Mérida, Yucatán · México
Diego Gongora
Tech Lead · Senior Software Engineer · Tech Writer
I build and modernize enterprise web applications with Vue, Angular and TypeScript — hands-on with frontend architecture, microfrontends, admin platforms, authentication and observability. I lead technical decisions, plan delivery, review code and keep Product, Backend, QA and DevOps rowing in the same direction.
- Years of experience
- 6
- Led frontend at
- The Palace Company
- Published articles
- 10+
- Certified
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
01 — About
Hands-on lead
I'm a Frontend Tech Lead with 6 years developing and modernizing enterprise web applications. I still write the code I later ask others to review, and I answer for the technical feasibility and the quality of what ships.
Day to day that means guiding decisions on product architecture, design and tooling, shaping technical solutions alongside Product and Backend, and growing the engineers around me through code review and a high bar rather than more process.
I publish technical articles on Medium, in both English and Spanish, about microfrontends, team workflow and cloud fundamentals. Explaining something well is how I check whether I actually understand it.
Frontend architecture
Structure that survives more than one team touching it.
Microfrontends
Independent deploys and real modularity — without the chaos.
Admin platforms
Dense, data-heavy internal tools people use all day.
Auth & observability
Knowing who did what, and what broke, before users report it.
02 — Experience
Where I've worked
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The Palace Company
Mar 2024 — Sep 2026 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mérida, Yucatán, MéxicoFrontend Tech Lead
Dec 2025 — Sep 2026 · 10 mos- Guide implementation and own the decisions on product architecture, design and tooling.
- Lead technical and architectural decision-making across the frontend.
- Take an active part in Discovery and in defining candidate solutions.
- Accountable for technical feasibility and for the quality of the delivered product.
- Support engineers' technical growth and promote high-bar code standards.
Front End Developer
Mar 2024 — Dec 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos- Built web solutions that are usable, intuitive and responsive on the devices they were designed for.
- Implemented and maintained microfrontends to improve application scalability and modularity.
- Shipped high-performance applications with testable, reusable and efficient code.
- Requirements analysis and interface design; implemented responsive UI components.
- Wrote unit tests and worked on ergonomics and responsive design.
- Worked within agile methodologies throughout the development process.
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Code & Jobs
Aug 2023 — Apr 2024 · 9 mos · FreelanceTechnical Writer
- Wrote technical content for the Code & Jobs platform blog.
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enacment
Feb 2022 — Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · MéxicoSoftware Developer
- Developed bespoke high-performance web applications.
- Built hybrid mobile apps with Ionic and Capacitor.
- Turned functional requirements into app modules.
- Took part in continuous-improvement processes (Agile).
- Managed and maintained production applications.
- Backend work with Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, and both relational and non-relational databases.
- Built reporting (Looker Studio, Power BI) and admin dashboards.
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FitFunWear
Apr 2021 — Nov 2021 · 8 mos · MéxicoJr Full Stack Web Developer
- Planned and estimated the development of the site to be built.
- Translated the web design into web components.
- Analysed, designed and implemented a database system serving queries over 200+ products.
Stack: MySQL · Sequelize · Express · React · Node.js
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Faculty of Mathematics — UADY
Aug 2019 — Feb 2020 · 7 mos · Mérida, Yucatán, MéxicoJr Front-end Developer
- Ran the website and social media for the Intelligent Systems Modelling & Simulation academic group at the Faculty of Mathematics.
- Designed and maintained the group's site on the Joomla CMS.
03 — Skills
What I work with
Architecture
Backend & data
Cloud & reporting
Quality & process
Leadership
04 — Writing
Articles I've published
I write in English and Spanish. Each piece below links to both versions.
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Draft PRs + Review Bots: a simple flow to cut noise and rework
A lightweight review flow that stops half-finished pull requests from eating your team's attention.
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Microfrontends Without Chaos: 5 Rules That Actually Work in Real Teams
The rules I'd want in place before splitting a frontend across teams — learned the hard way.
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Study Guide for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification
The study plan I used to pass the exam, written up while it was still fresh.
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How to Install WordPress Locally and Build Sites on Your Own Machine
A practical local setup for building and breaking WordPress sites safely.
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What is a Microfrontend and Why You Should Know About It
The introduction to microfrontends I wish I'd read first.
05 — Projects
Things I've built in the open
My professional work lives in private repositories. These are personal and academic projects.
CLIR Lab website
Site for the Computational Learning and Imaging Research group, built and maintained on Joomla. Live in production.
FitFunWear
Full-stack e-commerce built with a team of three: catalogue of 200+ products over a relational schema, server-rendered views and an admin area.
Manage Clients
CRUD client-management app built to explore the Vue 3 Composition API end to end.
Marvel App
Marvel character browser with its own Node.js API layer in front of the public Marvel API.
COVID-19 data app
Dashboard consuming a public pandemic dataset and charting it by country.
Blog: Angular + Node API
Angular frontend against a RESTful Node.js API — an early full-stack exercise in separating the two cleanly.
06 — Education
Education, certifications & languages
Formal education
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BSc, Computer Science
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
2017 — 2021
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Full Stack Web Development
Digital House
Apr 2021 — Oct 2021
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English language & literature
Interlingua
Oct 2022 — Aug 2024
Languages
- SpanishNative
- EnglishProfessional working proficiency CIL UADY certificate ↗
Certifications
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
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Python Essentials 1
Cisco Networking Academy
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CCNA: Enterprise Networking, Security & Automation
Cisco Networking Academy
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Introduction to IoT
Cisco Networking Academy
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CCNA: Introduction to Networks
Cisco Networking Academy
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Introduction to Cybersecurity
Cisco Networking Academy
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IT Essentials
Cisco Networking Academy
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Introduction to Web Development I & II
Google Activate
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Key professional skills & competencies
Santander Universia · ANUIES · Fundación Educación Superior-Empresa
Volunteering, workshops & earlier certificates
- Workshop instructor — Festival Matemático Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT) · certificate ↗
- Workshop instructor — Science & Technology Fair UNAM, Mérida campus · certificate ↗
- Mathematics workshop instructor U.S. Consulate & Mérida City Council · certificate ↗
- Student member, Academic Council Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán · certificate ↗
- Networking Academy Learn-A-Thon 2020 Cisco · badge ↗
- Professional internship Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán · certificate ↗
- Git & GitHub fundamentals · Bootstrap · HTML & CSS · Building web pages Devcode · Git ↗ · Bootstrap ↗ · HTML/CSS ↗ · web pages ↗
07 — Contact
Let's talk
Open to conversations about software development, frontend architecture, technical leadership, or an interesting problem you're stuck on. The fastest way to reach me is email.
dgongoragamboa@gmail.com