Erick Samaniego

Mexico City, Mexico · January 2023 – Present

I lead the full-stack Zecommerce team, defining the technical strategy and architecture for our e-commerce platform.

• Deployed an LLM-powered sales assistant using Python, significantly increasing sales through optimized product offers.
• Architected and delivered AI features, including a personalized quiz and a RAG model for product review summarization.
• Led the strategic migration from Contentful to Builder.io, developing custom API integrations that dramatically increased marketing team autonomy.
• Championed backend and SEO initiatives that improved key page rankings from 20th to a consistent top-7 position on Google.

Mexico City, Mexico · September 2021 – December 2022

Focused on the core financial and operational microservices, designing high-availability systems to support critical business functions.

• Architected a core microservice using Flask to handle transactions from multiple payment providers reliably.
• Implemented an event-driven integration with Frappe-ERP using RabbitMQ to ensure reliable financial data synchronization.
• Developed core accounting modules that automated the issuing of complex sales and foreign trade invoices.

Mexico City, Mexico · May 2020 – September 2021

Developed backend services for a critical urban mobility platform used by multiple state governments in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Built and maintained APIs using Python (FastAPI, Flask) to process and serve pandemic-related mobility data.
• Designed and implemented ETL pipelines with Airflow to ingest, transform, and load data from external sources into PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
• Containerized application components with Docker for deployment on AWS EC2, ensuring a scalable and maintainable infrastructure.

Mexico City, Mexico · June 2018 – May 2021

Contributed to the development of new platform modules, focusing on database integration and backend services.

• Implemented a Couchbase database connection to enable real-time data synchronization between the backend (Django) and mobile devices.
• Developed and maintained core backend modules for a forms-as-a-service platform, working with PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Managed application deployment using Docker Swarm.