Summary
Josue Montenegro is a Senior Software Engineer based in Osaka with a decade of experience building reliable, scalable full-stack systems and mentoring teams through growth-stage challenges. He has a track record as a founding engineer and tech lead at early-stage startups, shipping AI-driven recommendation systems, migrating platforms to GCP with zero downtime, and squeezing 11× performance improvements from critical pages. Comfortable across web and mobile stacks, he pairs pragmatic engineering (clean, maintainable code) with product-focused UX and internal tooling that accelerates the business. Josue also brings AI engineering experience—creating evals for core services and iterating via prompt engineering and metric-driven experiments—to improve acquisition and retention. Former consulting roles across healthcare, finance, and security demonstrate his ability to ramp quickly into complex codebases and deliver high-confidence changes. He combines an engineer’s curiosity (from C++/Matlab research roots) with a collaborative leadership style that empowers teams to take ownership.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
English, Spanish