Herald Villarreal
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHerald Villarreal is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas, with 14 years of experience building customer-facing web applications at scale. He has deep hands-on experience in Node.js and React, contributing to PayPal’s consumer web where he helped design transaction experiences, global componentization, and GDPR compliance. Herald combines startup curiosity with enterprise rigor—having shipped features at Dosh and earlier video-collaboration work at First Cut Pro—so he’s comfortable moving between rapid product iterations and large-scale platform concerns. He’s skilled at bridging front-end UX needs with reusable services and automation, and his background includes test automation and regional solutions work for Latin America. Colleagues know him as a hacker who values elegant solutions and continuous growth through meaningful engineering challenges.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinAssociate's, Engineering, Associate's, Engineering at South Texas College
Github Skills (82)
jquery-plugin10
spotify-api10
betting10
jquery10
tracks10
react10
javascript9
developer-tools9
experiences9
random-generation9
zero-configuration9
remix9
playlists9
create-react-app9
iframe9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
christophior/xrpcli
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 5 months
christophior/JSONConfigurablePersonalSite
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 10 PRs, 29 pushes in 6 months
jsonconfigurableexample-site
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