Miguel Cazares
Senior Mobile Engineer — 13 yrs iOS / Android · 7+ yrs owner ShipStation Mobile
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://miguelengineer.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cazaresm/
Phone: (830) 734-3376
Core Skills
- iOS and Android — Objective-C, Swift, Java
- React Native — JavaScript and CodePush OTA
- Push notifications architecture — APN and FCM
Work Experience
SHIPSTATION
Product Owner & Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead) | Jan 2019 - Jul 2025
- Scaled ShipStation Mobile to 58k monthly active users - 42k iOS, 16k Android
- Maintained >99.99% crash-free on iOS and 99.84% on Android
- Boosted iOS from 2.3 to 4.7 stars
- Drove Android from 2.5 to 4.3 stars
- Overhauled analytics & crash pipeline - saving $50k/yr and slashing incident-to-deploy to 1 hr
- Upgraded Android & FCM SDKs and merged backends with zero-downtime rollout
SHIPSTATION
Senior Software Engineer | Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
- Improved Android crash-free rate from 80.2% to 97.6% in under one year
WAYBETTER
Senior Software Engineer | Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
- Introduced CodePush in React Native, enabling instant over-the-air updates and rollbacks
SHIPSTATION
Senior Software Engineer | Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
- Built iOS app from zero to production in 4 weeks, in tandem with co-founder on Android
EAGLEEYE NETWORKS
Software Engineer | Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
- Owned iOS app for real-time video surveillance at an early-stage startup
SPEAKWRITE
Software Engineer | Dec 2011 - Feb 2014
- Owned iOS and Android audio recording/dictation apps as well as full-stack engineering
Education
B.S. Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude - Texas State University
GPA: 3.87, Dec 2011