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 (25)
testing10
appium10
android9
cross-platform8
e2e8
frontend6
uitableview6
react5
mobile5
swift5
custom-view5
calendar-view5
webpack5
rails5
validations5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ravelinx22/TesterInk
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:174 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 months
agilesg4/PryFinalAgiles20182
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:69 commits, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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