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{
"name": "Juan García",
"role": "Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead",
"location": "Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪",
"experience": "20+ years in production systems",
"languages": ["English (Native)", "Spanish (Native)"],
"focus": ["Go", "TypeScript", "NestJS", "Next.js", "Microservices"],
"domains": ["Fintech", "Banking", "Regulated Industries"],
"currently": "Team Lead @ Infinity Pay Tech",
"side_quest": "Co-Founder & Go backend lead — Workmonitor (HR SaaS, workmonitor.io)",
"strengths": ["Legacy → Cloud-Native migrations", "Team mentoring", "End-to-end delivery"],
"linkedin": "juan-garcia-53480036"
}Senior engineer and team lead who has spent 20+ years shipping production-grade systems across Fintech, Banking and regulated environments in Ireland. I specialize in migrating legacy enterprise monoliths to modern cloud-native stacks, and in the pragmatic technical leadership that makes teams actually ship. Currently leading 5 engineers at Infinity Pay Tech while co-building a Golang-powered SaaS platform on the side.
Languages
Frontend
Backend
Databases
Cloud & Infrastructure
| Company | Role | Period | Sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infinity Pay Tech | Team Lead | 2025 → now | Fintech |
| Fidelity Investments | Senior Dev | Jan – Apr 2025 | Finance / AI |
| US Bank | Senior Dev | Sep – Dec 2024 | Banking |
| Central Bank of Ireland | Senior Dev | 2023 – 2024 | Regulation |
| Applus / NCT | Senior Dev | 2022 – 2023 | Gov Tech |
| An Bord Pleanála | Senior Dev | 2022 | Gov Tech |
| DXC Technology | Senior Dev | 2021 | Enterprise |
| Dell | Senior Dev | 2021 | Enterprise |
| Verizon Connect | Senior Dev | 2020 | Telecom |
| Electroroute (Mitsubishi) | Senior Dev | 2019 | Energy |
| TII | Senior Dev | 2018 – 2019 | Gov Tech |
| 🚀 Workmonitor (workmonitor.io) | Co-Founder / Go Backend Lead | 2021 → now | HR SaaS |
// Workmonitor — Work Social Network & HR platform (workmonitor.io)
package main
type Workmonitor struct {
Concept string // Work Social Network: HR tasks meet team transparency
Features []string // Leave management · Mileage · Team feed · Approve/Reject flows
MultiTenant bool // true — company email domain isolation
Pricing string // Free 3 months · $10/user/month
Backend string // Go — REST + gRPC APIs
EventBus string // Kafka (Franz-go)
Databases []string // PostgreSQL · MongoDB · ScyllaDB
Auth string // Entra ID + SSO
Billing string // Stripe
Infra string // Docker · Kubernetes-ready manifests
Since int // 2021
}Workmonitor makes HR tasks fun and efficient — employees request leave, log mileage and expenses through a social activity feed, keeping the whole team informed while keeping private matters private. Managers approve or reject requests inline with full conversation threads. Co-founded and built the entire Go backend from scratch. Registered company in Ireland.
| Strength | Detail |
|---|---|
| 🏗️ Architecture | Greenfield microservices, legacy → cloud-native migrations, monorepo setup |
| 👥 Leadership | Team Lead managing 5 engineers + cross-team coordination across 4 teams |
| 🚢 Delivery | End-to-end ownership: design → implementation → CI/CD → release |
| 🧪 Quality | TDD advocate — Cypress, Jasmine, Bruno CLI, integration test suites |
| 🔐 Regulated domains | Fintech, Banking, Central Bank, ESMA compliance — production-grade standards |
| 🌍 Languages | English (native proficiency) · Spanish (native) |
