Cristian Gamez Infantes

• Leading frontend architecture across 3 teams contributing to the same application (React Router,

Node.js/Hono BFF), driving the architecture needed to support multi-team scalability

• Establishing technical standards and development practices to support growing engineering organization

• Auditing existing codebase to identify pain points and technical debt, planned foundational re-architecture to address systemic issues

• Using AI tools (Claude Code, LLM assistants) to support technical decisions, code reviews, and deliver features when hands-on

• Serving as technical lead in early-stage startup, working closely with part-time founders

• Currently developing LLM evaluation platform with chat-driven UI, built with Node.js, React, REST API, and MCP server, focusing on AI-first development workflows using agentic tools like Claude Code and Roo Code

• Managing all aspects of engineering: roadmap planning, coding, code reviews, and client communication

• Leading team scaling efforts, managing up to 5 developers

• Writing user stories and collaborating with Stakeholders to define product features

• Working directly with designer to implement UI/UX decisions

• Hands-on development while balancing leadership responsibilities

• Led frontend development for major cryptocurrency data visualization platform serving 6M monthly active users

• Reduced page load time by 65% through code optimization, lazy loading and code splitting

• Implemented ad-blocker resistant advertising solution, worked closely with ad partners

• Built custom chart components from scratch using Canvas API and SVG and Highcharts

• Migrated company blog to Strapi CMS, improving content management efficiency

• Refactored legacy codebase, reducing bugs by 70% and establishing consistent coding standards

• Managed team of 4 frontend developers, conducting code reviews and mentoring