Dexter Miguel
Founding Software Engineer at Fifth Door
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDexter Miguel is a founding software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building resilient systems across startups and growth-stage companies. He has repeatedly stepped into early-stage roles—helping scale teams, establish CI/CD and testing practices, and authoring architecture and RFCs—most recently founding engineering at Fifth Door after leading platform and principal engineering at PermitFlow. Dexter blends full-stack fluency (React, Node, Go, AWS, Terraform) with a knack for reducing operational risk—examples include shrinking a legacy job from 24 hours to 5 minutes and introducing shadow tracers to enable zero-downtime payment deploys. He mentors engineers, influences hiring and interview processes, and is comfortable shipping everything from game matchmaking backends to critical financial services features. Based in Florida, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset and a track record of turning ambiguous product needs into reliable, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma, High school diploma at G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
ui-components10
testing10
material-ui10
interpreter10
automation10
visual-studio10
bundler10
state-machine10
transpiler10
command-line-tool10
isolation10
schema10
jsx10
type-inference10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
divmgl/jackd
Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
Simple and modern beanstalkd client for Node/Bun
Contributions:9 releases, 72 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years
node-jsbeanstalkdnodejsbun
divmgl/discord-message-deleter
Aug 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 release, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 years
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