About

Leonel Mendez Jimenez is a highly skilled software engineer with 8 years of experience in the field. He has a passion for developing mobile apps and backend services using a variety of programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, Erlang/Elixir, and AWS Services. Leonel is committed to staying up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in computer science and regularly takes courses on platforms like Coursera, Udemy, and Pluralsight. Currently, Leonel works as a Senior Software Engineer at Rappi, where he is part of the ecommerce team in the super app android platform. He is responsible for handling up to 100k requests per day by monitoring, adding, and fixing features in the ecommerce section. Prior to this, Leonel worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Creditas, where he designed and developed backend services for the Payroll Loan product using Lambda, DynamoDB, NodeJS, Kotlin, Spring Boot, and other AWS services. He also worked as a Software Engineer III at Honeywell User Experience, where he designed and made prototypes for new ideas to release to the market and worked on vision and deep learning systems for industrial safety products. Leonel was also part of the In House Startup first generation at Honeywell, where he created a new machine learning product for plants and factories. Leonel has an impressive educational background, including a Master's degree in Cybersecurity & Data from Arizona State University, a Bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering from UTEL Universidad, and a Professional Certificate Program in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also has a Nanodegree in Android Development from Udacity. Leonel's tech stack includes Software Engineering, AWS, Backend, Kotlin, Mobile, Spring Boot, Spring, Java, Android, Deep Learning, and ML. With 3.86 years of relevant experience, Leonel is interested in being part of an enthusiastic team where they can release amazing products and create an incredible atmosphere at work.