Hugo Licón
Software Engineer II at Pinterest
Chihuahua, Mexico
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Top SchoolHugo Licón is a product-focused Software Engineer II with nine years of experience building front-end and mobile solutions, currently contributing at Pinterest from Chihuahua, Mexico. He specializes in React, React Native and Expo, with a track record of shipping user-centered features like international transfers, in-app top-ups with Stripe, and force-upgrade flows for fintech products. Hugo has a strong habit of improving developer velocity and quality—implementing design systems, E2E testing with Maestro, error tracking, performance optimizations, and analytics pipelines with PostHog. He’s experienced in building secure experiences (2FA, payment integrations) and scalable web architectures using AWS services and modern stacks like GraphQL and Prisma. Notable for setting projects up from scratch and turning product requirements into measurable funnels, he blends craftsmanship with a pragmatic focus on user retention and conversion. Outside core delivery, he’s contributed to faster builds and reusable components (publishing an NPM package) and improved hiring and review processes to raise team standards.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería en Sistemas Computacionales, Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería en Sistemas Computacionales at Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua II
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
certification10
fastify10
api10
fetch10
nodejs10
svelte10
css10
math10
stale-while-revalidate10
react-query10
pinterest10
raycast10
codebase10
redux10
graphql-client10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
HugoLiconV/budget-dashboard
May 2021 - Aug 2023
Frontend for a budget app
Contributions:6 PRs, 30 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactbudget-appfrontendbudget
HugoLiconV/google-sheets-api
May 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
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