Franco Mendez
Chile
Summary
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SeniorFranco Z is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience and a 4+ year focus on early-stage startups, including important roles at two Y Combinator companies. He combines front-end expertise in React/Next.js with backend skills in Node.js and Python, and deep experience designing serverless and AWS-based architectures. As a co-founder of Flyyer, he shipped innovative link-preview infrastructure, payment integrations including Bitcoin/Lightning, and earned a YC interview from a 17,000-strong pool. He has led and mentored engineering teams, driven product launches and regional expansions across LatAm, and improved SEO and performance through pragmatic system design. Based in Santiago, he also brings hands-on ops experience (Cloudflare Workers, EC2, Lambda) and a penchant for practical, open-source-friendly tooling.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (79)
bluetooth-low-energy10
dynamodb9
image-generator9
og-image9
link-preview9
seo8
backend8
expressjs8
android8
aws-lambda8
mapbox-gl7
serverless7
mobile-application7
del7
react-native7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
salgode/salgode-backend
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Salgo De Backend
Contributions:240 commits, 9 PRs, 206 pushes in 1 month
backendaws-lambdaserverlessdynamodb
useflyyer/flyyer-php
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
PHP helpers to create https://flyyer.io URLs | Manage your og:image from a single dashboard
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 months
phpflyyerimage-generatorlaravelopen-graph
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