Summary
Christian Valdez is a senior software engineer with over a decade of enterprise experience building and operating high-throughput, resilient systems. He combines hands-on coding and architecture with agile/lean delivery, having led teams at ThoughtWorks and driven mission-critical payment processing systems that handled millions of transactions with sub-second responses. At Grainger he continues to blend integration, requirements analysis, and infrastructure-as-code practices to streamline delivery and reliability. Known for mentoring teams and advocating TDD, CI/CD, and automated non-functional testing, he brings startup-style agility to large organizations. He also has a track record of evolving processes—revamping hiring and Agile frameworks—to boost team productivity and align engineering with business constraints. Based in the United States, he pairs a strong technical breadth across languages and tooling with practical experience in system integration and project planning.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Florida International University
Spanish, English