Summary
Mainor Claros is a Staff Software Engineer in Austin with 12 years building durable, user-sensitive web systems across RoR, JavaScript (React/Vue), TypeScript, Python and SQL, and occasional work in Go and Elm. He began in high-design consumer products where meticulous UI and CSS craft taught him to favor friendly, trustworthy experiences over "good-enough" software, and has since shifted toward backend, security, and reliability work that enables those experiences at scale. Known for thorough, constructive code reviews and for introducing testing, performance optimizations, and maintainable frontend patterns, he bridges product UX intuition with operational rigor. He excels in internationalization, accessibility, and platform security, and prefers pragmatic server-rendered or modern framework approaches (Vue/Svelte/TS) over pure frontend-only roles. Quietly pragmatic rather than theatrical, he moves fast with clarity and longevity in mind and is growing toward security- and reliability-focused leadership.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts, Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
University of California Education Abroad Program, University of California Education Abroad Program at Lund University
English, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese