William Mendez
Lead Software Engineer at Newco
Bogota, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Mendez is a Bogotá-based lead software engineer with 10 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across Latin America. He has progressed from mobile developer to DevOps and backend tech lead roles, later serving as founding engineer, CTO, and now Lead Software Engineer at Newco, bringing startup grit and operational discipline. His academic background includes a master's in software engineering from Universidad de los Andes, and he has taught and conducted research there, signaling a strong grounding in both practice and theory. William is passionate about quality software that makes people's lives easier and continuously learns new technologies to improve systems and team outcomes. An understated strength is his cross-functional fluency—mobile, Rails backend, and DevOps—which helps him bridge product, infrastructure, and engineering execution.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Montessori British SchoolUniversidad de los Andes
Spanish, English
Github Skills (28)
scenarios7
card7
touchscreen7
custom-view6
calendar-view6
testing6
react5
swift5
android5
webpack5
rails5
ios5
javascript4
validations4
forms4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TheSoftwareDesignLab/Kraken
May 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:143 commits, 101 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ravelinx22/TesterInk
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:174 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 months
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