Vicente Plata Senior Software Engineering Lead

Software Engineering Specialist

x.AI

Nov 2025 - Current (9 months)

● Contribute to evaluation and improvement of AI-assisted coding capabilities through dataset curation, repo analysis, and agent benchmarking. ● Analyze open-source repositories to assess model reasoning, code modification accuracy, and tool-use effectiveness. ● Design Docker-based test environments, scripts, and changesets across multiple programming languages. ● Role expanded to include reviewing and validating evaluation work from other contributors, helping maintain accuracy, consistency, reliability, and high technical standards across coding-related benchmarking efforts.

Staff Software Engineer

Sep 2024 - Current (1 year 11 months)

● Led adoption of AI-driven agentic development workflows improving engineering velocity, code quality, and cross-team collaboration. ● Designed and built high-scale internal tools supporting thousands of agents and hundreds of thousands of daily content review actions, strengthening platform integrity and policy enforcement. ● Delivered full-stack solutions using React, TypeScript, Python, and modern DevOps practices to improve reliability, usability, and operational efficiency. ● Mentored engineers and partnered cross-functionally to identify shared infrastructure and productivity opportunities.

Staff Software Engineer

Weave Bio

Sep 2023 - Sep 2024 (1 year 1 month)

First Frontend Engineer hired to stabilize and scale AutoIND MVP, enabling contractor disengagement and supporting successful seed raise. Built AI-powered interfaces helping biopharma teams reduce IND drafting time by ~50%. Implemented AI agent integrations, document classification, and intelligent change suggestion workflows. Adapted SaaS platform for on-premises enterprise deployment. Established development strategy, design systems, and documentation standards.

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Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Utopia Labs

Aug 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 2 months)

Building on top of Gnosis SAFE (a multisig wallet for DAOs and other crypto organizations), I created experiences that allowed orgs to facilitate payments, categorize transactions and gain valuable insights on their spending. Some of my initiatives have included: • Created crypto and fiat payment forms, including recurring payments and transaction categorization, • Developed mechanisms for drafting, queueing, capturing signatures and executing or rejecting transactions (including a public view with limited data), • Implemented monetization and loginless providers / gating, • Created a custom transaction builder based on ABIs (smart contracts), • Implemented blockchain transaction simulation using the Tenderly API, • Organized and tra

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VP of Engineering & Founding Engineer

Runway Health

Mar 2022 - Aug 2022 (6 months)

As a VP of Engineering and Founding Engineer, I originally helped Runway on a part-time basis to assess, architect and build the teams and systems that would eventually become our full-service online travel clinic. I ended up joining full time when the time was right. In addition to managing a team of engineers and contractors, distributed through the US, Eastern Europe and Latin America, I interact with internal and external stakeholders to understand their requirements and opportunities, and translate them into build and growth actions and initiatives. Stakeholders include clinicians, marketing specialists, campaign experts, outreach and partner support teams, customer support, and the executive suite. I also help find eficiencies in th

Tech Lead, Senior Frontend Engineer

Shopify

Feb 2021 - Mar 2022 (1 year 2 months)

When the Shop Pay and Shop App teams merged, the Shop Pay lacked an expert in mobile development. And the Shop App team lacked an expert in payments and PCI-DSS compliance. So I joined first as an IC, then building a team, to bring both technologies together using technologies like Rails and React Native. For example: • Improving in-app checkout experiences, fine-tuning small wins and A/B testing the big ones: mobile accessibility improvements, conversion funnel optimizations, support for platform-specific features, product discovery, etc • Communicating Pay features within the app, by coordinating with technical stakeholders in other areas • Displaying and sharing our sustainability efforts, in app and on the web • Promoting the app

Senior Engineering Lead

hims & hers

Apr 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 11 months)

I was the main responsible for the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system of our telehealth offering, and one of the foundations in building the engineering team from 7 to 70+ members. Some of the most high-profile projects I led, included: • Primary Care in the context of COVID-19 • Spanish language visits • COVID Saliva Test Kits • Phone and Video Call synchronous consultations, expanding our offerings to the 50 US states • Antiviral treatments I worked with a geographically distributed team across North America, South America, and Europe. Our tech stack consisted of: • React with TypeScript • Redux + Saga • Redux-Saga • PostgreSQL / PostgREST • Node.js (for CI and CD) From a leadership perspective, my key activities includ

Tech Lead

Points International

Apr 2018 - Apr 2019 (1 year 1 month)

As Tech Lead for Points Travel, I helped build our platform, on-boarding new partners/tenants, and improving our product and team overall. From a tech standpoint, our platform mostly consists of: • React • Ruby on Rails • Postgres • AWS My personal achievements include implementing our monitoring and alerting strategy, our marketing data feed, our SOX and GDPR compliance mechanisms on a database level, pricing changes, audit and financial reports, and integrating security into the core of our development lifecycle, among other high-impact process-wise developments and methodologies. In addition to my Individual Contributions, I tapped on my past experience and helped our amazing team by: • Empowering developers in their professio

Software Engineer II

Microsoft

Sep 2012 - Apr 2018 (5 years 8 months)

• Started as an SDET in the Ofice 365 Security team, helping with penetration testing, data centre automation tasks, identity verification, etc. • Then, moved to MSN as an SDE, where I improved the accessibility of MSN for users with visual and physical disabilities (narrators, colour contrast, keyboard-based navigation) by applying best practices in accessible and assistive technologies oriented web development • Improved the mobile web MSN experience in areas such as article readers and slideshows – applied new designs that empowered the business to leverage the increase of mobile trafic, whilst analyzing the existence of reusable designs and components to minimize implementation costs • Cleaned up the current experience and de-clutte

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Support and outsourced contractor for

Jan 2003 - Jan 2012 (9 years 1 month)

including the Mexican Army, banks, telcos, travel startups among others. Thank you!

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