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Samuel Medina

I lead engineering teams and build scalable, cloud-based systems — from Laravel monoliths to Go microservices deployed on Kubernetes.

  • PHP
  • Golang
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
Portrait of Samuel Medina
$ ls ./projects

Featured projects

012022 – 2025

revu.com

VTWO Software — Senior Engineer

Problem: WIP

Outcome: Directed containerization and orchestration on GCP with Docker and Kubernetes for high availability, while running SCRUM delivery and mentoring the team on architecture and backend practices.

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • WordPress
  • React
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
022022 – 2025

Cars.com

Innova Solutions — Tech Lead

Problem: Cars.com's PHP platform needed to scale reliably across cloud infrastructure while a cross-functional team kept shipping new features on tight sprint cycles.

Outcome: Directed containerization and orchestration on GCP with Docker and Kubernetes for high availability, while running SCRUM delivery and mentoring the team on architecture and backend practices.

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • WordPress
  • React
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
032019 – 2022

Order My Gear

Lumina Software — Tech Lead

Problem: Order My Gear needed its e-commerce stack (WordPress and PrestaShop) to interoperate cleanly with custom back-end services, without slowing down feature delivery.

Outcome: Built Go microservices to bridge WordPress and PrestaShop, deployed scalable GCP infrastructure with Docker/Kubernetes, and designed CI pipelines that improved code quality and deployment speed.

  • Go
  • Laravel
  • PrestaShop
  • VueJS
  • ReactJS
  • GCP
  • Jenkins
042016 – 2019

Kavak AI / CEDIS

Savant AI — Director of IT

Problem: Vehicle entry/exit verification at the company's distribution centers (CEDIS) was a manual process that didn't scale with volume.

Outcome: Led 9 engineers building an AI-driven automation system combining IoT devices, computer vision, and machine learning, backed by AWS infrastructure and real-time data pipelines — cutting manual verification time by over 60%.

  • Golang
  • Python
  • PHP
  • TensorFlow
  • AWS
  • ESP32
$ cat ./experience.log

Experience

  1. 2025 – Present

    PHP Engineer — V.Two

    RevenueNetworks

    Senior backend developer and cross-functional team lead on RevenueNetworks, running agile delivery in Jira and mentoring the team on new, scalable features.

  2. 2022 – 2025

    Tech Lead — Innova Solutions

    Cars.com

    Led PHP/Laravel development for Cars.com, owning GCP infrastructure and Docker/Kubernetes deployments for a high-availability platform.

  3. 2019 – 2022

    Tech Lead — Lumina Software

    Order My Gear

    Directed full-stack delivery for Order My Gear, building Go microservices and CI pipelines connecting WordPress and PrestaShop.

  4. 2016 – 2019

    Director of IT — Savant AI

    Internal Tolling & Kavak AI Automation (CEDIS)

    Led a 9-engineer team building an AI/IoT automation system for distribution centers, reducing manual vehicle-verification time by 60%+.

$ ls ./certifications

Certifications

  • Google Cloud

    Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer(in progress)

  • Anthropic

    Claude Developer Foundations(in progress)

$ cat ./skills.json

Skills

  • PHP
  • Golang
  • JavaScript
  • Laravel
  • VueJS
  • ReactJS
  • WordPress
  • Amazon AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Git
$ mail --compose

Contact

The best way to reach me is by email or LinkedIn. I read everything that comes through.

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