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Open to remote Senior / Lead / Staff roles

Daniel Mejía

Senior / Lead Software Engineer — React · Next.js · TypeScript · Node.js · AWS · AI/LLM

12+ years building frontend architectures and full-stack platforms, now focused on AI-native product engineering — wiring real production interfaces to Claude, GPT, MCP and RAG, not training models.

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years shipping production software
0M+
customers served (GoDaddy Website Builder)
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years maintaining open source, in parallel

Selected work

Three products, one thread: own the frontend, ship it in production.

Brevian

Senior Lead Frontend Engineer · Apr 2025 – Present · Remote

AI-native · production

Problem. Brevian is an AI-native meeting-intelligence platform — the AI can't be a bolt-on feature, it has to be central to the product architecture itself.

Built. Owns the frontend architecture and the integration layer between the product and the AI/LLM stack. Built React/Next.js interfaces powering real-time AI assistance during live Zoom and Microsoft Teams meetings. Integrated Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT, AI agents, and MCP servers exposing customer knowledge bases and external data sources. Implemented streaming LLM responses over SSE and WebSocket-based real-time comms for live transcription and AI-generated insights. Contributed to RAG pipelines for contextual retrieval, and to the Electron desktop layer that captures richer meeting context from Zoom/Teams. Infrastructure on AWS.

Result. Runs A/B tests and LLM evals to check AI features against real user behavior before they ship.

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Claude
  • GPT
  • MCP
  • RAG
  • SSE
  • WebSockets
  • Electron
  • AWS

GoDaddy Website Builder

Lead Software Engineer · 2022 – 2025 · Remote

20M+ customers

Problem. The Products Service powers shopping and online-store experiences across GoDaddy Website Builder — multiple teams building for 20M+ customers, each reinventing auth, theming and testing on their own.

Built. Led frontend architecture for the Products Service. Introduced Next.js and standardized a reusable “frontend seed” — code practices, theming, auth, i18n and testing — adopted across multiple teams. Built a shared Okta authentication package for secure, reusable login. Standardized the testing strategy with React Testing Library and Cypress. Created a design system aligned to GoDaddy's branding. Integrated REST and GraphQL backend services and third parties (Okta, Zoom, Outlook, Google, Instagram), and built the scalable shopping-experience system behind Website Builder's online stores. Also principal PR reviewer, mentored engineers, and supported sprint planning.

Result. The frontend seed and Okta package were adopted org-wide — one integration, reused, instead of every team building its own.

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • GraphQL
  • REST
  • React Testing Library
  • Cypress
  • TailwindCSS
  • Material UI

Cropswap Services

Lead Software Engineer · 2018 – 2020 · Remote (Cafeto Software)

0 → market

Problem. Cropswap needed to connect farmers and local producers directly with buyers — starting from nothing.

Built. Led the full development process and architecture, from design through implementation and testing of the React components. Defined release strategy and best practices, and mentored the dev team. Designed the technical architecture, created reusable packages, and integrated third-party services to build the entire Cropswap ecosystem from MVP.

Result. Grew from MVP into one of the most innovative apps in its market category.

  • React
  • React Native
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • AWS
  • Firebase
  • Stripe
  • Node
  • NestJS

Core stack

Frontend

React · Next.js (App Router, RSC, Server Actions) · TypeScript · Redux Toolkit · React Query/SWR · TailwindCSS · Radix UI · WCAG 2.2 AA

AI / LLM

Claude · GPT · MCP · RAG · tool calling · agent orchestration · LLM evals · prompt engineering · Claude Code

Real-time

SSE · WebSockets · Webhooks · event-driven architecture · streaming UI

Backend & cloud

Node.js · NestJS · Express · Python · GraphQL · REST · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions

Testing

React Testing Library · Cypress · Jest · Vitest · Mocha/Chai

Data

PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Firebase Realtime Database

About

AI application engineering, not model training.

Senior/Lead Software Engineer with 12+ years building frontend architectures and full-stack platforms, recently evolved into AI-native product engineering. Currently leads the frontend architecture and the AI/LLM integration layer at Brevian, an AI-native meeting-intelligence platform in production — combining React/Next.js with Claude and GPT integrations, MCP, RAG, and real-time streaming (SSE/WebSockets). Previously led the frontend architecture for GoDaddy Website Builder (20M+ customers), standardizing design systems, authentication and testing strategy across teams.

The angle is deliberate: integrating LLMs, agents, MCP and RAG into real production UX — not training or researching models. Strong track record of end-to-end ownership: architecture, delivery, mentorship, and production quality.

  • Based in Bogotá, Colombia — 100% remote
  • Languages Spanish (native), English (professional working proficiency)

Target roles

  • →Senior / Lead / Staff Frontend Engineer
  • →Senior / Lead Software Engineer
  • →Senior Product Engineer
  • →AI Product / AI Application Engineer
  • →Frontend AI Engineer
  • →Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Trajectory

12+ years, one continuous thread.

  1. 2025 — Present

    Senior Lead Frontend Engineer — Brevian

    Owns frontend architecture and the AI/LLM integration layer for an AI-native meeting-intelligence platform. Remote.

  2. 2022 — 2025

    Lead Software Engineer — GoDaddy

    Led frontend architecture for the Products Service powering GoDaddy Website Builder, serving 20M+ customers. Remote.

  3. 2020 — 2022

    Senior Software Engineer — GoDaddy

    Designed, coded and tested frontend and backend features for GoDaddy Online Store, serving millions of users in real time. React, Node, Ruby on Rails. Remote.

  4. 2018 — 2020

    Lead Software Engineer — Cropswap Services (Cafeto Software)

    Led development process and architecture for a marketplace connecting farmers directly with buyers, from MVP onward. Remote.

  5. 2016 — 2018

    Lead / Software Engineer — Cafeto Software

    Led frontend/full-stack delivery across client projects: The Dress Club App (Houston textile-manufacturing MVP), Colombo Website Tools (migrated a legacy PHP admin to Node.js; built the React website and mobile app for one of LATAM's largest English-learning platforms), and Amelio App (behavioral-health/telemedicine, React Native + Java/Spring Boot).

  6. 2013 — 2016

    Freelance Full-Stack / Software Developer

    Cyclist App (ML-based ride analysis, REST backend, realtime/offline mobile), Campus Univalle Website (campus-admin platform with neural-network matching for student/apartment data), Criticos App (native Android/Java, Firebase, PostgreSQL). Taught programming (OOP, functional paradigm, backend architecture, modern frontend) at Universidad del Valle, 2014–2015.

Education & certifications

  • BSc Computer Science — Universidad del Valle — 2011–2016
  • Computer Programming — SENA — 2009–2011
  • Bootcamps — Git Expert; React & React Native Expert (Platzi); NodeCamp — 2017–2019

Contact

Building AI-native products, or need someone to own the frontend end-to-end?

Let’s talk.