Professional experience

Jesús Carlos Acosta Rocha

AI Engineer at Zillow and technical founder

I build and operate production systems across real estate, education, healthcare, commerce, and industrial software. My work covers applied AI, LLM workflows, retrieval, evaluation, observability, asynchronous processing, and cloud infrastructure.

2026 - Present

Zillow

AI Engineer

Building and operating production AI systems inside Zillow's engineering organization.

  • Applied AI systems
  • Product integration
  • Evaluation and reliable delivery
  • Production software engineering

2024 - 2026

McGraw Hill

Software Engineer, AI

Built and operated AI assistants for instructors and students across enterprise education platforms.

  • LLM workflow orchestration
  • FastAPI and Celery backends
  • LangSmith observability
  • Kubernetes on AWS and Azure

2022 - 2024

Cornershop by Uber / Uber

Software Engineer L4

Built distributed systems for marketing, search, recommendations, and retention at marketplace scale.

  • Up to 5M emails per country
  • Django and Celery
  • Elasticsearch
  • Personalized recommendations

2021 - 2022

Cemex

Software Engineer

Turned ML models and data pipelines into reproducible services for concrete-plant operations.

  • 7 countries across 2 continents
  • MLOps
  • Databricks
  • Kubernetes and Azure

2020 - 2022

Momenry

Software Engineer & Backend Tech Lead

Led backend architecture and APIs for mobile augmented-reality experiences at an early-stage startup.

  • Backend technical leadership
  • Django, Python, and Celery
  • APIs for AR experiences
  • Product and investor demos

2019 - 2021

Softtek

Software Engineer

Automated API and web testing to improve coverage and delivery reliability.

  • 300+ API tests
  • 53 end-to-end tests
  • Python and C#
  • Selenium

2018 - 2019

Municipal Government

Head of Innovation

Designed and operated a platform for tracking public works and institutional goals.

  • 100 government users
  • Deployed in 2 cities
  • Django REST and Angular
  • AWS operations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering

Autonomous University of Sinaloa, 2019

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