Diego Fortes
Front-End Lead at HoundDog.ai
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Fortes is a Front-End Lead and Computer Science Engineer based in New York with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping high-performance web applications and SaaS platforms. He’s led end-to-end front-end transformations—migrating legacy stacks to modern React/TypeScript architectures, swapping build systems to Vite, and replacing untyped Redux with typed Jotai—to cut build times, improve safety, and boost developer productivity. At HoundDog.ai he single-handedly built a scalable Remix/Tailwind SaaS UI with 100% TypeScript and integrated secure auth flows, while earlier roles include architecting SSR solutions with Gatsby/GraphQL and contributing an open-source TypeScript component library (Radiance UI). Diego blends deep full-stack experience (Node, Mongo, Express) with practical dev-ops and testing improvements (Vitest, Cypress), mentors teams on best practices, and is comfortable steering technical direction in both startup and enterprise settings. A detail that sets him apart: he repeatedly designs custom build/test pipelines and tooling to solve performance and safety issues rather than relying on defaults.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampEngineering Systems Information, Engineering Systems Information at Universidad Tecnológica NacionalMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at UNLP
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
component-based10
react9
react-library9
component-library9
semantic-ui-react8
fomantic-ui8
semantic-ui8
semantic7
ionic-framework6
typescript6
react-components6
gatsby6
cordova6
angularjs6
react-component2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
daigof/TestStuff
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
daigof/radiance-tests-ts
May 2020 - Oct 2020
to test the radiance-ui component library
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
radiancereactcomponent-libraryui-component
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