Oscar Melendez
Engineering Manager at Vacasa
Los Lagos, Los Ríos, Chile
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Top SchoolOscar Melendez is an engineering manager with 13 years of software development experience and three years leading teams, particularly skilled at turning junior-heavy groups into autonomous, high-performing units. He brings hands-on technical leadership from startups to mid-size companies like Vacasa, where he led legacy-to-modern migrations, maintained a suite of core microservices, and owned observability practices (APM, RUM, Datadog) across teams. Comfortable working directly with Tech Leads, Staff Engineers, DevOps, and product partners, he balances incident response and KTLO stewardship with delivering new functionality across distributed systems. His stack is cloud-first—AWS (Lambda, ECS, EventBridge), Node.js, Python/Django, serverless patterns—and he frequently authors TDDs and ADRs to formalize architectural choices. Fluent in English and experienced in cross-border collaboration, he often fills gaps left by reorganizations, taking ownership of inherited systems and internal tooling that other teams rely on.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitetKTH Royal Institute of TechnologyEngineer's degree, Computer Science, 70%, Engineer's degree, Computer Science, 70% at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa MaríaEngineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
English, Spanish
Github Skills (51)
nodejs8
javascript7
sql7
orm6
mssql6
typescript6
sqlite6
json6
postgresql6
mysql6
database5
endpoint5
microsoft-sql-server5
ember-cli-addon5
databases5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oyanezm/bolerojs
Dec 2015 - Sep 2020
SPA Framework. Powered by RequireJS + jQuery + Moustache + Less
Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
oyanezm/fabdeploy
Oct 2012 - Nov 2013
Contributions:172 commits in 1 year
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