Summary
Juan Arechiga is a seasoned software development manager with 11 years of experience leading cross-functional engineering teams and scaling platforms from startup to production-grade services. He has led full lifecycle transitions—most recently helping migrate legacy Rails/Elixir systems to Go and microservices—and has built engineering organizations across Mexico, the US, and Ukraine. Juan combines hands-on technical expertise (backend, infrastructure, mobile) with strong product collaboration, having translated clinical and hospitality workflows into resilient engineering designs that supported rapid growth and high-availability operations. He founded and grew Tend’s engineering function from zero to a platform serving major sports venues and $1M MMR, and has a track record of keeping core products stable during downsizing events. Based in Guadalajara, he pairs a Master’s in Software Engineering with pragmatic leadership, hiring, and career-building practices. An engineer at heart, he’s known for marrying real-world operational constraints with elegant architectural decisions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master Software Engineering, Master Software Engineering at Universidad del Valle de Atemajac