About

JJ Vélez is a Senior Software Engineer at Pay, with over 1.5 years of relevant experience in full-stack software engineering. He has a strong background in the most popular JavaScript frontend and backend, and Java backend technologies, including React, Redux, Node, Express, Socket.io, Spring, Cassandra, MongoDB, and others. JJ's current role at Apple as a Senior Software Engineer builds on his previous experience as a Software Engineer at the same company, where he worked on backend development. Before that, he was a Software Engineering Fellow at Galvanize Inc, where he prepared algorithms and data structures Q&A sessions with immersive web development engineers, conducted admissions interviews with applicants of the Hack Reactor @ Galvanize Immersive program, and conducted mock interviews with graduates so they could practice their interviewing skills. JJ also started the "Bug of the Week" initiative to inform engineers of the previous week's most common bug encountered. JJ holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is expected to graduate in 2024. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Neuroscience from the Johns Hopkins University, where he also earned a minor in Mathematics. JJ's tech stack includes software engineering, backend development, Java, JavaScript, MongoDB, Cassandra, Spring, Redux, frontend development, and web development. He is a highly skilled and motivated engineer with a passion for solving complex problems and creating innovative solutions.