Summary
Maikel Perez is a Staff Software Engineer with nearly a decade of experience building high-performance, accessible front-end and full-stack web applications across retail, media, and enterprise domains. He combines product-minded engineering with deep technical leadership—architecting micro-frontend platforms, modular TypeScript component systems, and performance-first checkout and booking flows that measurably boost conversion and revenue. His work at Automattic and LATAM shows a knack for scaling user experiences (e.g., cutting flight search from 15s to under 1s) while preserving compatibility and accessibility across ecosystems. Maikel mentors engineers, drives cross-team standards like code review guidelines, and launched a volunteer mentorship circle to improve onboarding and inclusive culture. Comfortable in remote, cross-cultural teams, he is bilingual (Spanish/English) and brings hands-on open-source engagement with WooCommerce to inform product decisions. He’s pragmatic yet curious—equally at home shipping production optimizations that save milliseconds as designing architecture that reduces future onboarding time-to-market.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Science, B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas
English, Spanish