Summary
Leonel Rojas is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years building scalable, user-centered products across FinTech, EdTech, retail, and aviation. He joined startups as an early engineering hire (Belozfi, YC W22) and has shipped award-winning educational features at 95percent, combining frontend expertise in Vue/React/TypeScript with backend Node.js and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). Leonel excels at modern architectures—microservices, event-driven systems, BFFs and serverless—while improving developer experience and accessibility (WCAG) in production systems. He's equally comfortable leading front-end teams, mentoring, and teaching (Desafío Latam), and has a track record of modernizing legacy platforms into resilient microservices. Based in Santiago, Chile, he pairs a traveler’s curiosity with a pragmatic engineering mindset that focuses on measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Systems Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Systems Engineering at Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Centrales 'Rómulo Gallegos'