Rolando Perez
Senior Frontend Engineer at CMG (Capital Markets Gateway)
Panama, Panamá Province
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Top SchoolRolando Perez is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Panama with 14 years of experience building responsive, production-grade web applications and APIs across React, Node.js, and microservice architectures. He has driven measurable product improvements at scale—shipping a responsive category selector used by over 10,000 WordPress.com users and refactoring a marketplace component from 700 to 160 lines to enable SSR and faster feature delivery. Rolando blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, having led a remote cloud team, created internal npm packages for shared UI and business logic, and improved development velocity by 70%. An active open-source contributor, he worked on Automattic’s prominent wp-calypso repo focusing on React UI, mobile styling fixes, and WooCommerce workflow enhancements. He’s currently advancing frontend systems at CMG while learning AI development to bring smarter, Node-powered features to the front end.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
javascript9
wordpress9
woocommerce9
redux8
react8
jscript7
s67
debugging6
devise6
winapi6
backbonejs6
android6
database6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:183 reviews, 129 commits, 98 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Rolando primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the WordPress.com Calypso repository. Their commits demonstrate proficiency in React, with changes including modifications to existing UI components and implementing new features related to the WooCommerce install process. The user also addressed mobile styling issues and refactored components to improve user experience. Additionally, the user contributed to the marketplace with new features and updates, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's front-end architecture.
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