Walter Danilo Galante

Joined the team as Staff Engineer, in charge of scaling up and maintaining the core integrations. Then kickstarted the Developer Experience team.

• Migrated 150k+ accounts and 500k+ users from the in-house authentication system to a managed open-source solution with zero downtime. Owned it end to end: wrote the proposal, secured budget directly from the CTO, and led the execution.
• Founded and lead the backend community of practice, turning ideas from engineers across the org into delivered initiatives by organizing the work, securing capacity, and following through to completion. Built its centralized knowledge base, which feeds engineers' LLM sessions so learnings compound instead of being rediscovered.
• Introduced a 0-code service to handle Partner webhooks using the Inbox Pattern, relying on AWS cloud components. Achieved throughput of 40k RPM with 0% error rate and <1s latency upon first release.

Briefly joined a friend's young team of 3 engineers, to launch the company's prototype to a globally available AI product.

• Refactored Next.js navigation, queries on Supabase and Vercel deployment, to lower first contentful paint across the globe from >1500ms to ~500ms on average.

Successfully grew and led the Integrations domain, with over 20 people, splitting it into Channels, Ecommerce, and Phone to improve delivery speed, team cohesion and business impact.

• Phone: Transformed the product from a $500k/year loss to a $3M ARR product by restructuring its infrastructure and team dynamics.
• Channels: Scaled integrations for 16k+ merchants, implementing ETL microservices improving integration stability and scalability by 5x (measured on latency over traffic).
• Ecommerce: Expanded team maintaining Shopify integration (>$60M ARR), guiding migration to a Kafka-based pipeline. Built platform to enable AI Agents to execute e-commerce actions autonomously.

Spear-headed the company's adoption of Domain Driven Design practices. Led a cross-functional task force with external consultant to map domains and improve team boundaries.

Early joiner helping grow the company from a small team to multiple teams across locations. Designed the architecture and implemented the money movement system, led developer work and culture, and managed platform releases and maintenance.

Developed the initial consumer app, designed and implemented an IoT platform licensed to enterprise partners, won industry awards, and built the development team.

Extended a streaming platform with mobile apps and wrote integration plugins for CMS websites (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal).

Worked on web and mobile applications as a junior developer, adopting Agile methodologies and software design patterns.