Jimmy Mena
Principal Engineer at Early Warning® - Zelle
Rosario, Santa Fe, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Mena is a Principal Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and modernizing backend and middleware systems, currently driving platform work at Early Warning® - Zelle. He has led large migrations from Java 8/Spring Boot 2 to JDK17/Spring Boot 2.5+ and architected cloud-native transitions to AWS with containerized microservices, CI/CD, and observability at enterprises like Bimbo Bakeries and Mastercard. Comfortable across languages (Java, Python, C#, PHP, JavaScript), Jimmy blends deep systems architecture with practical tooling—JMeter/BlazeMeter performance testing, OpenRewrite upgrades, Jenkins pipeline automation, and Kafka integrations—to improve reliability and developer velocity. He also teaches object-oriented programming and has piloted AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot to raise testing coverage and streamline reviews. With an MS in Computer Science and a background in real-time and embedded systems, he offers a unique perspective that bridges legacy mission-critical systems and modern data/ML aspirations.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at The City College of New YorkBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Queens College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
js4
testing4
mongodb4
zoho3
command-line3
cli3
nuget-package3
webservice2
dotnet2
php2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jmeliodas96/Web-Admin-platform-suscriptions
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
This is a web application building on Node.JS and Mongo DB for management suscriptions.
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 7 months
jsmongodb
jmeliodas96/Chart-Activations
May 2018 - Dec 2019
The objective of this project its build a activations chart that get data from a file csv. the tools that use in this project its ReactJs for build Front-end and Python for build the back-end.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
csvreactpythonchartactivations
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