# Cristian Deluxe — Staff Software Engineer

> Staff-level Software Engineer building and operating production systems for
> Fortune 500 companies, SaaS startups, and government workloads. Based in
> Cáceres, Spain (CET), fully remote, with strong overlap across US time zones.
> Open to Staff / Senior Staff roles and long-term contracting engagements
> (contractor or EOR).

Core stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL),
GCP/GKE, Kubernetes/Helm. Deep experience with authentication (OAuth, JWT,
PKCE), payments (Stripe), search (Elasticsearch), and AI-assisted business
workflows.

Contact: me@cristiandeluxe.dev

## Case studies

- [Alaska Airlines — Staffbase engineering](https://cristiandeluxe.dev/work/alaska-airlines/): Custom Staffbase products for a 30K+ employee platform — enterprise search, communications, recognition, and training workflows.
- [Atmos Advisor](https://cristiandeluxe.dev/work/atmos/): Gamified training that onboarded 30,000+ Alaska Airlines employees onto a new loyalty program before public launch.
- [Kitco](https://cristiandeluxe.dev/work/kitco/): Frontend and reliability work across services supporting 24M annual users and 372M sessions.
- [InteliFactu](https://cristiandeluxe.dev/work/intelifactu/): AI invoice-processing SaaS — OCR pipeline, multi-tenant architecture.
- [DameTicket](https://cristiandeluxe.dev/work/dameticket/): Ticketing SaaS running in production.
- [Platform delivery](https://cristiandeluxe.dev/work/platform-delivery/): Kubernetes/Helm platform engineering — Drupal, Solr, and CI/CD pipelines on GKE.

## Pages

- [Home](https://cristiandeluxe.dev/): Overview, selected work, skills, contact.
- [About](https://cristiandeluxe.dev/about/): Background, outcomes, languages, what I'm looking for.
- [Working with me](https://cristiandeluxe.dev/working-with-me/): Engagement models, timezone, rates, process.
- [Uses](https://cristiandeluxe.dev/uses/): Tooling and setup.

## Profiles

- [GitHub](https://github.com/CristianDeluxe)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristiandeluxe/)