Christian Chunga Bayas

Software Engineer

5+ years shipping payment systems, real-time platforms, and cloud-native architectures. From monolith-to-microservices migrations to leading engineering teams for US-based products. Currently building fintech infrastructure.

Guayaquil, Ecuador|Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas - ESPE

Experience

5+ years building software products.

Ótmow Fintech

Jul 2025 — Present

Remote

Full-stack Developer

Shuffle

Nov 2024 — Jul 2025

United States (Remote)

Engineer Lead

  • Led engineering area, managing architecture design and evolution for scalability and performance.
  • Defined technical strategies and product roadmap aligned with business goals.
  • Drove adoption of innovative solutions improving product stability and growth.

Shuffle

Dec 2023 — Nov 2024

United States (Remote)

Full-stack Developer

  • Built a real-time messaging module for seamless user communication.
  • Implemented payments and refunds system with secure integrations.
  • Automated key processes like scheduled message delivery.
  • Optimized system architecture for scalability and maintainability.

Shuffle

Sep 2023 — Dec 2023

United States (Remote)

Back End Developer

  • Designed scalable cloud microservices.
  • Optimized backend with database query improvements and caching.
  • Migrated monolith to microservices architecture.

Passes

Jul 2023 — Oct 2023

United States (Remote)

Full-stack Developer

  • Developed features across frontend and backend with Next.js, TypeScript and Node.
  • Improved user experience and integrated new platform capabilities.

Senseg

Jan 2023 — Jun 2023

Quito, Ecuador

Backend Developer

  • Implemented microservices with NestJS and Go, plus AWS serverless solutions.
  • Reverse-engineered third-party APIs for banking integrations.
  • Built web scraping tools for data collection and analysis.

Kruger Corp

Oct 2022 — Feb 2023

Quito, Ecuador

Technical Consultant

  • Outsourcing for La Favorita using Spring Framework, Angular, and JBoss.

Kushki

Nov 2021 — Oct 2022

Quito, Ecuador

Developer

  • Implemented and optimized payment flows using reactive programming.
  • Shipped Reconciliation and Refunds modules to production.

Safike

Jan 2021 — Nov 2021

Guayaquil, Ecuador

Analyst Developer

  • Led a 5-person team delivering key features on tight deadlines.

Skills

Technologies I work with daily.

TypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsNext.jsReacttRPCNestJSGoSpring BootAWSGCPPostgreSQLElasticSearchDockerMicroservicesServerless

Beyond Code

Black Duck Studio

Artistic and conceptual photography.

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