Experience · Angel Nieto Garcia

Where I've worked

Jan 2026 — Present

San Jose, CA

▹Lead the Home, Shopping, and Rewards teams across Buy Now Pay Later, Analytics, Subscriptions, and PayPal+ in the UK, Germany, and US — coordinating 20 engineers across multiple teams in the Consumer organization.
▹Enhance core shopping flows in a large-scale consumer app, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.

Dec 2021 — Jan 2026

Cupertino, CA

▹Delivered production-critical features for iOS and watchOS used globally, including system-level gesture handling and sensor-driven user interactions.
▹Led performance optimization efforts, reducing memory (SRAM) usage by ~66% through data compression and architectural improvements.
▹Designed and implemented the Camera Control pocket-detection algorithm and SPI for iPhone 16 / 16 Pro, using a low-power solution derived from Always On Display analytics.
▹Implemented multi-process, multi-threaded sensor-fusion pipelines for a precision-finding feature (Apple Watch locating an iPhone via triangulation), reducing phone-search time by ~33%.
▹Built internal iOS and watchOS tools to visualize, log, and replay sensor/ML states, significantly improving debugging efficiency.

Sep 2015 — Jul 2019

Miami, FL

▹Led architecture for large-scale apps including Disney, Royal Caribbean, and United Airlines.
▹Managed Royal Caribbean's Core and Fun team (Augmented Reality and Games); built AR iOS experiences with ARKit, Vuforia, Unity, and Vision face recognition.
▹Built and maintained shared iOS frameworks used across multiple apps and teams, delivering payments, ticketing, AR, and UI systems.
▹Improved Disney's face-recognition algorithm runtime by up to 50% by replacing Core Image with the Vision framework.
▹Mentored junior and senior engineers and introduced automated/unit testing to reduce development and testing effort.

Jan 2021 — Dec 2021

Los Angeles, CA

▹Used computer-vision approaches to automate condition assessment of civil infrastructure systems for the Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
▹Built backend systems on AWS (server and serverless) plus Android & iOS apps and web crawlers to track user consent activity and geolocation for the Viterbi Wireless Devices and Systems Lab.
▹Created data-labeling and frame-extraction tooling with a Kivy GUI; generated custom datasets from processed video.

Nov 2019 — May 2021

Los Angeles, CA

▹Investigated and developed web crawlers, Android & iOS applications, and a back-end system built with AWS server & server-less services to scrap information from streaming services to keep track of user's consent activity and geolocation

May 2020 — Jul 2020

San Diego, CA

▹Developed an object-oriented framework to fetch and serialize data from embedded devices for visualization applications.
▹Built React data-visualization apps (schedule-conflict timelines and diff tools) to help engineers interpret data more efficiently.

2011 — 2015

Mexico City · Barcelona · San Diego

▹MercadoLibre — published Tu Carro (100k+ downloads in its first week) and supported MercadoLibre, an e-commerce app with 100M+ worldwide downloads.
▹Schibsted Media Group — built multi-country classified-media apps (25M+ downloads across Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Finland, and Chile).
▹Mobiik — shipped magazines, games, geolocation, and social apps plus tracking/monetization frameworks for iOS & Android.
▹Hewlett-Packard — managed Nextel 3G/GSM databases (Oracle 11g) and built internal automation tools in Java, Oracle, and SQL.