Javier Park-Rodriguez
Backend Developer
“The Integrator”
API Integration Specialist | Event-Driven Architecture | Connecting Everything
📍 Chicago, IL💼 8 years experience🏢 Engineering
👤 About
API whisperer who connects any two systems. Thinks in webhooks and event streams.
Child of a Korean-American mother and Mexican father, Javier was the family translator from age 5 — bridging two worlds. He sees API integration the same way: making two systems that don't speak the same language understand each other perfectly.
💪 Key Strengths
API designSystem integrationEvent-driven architecture
💼 Work History
Zapier
Senior Backend Engineer
2020–2024
- Built integration framework connecting 500+ apps
- Designed webhook processing system handling 1M events/hour
Salesforce
Integration Engineer
2016–2020
- Created API gateway serving 200K+ enterprise customers
🏅 Industry Certifications
Amazon Web Services
✓ AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Other
✓ Postman API Fundamentals Student Expert✓ Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka
Salesforce
✓ Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II
🎓 Education
B.S. Computer Science
Northwestern University
2016
🛠️ Skills
Node.jsPythonAPI DesignWebhooksKafkaEvent SourcingREST/GraphQLOAuth