Summary
Javier Mellado is a senior full-stack engineer with over two decades of experience delivering scalable web and mobile systems across media, finance, public sector and startup environments. He specialises in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem, building serverless backends and high-throughput APIs on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, CDK) and shipping production React and React Native frontends. Recent engagements include modernising legacy systems, designing CDK-driven infrastructure, and improving observability and CI/CD for mission-critical services. Comfortable collaborating with non-technical stakeholders, he pairs pragmatic engineering and TDD practices with a focus on performance, maintainability and autonomy. Fluent in English and Spanish and based in Edinburgh, he brings a mix of enterprise-grade reliability and startup agility that often surfaces in cross-team architecture and migration projects.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish