I am a self-motivated, AWS Certified Staff Software Engineer with over 17 years of experience in software engineering, leading successful cross-functional teams of engineers. I work in close collaboration with Product, Business Intelligence, Marketing and Design teams in order to achieve our goals and OKRs. I’m looking for a hands-on position as an Individual Contributor.

Juan Mendoza

I am a self-motivated, AWS Certified Staff Software Engineer with over 17 years of experience in software engineering, leading successful cross-functional teams of engineers. I work in close collaboration with Product, Business Intelligence, Marketing and Design teams in order to achieve our goals and OKRs. I’m looking for a hands-on position as an Individual Contributor.

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I am a self-motivated, AWS Certified Staff Software Engineer with over 17 years of experience in software engineering, leading successful cross-functional teams of engineers. I work in close collaboration with Product, Business Intelligence, Marketing and Design teams in order to achieve our goals and OKRs.

I’m looking for a hands-on position as an Individual Contributor.

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Experience Level

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Language

English
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Fluent
French
Intermediate
German
Beginner
Italian
Beginner

Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack at Gartner, Inc.
May 1, 2023 - Present
Joined Gartner as Staff Software Engineer, leading full-stack initiatives. Redesigned the Peer Community home page, reducing loading time from 16s to under 1s. Optimized CI/CD pipelines to cut time-to-market from 2 hours to 5 minutes. Implemented a logged-out version of Peer Community, increasing traffic by 300%. Tech: React, Next.js, AWS ECS, AWS S3, AWS CloudFront, Docker.
Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack at Delivery Hero SE
July 1, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Split a regional microservice into country-based microservices with zero downtime, reducing costs by 35%. Planned and implemented two new microservices to replace external providers, saving €10k per month. Maintained and developed new features for high-availability microservices processing ~1.5M requests per day. Improved Cron jobs by optimizing DB interactions and redesigning executions to reduce RDS costs by 50%.
Engineering Manager - Logistics at Delivery Hero SE
January 1, 2020 - July 1, 2022
Led two teams and managed managers in Delivery Hero’s logistics domain. Mentored engineers to grow their software and technical skills; conducted 1-on-1s. Defined hiring funnels for various logistics roles to support growth.
Engineering Lead - Full Stack at Care.com Europe GmbH
October 1, 2017 - December 1, 2019
Improved frontend stack with React + Redux for user enrollment, reducing load time by 50% and increasing completion rate by 10%. Designed and implemented the Abandoned Cart feature, generating revenue from thousands of new paying users. Upgraded look-and-feel of automated alert emails using MJML, increasing user visits via email channels by 100%.
Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead at Internet Brands
February 1, 2012 - February 1, 2015
Introduced a new recommendation engine for Global Sales Engineering. Developed an end-to-end testing framework with Jenkins, Selenium, Gradle & Java. Optimized site queries, reducing overall page load time by 30%.
Senior Software Engineer at NIC.mx
February 1, 2010 - February 1, 2012
Implemented functionality to compare cars increasing daily usage from 1k to 10k. Created an Email campaign & templating engine to send emails to user base. Completed domain name management for the .MX TLD and trained team on Frontend technologies and JSF.
Junior & Intern Software Engineer at Various (Miscellaneous) Companies
August 1, 2008 - December 1, 2009
Gained foundational software development experience across multiple early-career roles in Mexico.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science and Technology (GPA 90/100) at ITESM, Mexico
August 1, 2005 - December 1, 2009

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 1, 2020 - December 28, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Healthcare, Financial Services, Consumer Goods