MIGUEL CAZARES
Senior Mobile Engineer

Contact
- Email: contact@miguelengineer.com
- Website: https://miguelengineer.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cazaresm/
- Phone: (830) 734-3376

Summary
Senior Mobile Engineer specializing in React Native, iOS, and Android. End-to-end ownership from architecture to delivery, stability, performance, and CI/CD.

Work Experience

CAZARES SOFTWARE LLC
Founder / Principal Engineer | Sept 2025 - Present
- Engineered end-to-end karaoke system: from search to YouTube video in 30 seconds
- Integrated CI/CD for miguelengineer.com (auto-deploy on merge to main)

SHIPSTATION
Senior Mobile Engineer and Technical/Product Team Lead | Feb 2015 - Aug 2025
- Led 5-person team (3 engineers) supporting 70k+ MAU and 12M+ screen views per month
- iOS 2.5 to 4.7 stars (99.9% crash-free); Android 2.1 to 4.3 stars (99.8% crash-free)
- Blocked Auth0 account takeovers during sustained attacks, preventing $1.5M+ losses
- Re-architected push notifications: backend, iOS, Android - 3 deployments, 0 incidents

REVLEND
Technical Co-Founder | Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
- Co-founded B2B BNPL company; architected and built the MVP
- Built a shared front-end across web + mobile using React Native Web
- Implemented authentication on GCP using Firebase

WAYBETTER
Senior Mobile Engineer | Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
- Unified 8 mobile apps into a shared React Native codebase
- Implemented CodePush OTA updates to accelerate release cycles

EAGLEEYE NETWORKS
Software Engineer | Feb 2013 - May 2014
- Slashed video start time from 5600ms to 72ms (78x faster, 98.7% reduction)
- Built end-to-end camera setup + calibration flow
- Owned iOS video surveillance app from architecture to release

SPEAKWRITE
Software Engineer | Dec 2011 - Mar 2013
- Drove iOS + Android engineering for a secure audio recording platform
- Delivered Bluetooth + high-quality recording/playback
- 4-person team; contributed across the stack (frontend + backend)

Skills
- Mobile: iOS, Android, React Native
- Languages: Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, TypeScript
- Platform: Auth0, APNs, FCM, LaunchDarkly, Firebase
- CI/CD and Quality: GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Appium, Crashlytics

Education
B.S. Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude
Texas State University