Richard Pillaca

Software engineer with hands-on experience in technologies such as Django, React, Next.js, relational databases, and others. I focus on improving user experience and code quality, and I apply best practices to create scalable and functional interfaces. Deploying a mobile app, optimizing workflows and developing a system end to end.

I'm currently expanding my knowledge in AI infrastructure and high-performance, robust engineering.

Tenacious.·Analytical.·Charismatic.
Richard Pillaca

📍Toronto, ON

My work

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Empeñalo — Fintech Marketplace
FULL STACK 2026Apr – May 2026

Empeñalo — Fintech Marketplace

Next.jsReactTailwindSupabaseVercelUpstash Redis

A Peruvian fintech marketplace where users pawn/secure items and receive multiple real offers from businesses.

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ScoutLane — Recruitment Platform
FULL STACK 2026Apr – May 2026

ScoutLane — Recruitment Platform

ReactNext.jsNode.jsPostgresAI Resume Parser

AI-powered recruitment pipeline for parsing resumes, tracking candidates, and managing hiring workflows

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ExamVault — Automated Exam Generation & Analysis
FULL STACKMay 2025 – Aug 2025

ExamVault — Automated Exam Generation & Analysis

PythonDjangoPostgreSQLReact.jsTailwind CSSREST API

Full-stack platform: automated exam generation, analytics dashboard, and grading pipeline processing 100,000+ student records.

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Bike Share Network Optimization
DATA SCIENCESep 2024 – Dec 2024

Bike Share Network Optimization

RRStudioigraphWard's ClusteringGraph TheoryPower BI

Where does a city's bike-share network actually break? I mapped 150K+ Mobi Vancouver trips as a living graph to find the hubs that hold it together — and the gaps that quietly cost it.

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Skills & Stack

Data & Analytics

Translating messy data into clean, automated reporting pipelines. I build solutions that replace hours of manual spreadsheet work with reliable refreshable reports.

Core Stack

SQLPower BI / DAXPython (Pandas, Numpy)Power Query / MExcel (VBA)

Software Engineering

Building full-stack applications with an emphasis on robust backends, continuous integration, and clean user interfaces.

Core Stack

PythonTypeScriptJavaReact / Next.jsDjango

Modeling & Research

Applying statistical methods and graph theory to uncover patterns. From analyzing 5,000+ codebases for technical debt to optimizing city-wide bike share networks.

Core Stack

Graph Theory (NetworkX)SciPyStatistical TestingGeopandas