@erikalmaraz_
Senior Software Engineer! 🧑💻❤️
Hello! I'm Erik Almaraz 🫰
I’m a Senior Software Engineer with roughly +9 years of professional experience* even though 15 years have passed already since I wrote my first line of code that btw... It was cloning a video game at the age of 10.
I’ve been developing products people love (Like everyone 🙄) as an individual contributor and also as a manager, either on early stage startups with teams of 10 people and on solid companies with +200 people.
In the other hand... I have a tech community with +100k followers in social media and couple of side projects like Wisel (Learn a new language with AI) & Eat & Cheers (A ghost kitchen based in Mexico City).
* Professional experience stands for... Since someone decided to start paying me to do that.
Relevant Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Gohoken.com - Currently working here
I've helped to build and launch the first version of the product, a hotel exchange where people can buy, sell, and TRADE their rooms for the most popular events around the world.
I've helped to grow the engineering team, participating actively in the recruitment process of new employees.
We've built our own design system and library of components using react, storybook, vanilla extract, and other technologies, to help the team create things as fast as possible and with the high quality as possible.
Technical Lead
Homie.mx
I participated in guiding, mentoring, and leading a group of devs (10) to the company goals!
I was part of the team in charge of reviewing the quality of the products of the company that were developed and designed by 3rd companies like software factories. Reviewing the code, good practices, scalability, and other considerations.
I was in charge of the development of our design system and our components library that was deployed to NPM, taking decisions on the stack we were using, architecture, and the way the components were working.
Lead Frontend
Recaudia.com
I was in charge of everything related to the Frontend things in the company, and I was in charge of redistributing the tasks among the persons in my team, according to their knowledge and level of experience.
I participated in guiding, mentoring, and leading a small group of devs (3) to the company goals!
I was in charge of helping the team to create quotes for the clients, depending on the hours of development a project was going to take.
Technical Lead
Wellhouse
I participated in building the first versions of the product from an MVP stage to more sophisticated software, we were a company that measured the productivity and the wellness of the employees, using data and a dashboard.
I was in charge of deciding on the architecture, stack, and how to create a fast MVP to launch to the market.
I was in charge of growing the team, hiring the first employees of the team, doing a recruitment process.
I participated in the sales process of the company, I used to go to meetings with clients, and talk with the technical team of our clients for the integrations they could require.
Full-stack Developer
Umvel
My team was in charge of creating the marketing sites and apps as fast as we could for some big brands such as: Netflix, Samsung, Volkswagen, Yves Roche
I helped defining the architecture and the stack of the sites/app
I used to take meetings and presentation with the client to take requirements and change
I used to coach some JR engineers of the team to help them grow
Frontend Developer & Mobile Developer
Umvel
Developed and maintained mobile applications using Ionic and Cordova.
Worked on frontend projects using Angular and AngularJS.
Collaborated with backend developers to integrate APIs.
Conducted code reviews and provided mentorship to junior developers.