About Me

I am an engineering leader striving to be better everyday. My experience runs the gamut from startup to successful exits to IPOs, from inception to mature scale growth, at companies with a handful to thousands of employees.

Contact Details

Isamu Ybarra isamu.ybarra@gmail.com 469.nine.three.nine.6858

Technical Skills

Languages

C#, SQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python, Java

AWS

S3, Lambda, SES, SQS, Cloudfront

Frameworks

.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Vue.js, Angular.js, Entity Framework, Django

Tools

Visual Studio, VS Code, Azure DevOps, SQL Management Studio, IntelliJ, Git, Mercurial, Slack

Database

MSSQL, Oracle, Progress, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL

Work

Hoonuit

Product & Engineering April 2019 - Present

  • Joined Hoonuit through acquisition of Mizuni in April 2019 and managed team of 7 through transition for 9 months with 100% retention
  • Developed and maintained several data warehouse ETL pipelines to our core product using SQL and javascript and assisted in deployment at several multi-million dollar ARR district and state implementations
  • Introduced automation and GUIs for a file specification generation process (PDF and Excel), saving time, increasing quality, and allowing for long term scalability through simplification with SQL, Python, and Django
  • Interviewed, managed and mentored several interns and oversaw their subsequent projects resulting in the hiring of great talent
  • Managed and contributed to several code generation pipelines written in Python saving time and increasing quality
  • 3x Infinity Award Winner

Mizuni

Director of Product Innovation April 2013 - March 2019

  • Founding team member taking company from zero to 7 figure ARR
  • Led architecture and full stack development of our SaaS multi-tenant, multi-product data warehousing and analytics platform leveraging AWS, vue.js, javascript, Highcharts.js, C#, ASP.Net MVC/Web API, Entity Framework, and SQL Server
  • Modernized front end architecture from ASP.Net MVC and jQuery to Vue.js SPA and .NET Web API improving user experience, product agility, and maintainability by >50%
  • Role modeled clean code practices such as DRY, dependency injection, and unit testing, resulting in a simpler codebase, fewer bugs, better maintainability, and enhanced developer satisfaction
  • Architected and developed hybrid cloud messaging framework to facilitate communication between our on-prem customer environments and our corporate SaaS cloud by leveraging REST APIs, Amazon SQS (queues), and Amazon S3 (cloud storage)
  • Architected, developed and maintain the entire full-stack front-end of a program membership and summer school management system using ASP.NET MVC, Web API, javascript, Angular.js, and Dapper ORM accounting for over $300k in ARR
  • Oversaw developer hiring, mentoring, corporate website development, facilitated marketing efforts, and supplemented business development and sales
  • Mizuni was acquired by Hoonuit in April 2019

Previous roles March 2004 - March 2013

  • Developed and maintained on-prem n-tier web applications with ASP.NET, javascript, ADO.Net and SQL Server
  • Created a K-12 assessments analytics application that allowed analysis of over 50 test types and 100s of measures with filtering and slice and dice capabilities
  • Managed data warehouse projects from implementation to go-live with >95% customer satisfaction and retention
  • Delivered training sessions on core analytics product to hundreds of users
  • Developed proprietary integration engine ETL for multiple student information systems with SQL and C# against MSSQL, Oracle, Progress and DB2 databases
  • Developed dozens of mission critical SSRS and Crystal Reports for K-12 districts ranging in size from 1k-70k students

Education

Texas A&M University - College Station

B.S. Electrical Engineering May 2002