Joaquín Melo is a Lead Frontend Developer with two decades in software development and a decade of focused experience shipping web products built around React, TypeScript and modern frontend patterns. He currently leads frontend architecture at Festina Finance, where he designed a dependency-injection solution for React to enable country- and customer-specific portal customization. Past roles span full-stack work in startups and enterprise settings — from building component libraries, SSR and build optimizations to backend services in Rust and Node.js and Kubernetes-driven deployments. He founded Develop17 to deliver bespoke tech projects and co-organizes a regional tech event, showing an appetite for both entrepreneurship and community building. Known for combining strong UX sensibilities with pragmatic engineering, he favors moving fast while maintaining high code quality and test coverage.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Computer Science, MSc in Computer Science at Universidad de Extremadura
Master in Computer Science Research, Master in Computer Science Research at University of Extremadura
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Joaquín Melo - Lead Frontend Developer at ExtremaduraDigitalDay