Software Engineer

Jose
Suarez-
Rodriguez

Building reliable, well-crafted software at scale. Stanford CS — San Francisco.

"Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost."

Go NodeJS Python distributed systems Stanford CS
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About Me

Hello! My name is Jose Suarez-Rodriguez. I'm a software engineer based in San Francisco, CA. I currently work for Bytedance/TikTok as a backend engineer.

Before that I worked at several small to mid sized startups in the Bay Area.

Building reliable, well-crafted software at scale. Stanford CS — San Francisco.

Currently interested in

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The Work

Jul. 2020 – Present
Software Engineer
TikTok · San Jose, CA
  • Led Auto-Translation for Explore Feed — increased translated post rate from 0% to 93%, driving +1.7% Play Time and +2.8% Enter Profile rate.
  • Delivered lightweight data payloads reducing p99 latency from 530ms to 360ms, increasing new content view rate from 74% to 82%.
  • Built end-to-end Photo Search Signals Pipeline (Airflow → Kafka → Redis), improving For You page recommendations and high-quality post creation.
  • Built a generalized case review system with random sampling across the TikTok Photo-Text ecosystem, LLM-based analysis, and a no-code interface for PMs, engineers, and ops teams.
  • Led technical design for Non-Personalized Feed (EU/CA U18 regulatory compliance) and WCAG accessibility for Alternate Text on Photos.
Feb. – Apr. 2020
Software Engineer
Roofstock · Oakland, CA
  • Enhanced internal underwriting software used by real estate analysts, built on .NET / C#.
  • Implemented self-service market floor rate setting via Razor pages, eliminating a company-wide engineering bottleneck.
  • Built API microservices with the Data Science team for real estate occupancy classification.
Sep. 2018 – Dec. 2019
Software Engineer
Datacoral · San Francisco, CA
  • Implemented and maintained APIs and services for a NodeJS-based data processing platform.
  • Developed custom file parsers for data ingestion and a new connector to ingest Outreach data into customer warehouses.
  • Built platform functionality in AWS Lambda; handled on-call engineering and production debugging.
Jun. – Oct. 2017
Software Engineer Intern
Proxoshop · San Diego, CA
  • Developed native iOS application with REST API authentication and MongoDB-backed grocery list functionality.
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The Education

Sep. 2014 – Jun. 2018
B.S. in Computer Science
Stanford University · Stanford, CA
  • Information Track — synthesizing topics across CS that pertain to creating, processing, and understanding digital information.
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The Projects

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Fantasy Football AI
ML-powered lineup optimizer — constraint satisfaction model for daily fantasy sites.
Python ML CSP
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NBA React Native
Score checking app with game stats, standings, and Redux state management.
React Native Redux JS
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AR Pacman
Augmented reality Pacman using real-world GPS location, OpenStreetMap, and 3D model rendering.
React Native AR OpenStreetMap
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The Stack

Languages Go, NodeJS, Python, Java, C#
Infrastructure MySQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS Lambda, Airflow
Patterns Microservices, RPC, API Development, Distributed Systems
Tools Git, React Native, .NET
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Get in Touch

Open to interesting conversations — work, projects, or otherwise.

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