Summary
Ariel Mejia is a Laravel-focused software engineer and tech lead from Guatemala with eight years building full-stack web applications and SaaS products. He combines deep backend expertise in PHP/Laravel with Vue.js and InertiaJS on the frontend, repeatedly shipping multitenant REST APIs and fast MVPs for startups and enterprise customers. As a co-founder and CTO he led product design through launch for a donations SaaS, and as a trainer he has mentored junior developers into production-ready PHP engineers. He emphasizes TDD, SOLID principles and pragmatic architecture, and has applied those practices across industries including finance and mortgage tech. Comfortable steering both code and teams, he currently contributes to Laravel projects at OneCert while remaining active in the open-source and Inertia/Vue communities. Colleagues note his blend of hands-on implementation and instructional coaching, which accelerates delivery without sacrificing maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Posgrado, TecnologĂa informática/TecnologĂa de sistemas informáticos, Posgrado, TecnologĂa informática/TecnologĂa de sistemas informáticos at Universidad Galileo