Rafael Mendiola
Co-Founder at okthink.ai
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Mendiola is an experienced front-end engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years building cross-platform consumer applications and design systems, now co-founding an AI-native startup in Boston. An MIT computer science graduate, he has led React Native adoption and mobile platform teams at HubSpot and driven design system migrations and tooling at Hinge Health to materially improve developer velocity and app consistency. He combines hands-on engineering—creating codemods, visual codebase analysis tools, and cross-platform libraries—with product-minded leadership across startups and consultancy engagements. Notably, he has repeatedly turned legacy or fragmented codebases into maintainable, high-adoption systems while coaching teams and shaping organizational practices.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Undergrad, Computer Science, Undergrad, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
83reputation
5kreached
2answers
9questions
Github Skills (81)
mobile-development10
mapview10
google-maps10
app-framework10
maps10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
react10
sendgrid9
push-notifications9
testing9
angular8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dslounge/raf.dev
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 66 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 9 months
dslounge/atom-markdown-todo
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 37 pushes, 10 branches in 3 months
formattingmarkdowntodo
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