Summary
Ivan Almanza is a Senior Software Architect and frontend technical leader with 11 years of experience building high-quality, performant web applications from Bogotá, Colombia. He has led multiple frontend teams at Mercado Libre and startups like olive.com, driving code quality, secure production deployments, and short- to medium-term roadmaps while mentoring engineers. A hands-on engineer, he blends deep React/Node.js expertise with practical tooling (Grafana, Datadog, BigQuery) and occasional Go proofs-of-concept, often creating his own frameworks, libraries and starter kits to improve deployment and performance. Known for taking ownership end-to-end, he pairs a habit of experimentation with disciplined engineering practices (SOLID, GitFlow, SCRUM) to deliver measurable product improvements. Off the clock he’s as passionate about code as he is about football, bringing both curiosity and team-first leadership to complex frontend challenges.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Lic. de Informática y Medios Audiovisuales (Bachelor of Computer Science and Audiovisual Media) Computing Education Web Developing Software, Lic. de Informática y Medios Audiovisuales (Bachelor of Computer Science and Audiovisual Media) Computing Education Web Developing Software at Universidad de Córdoba (CO)
Spanish, English