Javier Méndez
Staff Software Engineer at Locally
Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJavier Méndez is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance web commerce and search systems, now based in Alajuela, Costa Rica. He combines deep hands-on skills in Play/Scala, Solr, and payment gateway engineering with proven leadership—having managed teams of ~20 engineers and delivered 10+ concurrent initiatives. His background spans search customization, security integrations, performance optimization, and driving ADA compliance and platform modernization (including Kubernetes prototypes). Known for translating customer requirements into reliable, scalable production systems, he also brings a practical knack for automating testing and migration work that reduces operational risk. The mix of long-term search expertise and recent principal-level ownership makes him effective at both technical strategy and execution.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Engineering at Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Spanish, English
Github Skills (5)
golang2
k62
grafana2
monitoring2
prometheus1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
pureinsights/pdp-distilbert-squad
Dec 2021 - May 2022
DistilBERT Question Answering model using SQuAD served with Flask, deployed on Google Cloud Run
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 months
distilbertquestionpythonsquadflask
lujameva/akka-remote-actor-lab
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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