Summary
Mario Melchor is a Senior Front-End Engineer based in Fountain Valley, California, with two decades of web design and development experience and a decade of focused professional engineering roles. He specializes in React and Node.js, blending a strong visual design background from his Interactive Media Design AS with practical full‑stack chops earned through a UC Irvine Full Stack Web Development certificate. At Codazen he progressed from Web Developer to Senior Front End Engineer, consistently shipping user-focused interfaces and modernizing legacy WordPress-driven sites from his earlier role. Mario is driven by continual skill improvement and has a long history of building custom themes, front-end architectures, and project-managed deployments using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL. He brings a designer’s attention to UX alongside pragmatic engineering practices, making him effective at turning polished comps into maintainable, production-ready applications.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion in Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development, Certificate of Completion in Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at University of California, Irvine Division of Continuing Education
Associate of Science - AS, Interactive Media Design, Associate of Science - AS, Interactive Media Design at The Art Institute of California-Orange County
Spanish, English