Diego Lara
Frontend Engineer at OCHO
Mexico City
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Top SchoolDiego Lara is a Frontend Engineer based in Mexico City with a decade of experience crafting ergonomic, high-performance web and mobile products, specializing in React and React Native. He has led frontend initiatives and product teams across fintech and B2B startups—shaping trading and automated investment experiences—and currently builds at OCHO after key roles at Vest and Tesorio. Diego pairs a strong UX mindset with hands-on implementation, shipping React/Expo mobile apps and complex web interfaces while mentoring teams as a lead engineer. An organizer of local developer events (eventloop, JSConf MX) and an open-source-minded builder, he brings product intuition to technical decisions and a particular interest in finance and Bitcoin that informs his work. Notably, his background spans full-stack early roles to product leadership, giving him a rare combination of implementation depth and product strategy.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura en Desarrollo de Tecnologías de la Información, Licenciatura en Desarrollo de Tecnologías de la Información at Universidad del Valle de México
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (104)
zero-configuration10
developer-tools10
localstorage10
cross-platform10
android10
build-tools10
ios10
react-native10
create-react-app10
react10
cross-browser10
javascript9
react-scripts9
tus9
prop9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dyegolara/nostr-attached
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Open-source mobile client for the nostr-protocol
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 14 days
react-nativeandroidnostr-protocolnostrios
dyegolara/owen-client
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
Friend debt tracker
Contributions:4 PRs, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
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