Hi, I'm Gabriel Menacho

- Led front-end architecture for the Spare Hand Students platform using React + TypeScript, building a scalable, reusable UI foundation that accelerated feature delivery and elevated consistency, accessibility, and overall user experience. - Introduced AI-assisted development workflows (code generation, review acceleration, and test-case drafting) to streamline engineering throughput, shorten implementation cycles, and improve release confidence. - Architected a robust state-management layer with Redux Toolkit, RTK Query, and XState for complex multi-step journeys, reducing state-related defects and improving reliability in critical student and customer flows. - Drove quality engineering with Vitest, Testing Library, MSW, and Cypress E2E automation, strengthening regression protection and enabling faster, safer iterations. - Owned design-system execution with Material UI, Tailwind CSS, and Storybook, tightening design-engineering collaboration and reducing time from Figma handoff to production-ready UI. - Directed Agile/Scrum delivery as Frontend Lead, translating roadmap goals into high-quality incremental releases while enforcing coding standards.

- Led React + TypeScript component library adopted across 6 applications, eliminating UI inconsistencies and accelerating feature delivery by 40%, shortening time-to-market and improving user experience consistency. - Architected front-end application and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time from days to hours, enabling faster iterations and lowering operational costs. - Built comprehensive Jest test suite with high coverage while enforcing SOLID principles, boosting code maintainability, reducing defects, and cutting long-term technical debt for the front-end team. - Directed Agile/Scrum as front-end lead, delivering 4 major enterprise releases in 4 months with high quality, accelerating the product roadmap while protecting brand reputation. - Owned Storybook documentation for 35+ components, streamlining design-developer collaboration and reducing alignment time, ensuring consistent, on-brand UX across applications.

- Drove Agile/Scrum ceremonies and Jira/Confluence workflows as front-end lead, enabling seamless cross-team collaboration and on-time delivery of multiple product initiatives. - Built responsive React + TypeScript applications using SASS and RTK Query, improving user experience by 45% and delivering smoother, faster interfaces for end users. - Designed and automated GitHub Actions + Codefresh CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 50% — enabling faster iterations and higher release frequency. - Implemented Jest unit tests and Cypress E2E testing, achieving 88% test coverage and significantly reducing production bugs while improving overall application stability. - Applied clean code, SOLID principles, and modern software engineering practices across the frontend architecture, building scalable and maintainable systems that supported long-term team velocity.

- Increased team productivity by 30% by streamlining retrospective sessions and continuous improvement workflows, accelerating delivery cadence and fostering a culture of rapid iteration. - Modernized legacy AngularJS codebases to Atlaskit while enforcing clean code and SOLID principles, significantly improving maintainability and reducing technical debt. - Delivered full-stack features and well-tested React components for complex enterprise client applications, enabling faster value delivery to key customers. - Led development of React + TypeScript + GraphQL applications with CSS Modules, Node.js, and MongoDB integrations, building scalable and performant enterprise solutions. - Designed and built custom Jira + Confluence automation tools, transforming Scrum retrospectives and driving more effective team reflection and process improvements.

- Spearheaded full-stack project from inception to production (0 to 1) using React, Go Lang, and GraphQL, delivering a scalable enterprise solution on time and in production. - Designed advanced state management with Redux and Zustand, enabling the successful delivery of complex enterprise features with high performance and maintainability. - Built and maintained React + TypeScript UIs using Material UI and Storybook, creating premium, consistent user experiences across the application. - Owned end-to-end development and bug fixing across frontend and backend, supporting distributed US and LATAM teams while ensuring high-quality deliveries. - Led Scrumban processes with Jira and GitHub, driving seamless collaboration across 4 countries and improving cross-team alignment and delivery cadence.

- Delivered React + TypeScript components and pages for PayPal's core production applications, directly contributing to one of the world's largest fintech platforms. - Managed dependency updates and conflict resolution across large-scale monorepos, ensuring zero downtime during critical maintenance cycles. - Developed and resolved critical frontend features using GraphQL and Jest, improving user experience and reliability in high-traffic payment flows. - Collaborated effectively with global teams across USA, India, Brazil, and Argentina using Jira and GitHub, supporting seamless delivery in a distributed environment. - Applied clean code and SOLID principles in a high-stakes fintech environment under Scrum, maintaining high quality and architectural standards.

- Developed VSCode extensions using OpenAPI schema to auto-generate APIs, significantly boosting developer velocity and reducing manual integration effort. - Built interactive KPI data visualizations for supply chain management, enabling real-time data-driven decisions and improving operational visibility. - Delivered full-stack features across React, Vue.js, Node.js, and .NET Core on Azure, supporting scalable enterprise applications. - Modernized legacy Knockout.js codebases to Vue.js while enforcing clean code and SOLID principles, improving maintainability and reducing technical debt. - Drove Scrumban workflows with Jira and GitHub for distributed US-Bolivia teams, enhancing cross-team collaboration and delivery efficiency.

- Led and mentored 9-developer team building secure, globally scalable SaaS traceability platform. - Architected AWS Serverless solution with Lambda, DynamoDB, Terraform, and GraphQL for production-grade performance. - Delivered full-stack React + Node.js features while modernizing legacy Ext.js and Angular 4 systems for US client. - Implemented item-level traceability solutions on a production-grade cloud-hosted SaaS platform. - Started as a junior software developer and promoted to team leader after 1 year of high impact delivery.