Miguel González López
Lead Systems Architect & Staff Software Engineer
About
I'm a Lead Systems Architect & Staff Software Engineer with a passion for building high-scale distributed systems and high-impact product experiences. With over a decade of experience, I specialize in the intersection of architectural excellence and rapid feature delivery.
I specialize in architecting production-grade systems that handle 25M+ requests daily, designing Zero Trust networking environments, and driving technical modernization efforts that scale both systems and engineering organizations.
My experience ranges from microservices and monorepo architecture to AI-driven feature integration and revenue-focused product engineering.
🔹 Core Expertise:
I specialize in architecting production-grade systems that handle 25M+ requests daily, designing Zero Trust networking environments, and driving technical modernization efforts that scale both systems and engineering organizations.
My experience ranges from microservices and monorepo architecture to AI-driven feature integration and revenue-focused product engineering.
🔹 Core Expertise:
- Distributed Systems & Scale: Architecting platforms handling 25M+ requests/day, path-based routing, and high-performance Go APIs
- Infrastructure & Security: Zero Trust Networking (Tailscale), AWS Cloud Architecture (EC2, ELB, Aurora, S3), and Docker containerization
- Product Engineering & Revenue: Scaling revenue through optimized checkout flows (Stripe), A/B testing, and AI-driven features (AmGPT)
- System Modernization: Leading transitions from legacy stacks (PHP/AngularJS) to modern architectures (Go/React 19), and monorepo unification
- DevOps & Observability: Engineering automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Ansible) and deep observability (New Relic, CloudWatch)
Languages
Professional Experience
AdaptedMind
Halo & Mario Kart God
Lead Systems Architect
Jan 2021 - Present
Proud to be part of a lean, high-performing team of 5 engineers powering AdaptedMind — an edtech platform with over 25 million requests/day. I lead architectural and infrastructure initiatives that keep the system fast, scalable, and resilient.
Focus: System Health, Scale, Infrastructure
Focus: System Health, Scale, Infrastructure
- Architected and maintained a production-grade platform with ~6,000 RPM backend/API load and total ~25M daily requests across frontend, backend, and CDN, handled through AWS ELB, Cloudflare, and EC2
- Designed path-based traffic routing (Next.js vs Go APIs) with Cloudflare → AWS ELB → containerized services
- Led and architected the technical unification of mobile and web codebases to a single monorepo architecture
- Led the implementation and management of Tailscale (Zero Trust Networking), replacing traditional VPNs to secure developer access to production and staging environments
- Deployed services via Docker, GitHub Actions, and Ansible into EC2, reducing manual ops and improving deployment consistency
- Owned integration of Redis (MemoryDB), Aurora PostgreSQL, and Cloudfront/Cloudflare CDN to improve latency and scale
- Built observability pipelines with structured JSON logs, Cloudwatch, and New Relic with real-time alerting
- Scaled the application to support at least 10x the users due to COVID-19 demand
- Migrated platform from PHP, Angular and MySQL to Golang, React and PostgreSQL
Staff Software Engineer
May 2019 - Present
Focus: Product Development, Feature Delivery
- Payments & Revenue: Implemented Stripe Checkout Elements and engineered new cancellation flows and checkout variations to support key product initiatives
- Frontend Modernization: Drove modernization efforts by migrating from MobX to Zustand and TanStack Query, alongside upgrading systems to React 19
- AI Integration: Maintained and integrated internal AI-driven tools (AmGPT) and explored deploying AI-based features into user-facing product areas
- Experimentation: Engineered A/B testing and experimentation setups, including building specialized endpoints, redirect flows, and email experiments
- User Auth & Flows: Developed and refined user authentication flows, including refresh token systems and exploring new auth contexts
- Product Enhancement: Led product development for new animated subjects "Reading" and "Super skills" and developed new "Math" algorithms and video problem types
Senior Software Engineer
Rocket Lawyer
Age of Empires 2 King & Overwatch Champion
May 2014 - May 2019
Key Achievements:
- Increased business revenue by 18% through mobile-responsive development and optimization
- Achieved 23% conversion rate increase through strategic mobile implementation
- Built scalable E-Commerce platform and integrated enterprise systems (Salesforce, Marketo)
- Implemented automated testing and CI/CD processes improving deployment reliability
Core Technical Skills
Infrastructure & DevOps
Backend Development
Frontend & Full-Stack
Cloud & AWS Services
Education
B.S. Information Technology and Communications Engineer
ITESM Campus Saltillo (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
2007 - 2012
Professional ID: 7520188
Score: 97/100 (GPA 4.0)
Score: 97/100 (GPA 4.0)
Academic Achievements
Academic Excellence
2008 - 2012
- [August 2012] CENEVAL Diploma with "Leading" Result in all areas of Computer Science exam
- [May 2012] Honorable Mention of Excellence (Score 97)
Notable Projects
High-Scale EdTech Infrastructure Architecture
AdaptedMind Architecture
2019 - Present
Architectural Achievement:
- Designed and implemented infrastructure handling 25M+ daily requests with 6,000 RPM backend load
- Built containerized microservices architecture using Docker and AWS ECS
- Implemented advanced traffic routing with Cloudflare → AWS ELB → containerized services
- Created comprehensive observability with structured logging, New Relic, and real-time alerting
Personal Engineering Portfolio (migolo.net)
Personal Project
Ongoing
- Built with modern Astro framework showcasing high-performance full-stack capabilities
- Implemented responsive design with advanced CSS and WCAG-compliant accessibility
- Integrated automated CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions with PDF generation