Jean
From Ecuador (UTC-5)
Jean – React, Typescript, Node.js
Meet Jean Paul: a strong senior front-end and strong middle back-end engineer with deep expertise in React, Next.js, and AWS, and solid experience in Node.js and TypeScript. He has led front-end teams, contributed to fintech and e-commerce projects, and demonstrates clear communication, stakeholder management, and ownership. With exposure to both giants like PayPal and smaller companies, Jean Paul brings the best of both worlds to his projects.
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Software Engineer
A U.S.-based fintech company offering a family banking platform that empowers parents to manage allowances while teaching children financial literacy through debit cards and investing tools.
- Developed and maintained high-performance React/Next.js web applications used by thousands of families.
- Led UI migrations from Emotion to Tailwind to improve design consistency and performance.
- Built reusable component libraries and optimized rendering performance using React best practices.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Backend teams to ship scalable features.
Software Engineer
PayPal is a global fintech company that enables secure digital payments and online money transfers for individuals and businesses worldwide.
Created, kept, updated, and deployed UI components and pages in collaboration with a team across the world, keeping communication with other teams to get features ready as soon as possible. Projects:
- Shopping Hub: developed "Deals and Offers" experiences, a custom SSR app using React.js, GraphQL, Typescript, and custom PayPal libraries.
- Shopping Growth: created this initiative from scratch. It was a single-page application using React.js, TypeScript, and custom PayPal libraries.
- Xoom: worked on a PayPal service that allowed users to send money to friends and family around the world, with custom SSR to render an SPA on the client.
Full-stack Engineer
A custom software project for a large corporate challenge race.
Led the stack refactoring of a legacy app with a team, responsible for getting frontend modules ready from scratch to production, deprecating the legacy code.
- Developed a React.js frontend using Redux, TypeScript, Material UI, React Query, and React Hook Form; wrote unit tests with Jest.
- Built a Node.js backend deployed on AWS Lambda with PostgreSQL using Sequelize ORM.
- Maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
Full-stack Engineer
A company developing custom software solutions for the clients.
Created, developed, and maintained custom React.js apps, leading the development team to features/fixes from scratch to code production, understanding the Product Manager's requirements before coding.
Projects: Tus10Segundos:
- Developed and maintained an SSR e-commerce platform using React.js (Next.js), Redux, Apollo Client, Firebase, and Strapi API.
- Integrated PayPal API and Conekta API to enable secure online payments.
- Built and enhanced admin and client dashboard SPAs using Next.js, React.js, Apollo Client, and Firebase.
- Developed a scalable backend using Node.js and TypeScript on AWS, working with DynamoDB and later migrating to MongoDB using AWS Lambda.
- Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Configured and managed AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation, Amplify, CloudFront, S3, and API Gateway. Mi Priv:
- Developed an SSR social networking application using Next.js, Redux, Apollo Client, Firebase, and Strapi API.
- Built a dashboard SPA using React.js and Apollo Client.
- Developed a backend application using Node.js, TypeScript, and Fastify.
- Implemented JWT-based authentication and authorization.