Gerardo Melendrez is a lead software engineer and architect with over 25 years of hands-on experience and more than a decade in senior technical roles, blending deep expertise in the Microsoft stack (.NET, ASP.NET, Blazor, C#, WPF) with proven cloud and DevOps practice on Azure. He has led engineering teams, defined enterprise development standards, and built scalable, serverless and containerized platforms—most recently steering technical strategy as Co-Founder/CTO of a media platform that integrates AI features like speech recognition and OCR. At large enterprises he has modernized APIs, implemented CI/CD pipelines, and migrated complex ESB and ETL systems, while mentoring developers and creating reusable frameworks and open-source components. Based in Henderson, NV, he combines startup agility with enterprise discipline and a long track record of shipping secure, production-grade solutions across desktop, web, mobile and cloud. An underrated strength is his pattern-oriented approach to integration problems—turning heterogeneous systems into cohesive, maintainable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Systems Engineering, Computer Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Code used in Microsoft Learn modules to support Azure DevOps
Contributions:18 PRs, 70 pushes, 22 branches in 24 days
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