About Eddy Lara

Designed comprehensive C4 architecture diagrams for the Product-Led Growth domain, establishing the first clear architectural model for the public marketing site, application trial experience, customer onboarding flows, A/B testing systems, and Billing services. Led training on Domain Driven Design across teams, trained architects and engineers, coached product trios, and reinforced shared language, bounded contexts, and strategic design practices. Authored and maintained Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to improve architectural transparency and governance. Architected and guided deployment of new backend applications using Humanitec on AWS Kubernetes. Leveraged AI tools such as Windsurf and ChatGPT to accelerate architectural design and improve developer productivity. Mentored engineering teams on Hexagonal Architecture, microservices patterns, and API First initiatives.

Developed and executed a comprehensive migration strategy to transition from a monolithic architecture to a microservices-based design. Orchestrated the formation of multiple stream-aligned teams, structured around bounded contexts. Architected and deployed an Anti-Corruption Layer (ACL) to integrate modern REST APIs with Indeed's legacy XML-based file upload system over FTP. Spearheaded the shift from a centralized data ingestion model to a decentralized, scalable framework by implementing Data Mesh principles. Led the abstraction of observability infrastructure through the implementation of OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector. Introduced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to automate the generation of job descriptions and interview questions. Collaborated to build AI Agents to streamline key recruiting and onboarding processes.

Built migration strategy for moving to a hybrid cloud from Private Cloud (Openstack) to Public Cloud (GCP). Led migration from .NET Framework to .NET Core. Guided the refactoring of applications to 12 factors for deployment to Kubernetes on GCP and Private Cloud. Designed symmetric encryption strategy with master Key Encryption Keys and rotating Data Encryption Keys. Worked with teams to build out design system allowing different suite of products to have a similar look and feel while being independent and autonomous. Introduced micro frontends using Custom HTML5 Elements.

Responsible for the technical vision of the team. Modeled and designed integrations with third party vendors using RESTful APIs, SOAP, webhooks and OAuth2. Unified identity solution so that all teams could be on one identity provider. Migrated from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes within private cloud. Worked with SREs to improve logging, monitoring and alerting as well as Disaster Recovery strategy. Designed micro frontend integration with Cronofy calendar system facilitating scheduling of interviews.

Worked closely with multiple teams to build integrations internally and externally. Mentored junior and mid-level engineers. Worked with architects and tech leads to improve architecture, adding new features as microservices instead of piling onto existing monolith. Introduced Docker to development team, cutting time to get developers up and running and shortening build times. Wrote 12 factor apps for container deployment, eliminating large amounts of VM provisioning code. Managed MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch clusters.

Developed and delivered new Recruiting application from Beta, which now has thousands of customers. Designed and developed solutions using Domain Driven Design. Coded front end and back end using C#, TypeScript, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, KnockoutJS, ReactJS, and Webpack. Worked on CI/CD using TeamCity, Chef and Ruby to deploy code to Private Cloud on Openstack. Built integrations with core HR domain using REST and Event Driven Architecture. Built REST services for vendors to integrate with the application.

Built new Performance Management web application to add to suite of HR and Payroll Software. Pioneered the use of Kanban to increase feature throughput. Developed using CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and ASP.NET Web Forms. Wrote unit tests using NUnit and automated UI tests using Selenium. Used Continuous Integration to build and run unit, integration and system tests. Started career working on legacy Recruiting web application, refactoring to a more modern web application using Model View Presenter pattern with Test Driven Development.