Summary
Gerardo Medina is a Web Application Engineer with nine years of experience building accessible, user-focused web interfaces and integrations across startups and large enterprises. He has shipped UI features at Microsoft for Viva Engage, ensuring interoperability with Microsoft 365 and improving accessibility for screen reader and high-contrast users. Previously he delivered tailored frontend solutions for clients like SoFi at Globant and taught full-stack web development across Mexico, Costa Rica, and Colombia as a bootcamp instructor. Now based in Tokyo and working at Rakuten, he blends hands-on engineering with UI design sensibilities and a knack for rapid problem-solving. Certified in GraphQL and React, he brings a pragmatic, innovation-driven approach informed by hackathon experience and international teaching. Notably, his background as a nomadic educator gives him uncommon empathy for diverse learner needs and cross-cultural collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico
Japanese, Spanish, English, Portuguese