I'm Monica Salamanca, a Senior Front-end Engineer based in Montreal, Canada. I have extensive experience leading teams, building scalable design systems, designing scalable architectures, and delivering high-performance web applications across real-time, transactional, and high-traffic environments. I excel at establishing engineering standards, modernizing legacy architectures, and driving collaboration with product, design, and backend teams. I'm strong in React, Vue, Next.js, WebSockets, and state management patterns. I combine hands-on development with strategic leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and pragmatic architectural decisions. I'm an active user of AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to plan, review code, and accelerate delivery.…

Monica Salamanca

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I'm Monica Salamanca, a Senior Front-end Engineer based in Montreal, Canada. I have extensive experience leading teams, building scalable design systems, designing scalable architectures, and delivering high-performance web applications across real-time, transactional, and high-traffic environments. I excel at establishing engineering standards, modernizing legacy architectures, and driving collaboration with product, design, and backend teams. I'm strong in React, Vue, Next.js, WebSockets, and state management patterns. I combine hands-on development with strategic leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and pragmatic architectural decisions. I'm an active user of AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to plan, review code, and accelerate delivery.…

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I’m Monica Salamanca, a Senior Front-end Engineer based in Montreal, Canada. I have extensive experience leading teams, building scalable design systems, designing scalable architectures, and delivering high-performance web applications across real-time, transactional, and high-traffic environments.

I excel at establishing engineering standards, modernizing legacy architectures, and driving collaboration with product, design, and backend teams. I’m strong in React, Vue, Next.js, WebSockets, and state management patterns. I combine hands-on development with strategic leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and pragmatic architectural decisions. I’m an active user of AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to plan, review code, and accelerate delivery.

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Skills

Experience Level

JavaScript
Expert
Vue.js
Expert
HTML5
Expert
TypeScript
Expert
Adobe XD
Expert
Figma
Expert
GitHub Copilot
Expert
GraphQL
Expert
UI
Expert
MySQL
Expert
Socket.IO
Expert
AWS
Expert
PHP
Expert
Laravel
Expert
Docker
Expert
Tailwind
Intermediate
Kubernetes
Intermediate
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Language

English
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Fluent
French
Advanced

Work Experience

Senior Front-end Engineer at Mavtek
February 1, 2022 - December 1, 2025
Led frontend development for Ads & Campaigns Pod; architected a new modular ads and campaigns platform in Vue.js / Vuex with reusable UI blocks; collaborated with Product, Design, Backend, and QA to ship features; established coding standards and CI-driven quality gates across pods. Also served as Frontend Lead for Ads & Campaigns and Team Lead for Live Pod, directing end-to-end development of real-time features with React, Next.js, and SWR, ensuring reliability under high concurrency and enforcing consistent UI patterns and scalable architectures; mentored developers and integrated AI-assisted planning and code reviews.
Frontend Developer at Morgan Stanley
October 1, 2021 - February 1, 2022
Contributed to a financial platform’s frontend; achieved 90–100% unit test coverage with Jasmine, improving regression reliability; streamlined development workflows and CI processes; collaborated with product, design, backend, and QA teams to deliver robust features.
Frontend Developer at Appnovation
November 1, 2019 - December 1, 2019
Built a Gatsby + GraphQL solution to support analytical data exploration via Looker API integrations; customized third-party packages to meet project-specific functional constraints.
Frontend Developer at Canada Life
November 1, 2017 - October 1, 2019
Delivered accessible, responsive interfaces aligned with ADA standards; rebuilt a major insurance website using modular HTML5/CSS/JS components; collaborated with UI/UX teams to optimize performance and modernize user experience.

Education

Software Engineering at Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería
January 1, 1999 - January 1, 2005
Software Engineering at Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería
January 1, 1999 - January 1, 2005

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Education, Financial Services, Healthcare, Other, Professional Services
    paper The Jet Lag Chronicles

    The Jet Lag Chronicles is a modern, content-driven travel platform engineered for performance, scalability, and long-term monetization. It is built with Next.js (App Router) and TypeScript on the frontend, backed by Strapi v4 as a headless CMS, enabling clean content modeling, fast iteration, and future extensibility.

    The platform currently delivers high-quality editorial blog content, optimized for SEO, accessibility, and performance, with a fully responsive, pixel-perfect UI designed to scale seamlessly across devices. The architecture is production-ready: structured data, optimized images, and modern rendering patterns are applied from day one.

    AI is used as a productivity and content-augmentation layer, supporting editorial workflows, content ideation, and future personalization features. The codebase emphasizes clean architecture, maintainability, and design consistency, making it straightforward to expand into paid guides, bundles, and interactive features when monetization is enabled.

    In short: this is not a hobby blog. It is a well-engineered publishing platform built with professional frontend standards, designed to grow into a full travel content and digital products ecosystem.