Ernesto Méndez
Lead Engineer, Back-End at Fueled
Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
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RockstarErnesto Méndez is a Lead Back-End Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, high-performance systems for enterprise WordPress clients from Automattic to XWP and now Fueled. He blends deep WordPress platform expertise with pragmatic engineering—shipping themes, plugins, automation tools, and production-grade backend services that improve developer productivity and customer reliability. Comfortable across the stack, he has contributed front-end UX improvements to popular open-source projects (e.g., expanding VenoBox’s usability and maintainability) while driving back-end architecture and performance for large-scale sites. Based in Santo Domingo, he’s known for refactoring legacy code into maintainable systems and quietly unblocking teams with practical automation and tooling.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
modals10
modal-dialog10
modal-windows10
js10
vanilla-javascript10
responsive9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
internet-explorer6
developer-tools6
cross-browser6
nodejs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nicolafranchini/VenoBox
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Responsive Vanilla JS lightbox plugin, suitable for images, videos, iFrames, inline contents
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ernesto primarily focused on improving the user experience and functionality of the "venobox" lightbox plugin. They modified the CSS to increase the clickable area of navigation buttons and refactored JavaScript code to reduce duplication and improve maintainability. Further, the user added a new feature to allow the use of custom attributes for the lightbox title. Additionally, they implemented a fix to unbind an escape key handler after the lightbox is closed.
jqueryresponsive-designiframeimage-viewerjavascript
mendezcode/mr-image-resize
Mar 2013 - May 2014
Native WordPress Image Processing Library
Contributions:24 commits, 2 comments, 2 issues in 1 year 2 months
imagewordpressimage-processing-librarywordpress-imageprocessing-library
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