Jesus ManuelHernandez Zozaya

About Me

Professional Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   May 2026 - Present

   Gigantic Playground

   Technical owner of the analytics platform, leading architecture, design review, and delivery for the Fleet Platform System.

   • Architected the company's first analytics platform from the ground up - event taxonomy, ingestion pipeline, data model, and reporting layer - turning open-ended business questions from leadership into a durable technical foundation.
   • Authored the high-level design and drove it through formal HLD review with engineering and business stakeholders, establishing the design-review bar the team now follows and de-risking scope before implementation started.
   • Owned stakeholder alignment across the organization - gathering requirements from product and business owners, negotiating priorities, and communicating tradeoffs and progress to non-technical audiences.

   Technologies:

   • AWS
   • BrightSignOS
   • HTML
   • JS

2. Member of Technical Staff 1

   Apr 2023 - Feb 2026

   PayPal

   Member of Technical Staff and lead on the Digital Wallet team, overseeing card management, bank linking, and fund transfers related operations for PayPal's 400M+ global user base.

   • Led the Digital Wallet team's integration into PayPal's federated super graph architecture, powering the next-generation iOS and Android app for 400M+ users. Served as team focal point across principal architects, directors, product, and design. Drove adoption of a server-selected components pattern that reduced data-fetching latency by 2x, guiding 20+ engineers and team leads through the implementation.
   • Engineered the GraphQL layer and Next.js UI flows for a confidential next-generation in-device wallet initiative targeting a tier 1 software company. Delivered the end-to-end card provisioning experience including security compliance flows with Visa and Mastercard, enabling users to add and manage cards within the device wallet.
   • Co-led the rebuild of PayPal's global card-add experience on web, delivering a plug-and-play architecture used across all markets with 2x performance improvement.
   • Architected the client-side and API layer for Money Pools, a cross-functional fund-sharing product that drove +$30M in Total Payment Volume.

   Technologies:

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • NextJS
   • GraphQL
   • Apollo
   • Redux
   • NodeJS
   • Jenkins
   • GitHub

3. Front End Tech Lead

   Mar 2021 - Apr 2023

   AutoZone

   Owned frontend engineering decisions for the Customer team on autozone.com - architecture of new features, release planning, and stakeholder communication.

   • Designed and developed with the customer team, the frontend implementation of the key products recommendation feature inside a product details page. This feature increased weekly sales by 20%.

   Technologies:

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • NextJS
   • Redux
   • NodeJS
   • TanStack Query
   • Jenkins
   • GitLab

4. Systems Engineer / Assoc

   Aug 2020 - Apr 2023

   AutoZone

   Built and enhanced complex frontend flows for autozone.com across sign in, create account, rewards program, and orders history, and led the profile page refactor - reducing code complexity, making it mobile first, and increasing load speed.

   • Refactored a whole suite of react components to use the hook pattern, reducing complexity, moving away from class components, removing boilerplate code, and reducing overall file size.

   Technologies:

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • NextJS
   • Redux
   • NodeJS

5. Software Developer

   Jun 2018 - Aug 2020

   Ellucian

   Built custom UI interfaces and backend services for web-based applications.

   • Implemented and contributed to a proprietary React Component Library (based on Material UI) and integrated a complete proprietary Design System, which included a theme palette, images, and wording guides.
   • Helped improve the frontend development flow around code transpilation with webpack and linting enhancements for standardization.

   Technologies:

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • ASP.Net MVC 5
   • SQL Server
   • Jenkins

Education