Jorge Ramírez Serrato
Senior Software Engineer transforming ideas into reality
Intro
Senior Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable, maintainable full-stack systems. Background in .NET, now specializing in Node.js and TypeScript. Experienced in developing developer-facing tools, APIs, frontend interfaces and integrations in modern, cloud-based product environments. Strong collaborator with a product-focused mindset and ability to leverage AI tooling for faster, higher-quality delivery.
Experience
Ready Player Me
Senior Product Engineer
2023 - 2025
- • Developed a monetization storefront enabling partners to sell and manage in-game avatar assets, including inventory management and webhook events.
- • Launched PlayerZero, an avatar collectibles platform, implementing social features such as user profiles, avatar galleries, and a rewards system to increase engagement and retention.
- • Contributed to the design and launch of an experimental gaming platform through rapid MVP development and cross-functional collaboration.
- • Built and extended public developer APIs, adding new endpoints and improving documentation to support custom client integrations.
Veriff
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2019 - 2023
- • Built and owned core end-user verification features, including continuous verification flows, mobile handover, barcode extraction, proof-of-address verification and more, which drove improvements in E2E conversion.
- • Collaborated with AI/ML teams to integrate real-time capture feedback, document detection, and liveness verification, focusing on reliability and performance.
- • Led a full rewrite of the end-user ID verification platform from a legacy Aurelia and Node.js stack to modern React and TypeScript, improving maintainability and development velocity.
- • Designed and improved data pipelines between client-side capture (image, audio, video) and backend AI processing services.
- • Exposed key end-user capabilities through the public API, enabling clients to build custom verification flows.
- • Implemented platform improvements such as i18n infrastructure, reusable backend SDKs, and enhanced analytics pipelines.
Jobbatical
Full-Stack Engineer
2017 - 2019
- • Built core product features such as candidate pre-screening and expanded CV data collection, improving both recruiter and candidate experiences.
- • Contributed to a full site redesign, working closely with design and product to improve UI, UX, and overall performance.
- • Helped evolve the platform architecture by introducing an event-driven design and breaking down a monolithic application into microservices.
- • Supported infrastructure modernization by containerizing services and contributing to the transition to Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Evercheck
Technical Lead
2016 - 2017
- • Grew and led a team of three engineers building two new products integrated with the core HR platform.
- • Owned technical architecture and delivery of EverCheck Wallet and EverCheck Education.
- • Designed and implemented microservices for authentication, secure storage, and data processing using Node.js and AWS.
- • Acted as early adopter of Node.js and React, supporting company-wide transition from .NET.
- • Mentored junior developers and delivered internal technical talks.
Evercheck
Full-Stack Engineer
2013 - 2016
- • Implemented new product features including compliance data sources, employee document management, and third-party HR integrations.
- • Contributed to a major web application redesign and rearchitecture using modern SASS, Knockout.js and a custom server hydration framework.
- • Played a key role in migrating the platform from a monolith to microservices, enabling 5× user growth.
- • Led complete database migration from Oracle 10 to Oracle 12, improving data integrity and query performance.
- • Automated data extraction through web scraping to expand license verification coverage.
Zeus Tecnología
Junior Software Engineer
2012 - 2013
- • Developed a web-based POS system for the hospitality industry.
- • Assisted in migrating a legacy desktop application to a web-based platform.
- • Owned end-to-end development of assigned features using ASP.NET MVC, Bootstrap, jQuery, and SQL Server.
Skills
General
Front-end development Back-end development System Design Database design API design Event-driven architecture
Languages
TypeScript JavaScript SQL C# Golang
Frontend
React Next.js Web APIs WebRTC CSS Tailwind Astro
Backend
Node.js Express Nest.js PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis RabbitMQ
DevOps
Docker Kubernetes AWS CI/CD Terraform
Other
Productivity tools Mentoring
Projects
Tallinn Transport Raycast Extension
TypeScript React Raycast API
Raycast extension to get public transport info for Tallinn, Estonia
Terminal CV
TypeScript React Ink Bun
Interactive terminal-based CV built with React Ink