Mauricio Zuniga

Full-Stack Engineer · Data Architect · AI Toolmaker
Portland, OR  ·  mz@mzlabs.llc  ·  LinkedIn
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Fire Map User Growth
Monthly Active Users — WFCA Fire Map
Daily Dispatch Recovery — Total Users
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Career Timeline
August 2023 — Present
Director, Digital Solutions
Western Fire Chiefs Association · Wilsonville, OR

Sole engineer responsible for WFCA's entire digital ecosystem.

WFCA Fire Map
Transformed a basic wildfire tracking tool into a high-demand wildfire intelligence platform serving 1M+ monthly active users — now ad-monetized and expanding coverage into Canada.
  • Grew from ~28K to 1M+ monthly active users in 6 months (Jan–Jul 2026) — peak month 1.45M
  • Reverse-engineered entire legacy app (Next.js, Mapbox GL JS, Redux, GeoServer, AWS RDS) with no documentation
  • Built satellite fire detection from 5 NASA FIRMS sensors via GeoServer MVT vector tiles — 10x performance
  • Engineered event-driven NOAA satellite integrations for real-time lightning and GOES fire detections
  • Unified 3 camera networks, wind flow animation (HRRR/GFS), weather layers — 32 map layer toggles
  • Built auto-heal monitoring: Lambda checks 21 pipelines every 15 min, auto-restarts, SMS/email alerts
  • Extended coverage into Canada and launched consent-mode ad monetization (GTM/AdSense) — 259K+ monthly ad impressions
  • 4-gate CI/CD pipeline; reduced deploy time from 20 min → 30 sec
Daily Dispatch
Architected an AI-first CMS on Django, then rebuilt the entire platform from scratch after a security breach took the vendor's site permanently offline.
  • Built WordPress Multisite faster than breached vendor could recover — restoring $700K+/yr jobs revenue from zero
  • 500+ automated RSS pipelines replacing $100K/yr third-party system — zero downtime since launch
  • Custom jobs board (57 E2E tests) with Square invoicing — $700K+ annual revenue
  • MailPoet newsletter: 40K subscribers, 20+ regional lists, 35 daily editions
  • 15+ custom WordPress plugins; daily DR to separate data center via GitHub Actions
June 2022 — August 2023
Enterprise Applications Manager
Good Feet NW | SE | Dakotas · Portland, OR
  • Built custom serverless Integration Platform (Python, Aurora MySQL, Talend, AWS Lambda/Glue/S3) — saved $80K+/yr
  • Won RFP against world-class consulting firm — architecture selected as model for next-gen corporate systems
  • Engineered foot traffic quantification and POS integrations across 30+ stores
  • Established marketing tracking strategy: GA, GTM, custom UTM protocols
November 2014 — June 2022 · 7 yrs 8 mos
CMD (Creative Media Development)
Portland, OR
Digital Solutions Director (2019-2022) Data Services Manager (2015-2019) Technical Director (2014-2015)
  • Architected analytics infrastructure for Fortune 500 clients (Intel, HP, Microsoft)
  • CI/CD via Jenkins; analytics portal on Laravel/Postgres with GA, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube APIs
  • Automated 20+ Linux servers; SQL Server SSIS ETL; auto-tracking JS via GTM and Tealium
  • Implemented Agile/Kanban; served as SCRUM master
July 2013 — November 2014
Technical Lead / Lead Developer
TrustCloud.com · Portland, OR
  • Proprietary APIs (Lexis Nexis, Backgroundchecks.com, PayPal) — first client: eBay Hire
  • Parallel distributed computing on AWS (Gearman) — weeks-long workload → 2.5 days
  • Managed dev team in India; 10 Ubuntu LAMP stacks on AWS
2000 — 2012
Earlier Roles
StellarActive · Clear Sky Innovations · Heritage Web Solutions · IT-Workforce · Nitroprint · Chaos Existence LLC
  • Full-stack dev, PM, and technical leadership across LAMP, .NET, and hybrid architectures
  • Key: InsureAudit (workers comp auditing, DB replication across 15+ nodes), POS systems, e-commerce
// open source
Side Projects

Agent Memory

Persistent cross-session memory for AI coding agents. Semantic + full-text hybrid search via PostgreSQL, pgvector, and local embeddings. REST API + MCP server.

Python FastAPI PostgreSQL pgvector MCP

Anvil

Local-first AI coding agent with 10-phase autonomous delivery pipeline. Multi-backend LLM support (local GGUF, OpenAI, Anthropic, vLLM, MLX). 1024+ tests.

Python FastAPI LangGraph LLM

Code Review Hooks

Cross-platform quality hooks for AI agents and git. Security scanning (OWASP), simplicity checks, naming conventions. Supports Claude Code, Codex, Gemini.

Python Node.js Git Hooks
// skills
Technical Skills

Languages

Python SQL JavaScript TypeScript PHP HTML/CSS C#

Frameworks

Next.js React Django Laravel Tailwind WordPress jQuery HTMX

Cloud / Infra

AWS Azure Google Cloud Cloudflare Docker GeoServer Mapbox GL JS GitHub Actions Nginx Apache Keycloak OAuth/SSO

AI / ML

Claude Code Codex Anvil (built) LM Studio Hugging Face pgvector sentence-transformers

Databases

PostgreSQL PostGIS PostgREST MySQL SQL Server pgvector SQLAlchemy

Data

ETL Pipelines Tableau Talend SSIS Apache Superset Trino NASA FIRMS NOAA Satellite GeoJSON/MVT

Tools / Integrations

Git Jira Asana Slack Teams GA GTM Google APIs Tealium Salesforce NetSuite Shopify Square Datorama
// clients
Notable Clients & Partners
Intel
SSO & Marketing
Microsoft
API Integrations
HP
Security & Automation
Bank of America
Analytics
IBM
Marketing Cloud
eBay
Trust & Background Checks
Jeld-Wen
Data & Analytics
// education
Education
University of Pennsylvania
BSE Systems Science and Engineering — Business and Information Systems Engineering
1995 — 1999
// contact
Get in Touch

Open to conversations about data platform work, systematic trading research, and AI tooling. The form reaches my inbox directly.

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