Adrian Rangel is a hands-on CTO with 12 years of engineering and startup leadership experience, currently leading Valiot’s multi-disciplinary teams to deploy Industry 4.0 solutions across manufacturing plants in the USA, Mexico, and Brazil. He combines full-stack software expertise with mechanical and electrical know-how to build, scale, and optimize products that improve operations and revenue. As a founder and operator of several ventures, including Acrogenesis and Fixaberry, he brings entrepreneurial grit and product intuition to technical strategy. Adrian is an active open-source contributor with maintenance-focused improvements to high-profile projects like Material-UI and backend work on community initiatives such as 24pullrequests, reflecting his emphasis on code quality and collaboration. He enjoys mentoring engineers, staying deeply technical on projects he leads, and rapidly iterating on customer problems using edge technologies and measurable outcomes. Based in Mexico, he’s driven by learning, connecting with new-tech communities, and translating ambitious ideas into production systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey
:christmas_tree: Giving back to open source for the holidays
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily contributed to back-end development tasks within the 24pullrequests project, which focuses on giving back to open source. Their work included modifying the database schema (e.g., adding columns, updating versions), implementing application logic such as redirecting users after updating preferences and setting up a "thank you" email mailer, and fixing GitHub URL validation. The user also addressed issues like infinite scrolling and testing.
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on code cleanup and formatting within the Material UI repository. Their contributions included converting tabs to spaces, removing trailing whitespaces, and removing windows-specific carriage returns across various files, including less, jsx, and css files. They also made code modifications in less, jsx, and css files. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining code style and improving the overall readability of the project.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
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