Summary
Arvil Meña is a senior software engineer with 10+ years’ experience modernising legacy platforms into scalable, production-ready systems across the UK and Australia. He recently led a full rebuild of a Symfony 2 monolith into a TypeScript/NextJS monorepo serving UK schools nationally, and cut critical page loads from minutes to under two seconds through a platform-wide performance audit and bespoke profiling tools. Day-to-day he architects full-stack TypeScript (NextJS, NestJS, Bun, oRPC), manages AWS infrastructure and CI/CD, and builds observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) and AI-assisted code review pipelines that shift teams from guesswork to data-driven debugging. He designs monorepo patterns that give developers end-to-end ownership, removing cross-team blockers and accelerating delivery, while mentoring juniors and setting technical direction. Comfortable working remotely and asynchronously, he combines hands-on shipping discipline with a physics background that surfaces in systematic, measurement-driven problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at University of the Philippines