Mateo Palacios is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 18 years of experience building enterprise-grade web applications, primarily focused on modern Angular, RxJS, NgRx and TypeScript. He has a track record of modularizing monoliths into scalable monorepos, upgrading large codebases across multiple major Angular versions, and improving developer experience through tooling and CI with Nx and pnpm. Mateo pairs strong frontend craftsmanship and design sensibility—translating Figma-driven systems into polished UIs—with backend familiarity in Supabase, Firebase, NestJS and Node.js, enabling end-to-end solutions. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Angular tooling within the widely used Nx monorepo, fixing schematics and Webpack defaults that affect many teams. Based in Medellín, Colombia, he combines pragmatic problem-solving with a taste for developer ergonomics and maintainable architectures.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Electronics and Telecomunications, Engineer Electronics and Telecomunications at Universidad del Cauca
Build system, optimized for monorepos, with plugins for popular frameworks and tools and advanced CI capabilities including caching and distribution.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mateo primarily focused on improving the Angular-based tooling and schematics within the Nx monorepo. Their contributions included bug fixes and enhancements to the `ng-add` schematic, specifically addressing issues with updating style paths and test configurations, along with project name handling. They also made improvements to the underlying code generation processes and the handling of paths for different project types. Additionally, there are commits related to fixing the default compiler option for Webpack configurations.
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