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Cesar Bejarano
From Costa Rica 07:40 AM (GMT-06:00)
$70/hr or $120,000/yr

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Member since May 2026

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Staff Software Engineer

AI-native engineer
Available for hire
Years of experience
14+ years
Experience level
Staff
Available for
Full-time, Part-time, Contract
Available from
23 Jun 2026

Staff-level Full-Stack Engineer and Technical Leader with 16+ years of experience delivering scalable SaaS products, modern web applications, and enterprise platforms for US-based companies and startups. Strong background in Ruby on Rails, React, Python/FastAPI, cloud platforms, and modern software architecture. Experienced leading distributed engineering teams, modernizing legacy systems, mentoring developers, and driving AI-assisted engineering workflows using tools such as Claude and GitHub Copilot.

Employment History

Staff Software Engineer at Growth Acceleration Partners 2009 - 2026
Led architecture decisions, technical planning, and software delivery across 15+ enterprise and SaaS projects, supporting distributed teams of up to 8 engineers across the US, LATAM, and Europe with biweekly releases and long-term client engagements. • Conducted 100+ technical interviews and mentored engineers across distributed teams through code reviews, architecture guidance, and engineering best practices, contributing to hiring and onboarding throughout a 16-year career. • Delivered internal AI enablement training sessions for 15+ engineers, helping integrate Claude and GitHub Copilot into daily software development practices and achieving productivity improvements of 50–70% in certain development tasks. • Led stabilization efforts for a critical enterprise application, reducing a backlog of 200+ production-impacting bugs to zero — significantly improving platform reliability and client confidence. • Optimized a large-scale ETL workflow, reducing execution time from 11 hours to 1.5 hours (86% improvement) through query optimization and parallel processing strategies. • Integrated AI-assisted development practices into daily engineering workflows, achieving productivity improvements ranging from 50% to 70% in certain development tasks and feature implementations.

Education

B.S. Software Engineering at Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica 2000 - 2007