
Tomás Guzmán
Software Engineer
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About
Software Engineer with 5 years shipping full-stack web applications end-to-end. Track record building enterprise-grade real-time communication platforms, integrating payment systems, and architecting multi-tenant B2B products.
Currently Founding Engineer at a live language-learning startup.
Core stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Stripe.
Experience
Founding Engineer
Talkive
- Shipped MVP to first paying customers in 3 weeks as one of two engineers, owning the platform service end-to-end (auth, Stripe billing, scheduling, admin/teacher/student portals).
- Integrated Stripe for subscription billing end-to-end (products, prices, checkout, and webhook handling), automating recurring revenue collection from day one.
- Made Stripe webhook handling idempotent: verified signatures with constructEvent and upserted payments and subscriptions on the unique Stripe invoice and subscription IDs, so retried deliveries cannot double-charge or duplicate rows.
- Cut admin list page latency from 2.3s to 230ms by collapsing a multi-join query from per-row roundtrips into a single optimized query, paired with debounced search for responsive filtering.
- Designed centralized authentication across two services: the main platform acts as identity provider, issuing JWTs consumed by a separate WebRTC classroom service. Session ownership, role checks, and user state live in a single source of truth.
- Built a timezone-aware teacher availability picker on a calendar grid with drag-and-drop, resize, and merge gestures for defining recurring weekly availability.
Software Engineer
OneMeta AI
- Built and maintained a real-time audio/video and speech-translation platform deployed at Tomball ISD and integrated with leading CCaaS providers (Genesys AppFoundry ISV partner, Five9 accredited integration), routing live translation across multi-tenant contact-center deployments.
- Built server-side datagrid (filter, sort, paginate) end-to-end; collapsed three duplicated list endpoints into a single isolated service following clean-architecture patterns and cut a 13-second dashboard query to 300ms.
- Built a cross-protocol call-greeting coordination module synchronizing translated greetings across PSTN (Vonage websocket + webhook) and SIP Hairpin call legs, so both parties heard their greetings in parallel in target language followed by a start-talk beep. Pre-warmed synthesized audio in memory and cached translated text for reuse, eliminating first-greeting silence and call asymmetry.
- Led frontend architectural overhaul: established MUI design system with tokens and per-tenant theming, migrated from heavy Redux to Easy-Peasy and Zustand for clearer state ownership, and introduced a typed AxiosRepository abstraction with reusable form and side-effect hooks. Started in VerbumMeetings, consolidated in VerbumCall, replicated in Verbum Agentis.
- Built and refined the meeting-room frontend (four switchable layouts, live captions, live transcript, in-room chat) supporting up to 20 concurrent participants in real-time translated sessions.
- Wrote unit tests covering SIP Hairpin phrase-management edge cases, contributed manual test plans executed by QA, and owned the frontend for call-level logging.
Software Engineer
Getback
- Integrated Transbank for payment and refund flows, plus Shopify and Magento APIs to sync product and variant catalogs into the returns-selection UI.
- Stabilized a legacy React frontend by refactoring 1500-line files into 150-200 line components, tokenizing colors, and correcting state-driven UI bugs across the returns flow.
Software Engineer
KPI Managers
- Built a multi-tenant PowerBI dashboard platform for B2B clients in construction and healthcare, with subdomain-based tenant separation (e.g., clinica.kpimanagers.com), admin/user role management, and reports embedded via the official PowerBI React client.
- Refactored a legacy Express.js + Handlebars codebase into a cleanly architected Express backend with a separated React frontend, following SOLID principles.
- Implemented Redis-backed session lock to enforce single-device login per user, with 5-minute inactivity auto-logout.
Software Engineer
CoinGroup
- Built TLM, a Binance-powered crypto trading interface: real-time price streaming, user-triggered orders, candlestick charts in Vue.js, and wallet integration.
- Authored a reusable Binance API wrapper abstracting the platform's awkward authentication and token flow, adopted by the company for downstream projects.
Projects
Zaria AI
PrivateMulti-channel sales agent in Python (LangChain, LangGraph, LangFuse). Tool calling for inventory lookup, lead capture, payment parsing via text and image OCR, and delivery/payment routing. Deployed as a Telegram bot.
Flowstate AI
PrivateScheduling agent in NestJS (LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith). Captures leads, generates work quotes and estimates, and books jobs through tool calls.