Ramon Nogueira

I lead the development of the back end that serves every request for Apple News. It was built on a previous system that I also worked on called CloudKit, resulting in delivery on a very ambitious schedule. I designed the serving back end and implemented it with another junior engineer, working closely with the teams building the offline aggregation pipeline and the team building the front end.

CloudKit is the serving and syncing back end for most of iCloud. It stores critical data for hundreds of millions of Apple users. I was a core team member that successfully delivered the initial version of CloudKit. CloudKit is available as an API for external developers to use as well.

The OpenCensus project is a Google Cloud effort to provide vendor-agnostic libraries for observability, and it was later renamed OpenTelemetry. I mostly worked on the OpenCensus Go library and contributed to the overall version design in other languages.

I designed and built Stripe's next-gen REST and GraphQL to gRPC API gateway in Java, proposed the detailed original design, and implemented most of the initial code before up-skilling the rest of my team on the project. This greenfield project took up most of my two years at Stripe and was successfully delivered to production. I collaborated with docs, SDK, and webhooks teams to provide an end-to-end developer experience based on declarative Protobuf-based IDL, which I designed. Also, I supported and maintained Stripe's world-class API frameworks in Java and Ruby and built developer tooling for APIs using Protobuf and Bazel.