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Carlos Vega Rodríguez

Senior Software Consultant — JavaScript Frameworks, AI-Driven Workflows & Team/Business Enablement

15+ years of software engineering, still actively shipping production code across React, Next.js, React Native, and AWS. Helps engineering organizations adopt AI in day-to-day work: shared conventions, review discipline, and repeatable AI-driven workflows that keep code consistent and quality high as teams scale. Works the full development cycle, from business goals to architecture and delivery.

Experience

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Senior Software Developer · 18Techs
SEP 2016 — PRESENT
Freelance / Contract · Remote · React Native · React Query · AWS · TypeScript · Next.js · Angular · React
  • Deliver full-cycle product engineering across a portfolio of clients — mobile front ends, cloud back ends, and delivery.
  • Standardize stacks, conventions, and CI/CD so teams ship consistently and resiliently.
  • Drive AI-assisted development into client teams’ day-to-day process.
// Selected client work
social

munity

Cross-platform community & social media app (iOS + Android) — media capture/upload, reactions, activity feeds, real-time chat, i18n, durable upload queues, and LLM-based content moderation, plus a Next.js admin panel and web invite system.

React Native · React Query · Next.js · AWS · LLM
ad-tech

QUAD

Complex, high-volume, always-available online ad delivery platform for a Stockholm-based ad-tech company — collaborated on system design and scaled cloud services for real-time ad delivery and reporting, operated in production and engineered for scalability and resiliency on AWS with Kubernetes.

AWS · Kubernetes · React · Angular
mobility

Envoy

EV car-sharing app (“Mobility as an Amenity”) — app-based reservations, keyless vehicle access, and property-scoped fleet flows.

React Native · Mobile
Front-End Tech Lead · Informatech Costa Rica
JAN 2016 — SEP 2016
Costa Rica
  • Led front-end development as tech lead.
  • Re-platformed Encore Capital Group's consumer-facing sites.
Senior Software Engineer · Konrad Group
MAR 2014 — JAN 2016
San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica
  • Delivered solutions for Deloitte Digital.
Senior Analyst · Accenture
NOV 2012 — MAR 2014
Costa Rica
  • Delivered solutions to SAY Media and DuPont.
Web Developer & Designer · avVenta Worldwide
FEB 2012 — MAR 2014
Front-end development — CSS3 / HTML5 / JavaScript web pages & web apps
Web Developer · Samtec Interconnect (Intern)
AUG 2011 — DEC 2011
Costa Rica

Skills

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Languages

TypeScriptJavaScript SQL

Frontend Web

React.jsNext.js AngularHTML5CSS3

Mobile

React NativeReact Query ExpoRedux Toolkit

Backend / Cloud

AWSNode.js REST / GraphQLCI/CD

AI-Augmented Dev

ClaudeCodex CursorLLM workflows

Practices

System DesignCode Review & Standards CI/CD & ReleaseState Management Offline-firstTesting i18n

AI in the Loop

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ai_workflow.log
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AI integrated into the development process, with guardrails that protect quality and consistency at team scale.
  • Implement standardized development processes and integrate AI into them across engineering organizations.
  • Champion shared conventions, review discipline, and repeatable AI-driven workflows.
  • Enforce guardrails against “AI slop” — AI-generated code meets the same bar as hand-written, via review, linting, and CI.
  • Coach developers on AI pairing with Claude, Codex, and Cursor for architecture, refactors, and review.

Open Source

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@storybook/angular ★ initial developer

Initial developer of Storybook for Angular (v1) — brought the industry-standard UI component workshop to the Angular ecosystem. Storybook is used by teams at scale across the web platform.

Angular · TypeScript · Open Source

→ more at github.com/alterx

Talks & Teaching

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education partner Mentor senior-year Computer Science design teams — application development (React / React Native), front-end architecture, and AI-assisted workflows University of Central Florida (UCF)
talk Composing elegant web applications with React and Ramda Frontend Day Costa Rica · 2016
course Advanced JavaScript BrainStation · 2016
workshop Angular 2: From Framework to Platform BrainStation · 2016
workshop Angular 2: A Framework with Class BrainStation · 2015

Education

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Bachelor's degree, Computer Software EngineeringUniversidad Nacional de Costa Rica
2008 — 2011