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Miguel Palau

Email: hola@mpz.im Location: Puebla, Mexico GitHub: github.com/shelldandy

Professional Summary

Software Engineer with 10 years of experience. Having worked with Fortune100 companies and YC backed startups Grafana and Cratejoy. Most recently worked with TypeScript, GoLang, Python, related technologies. I enjoy solving complex problems and staying sharp in my skills constantly. Outside of work I enjoy working on my homelab, reading, rock climbing and meditation as hobbies. Currently living in Puebla, Mexico

Work Experience

Grafana Labs

Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack | 2023 - Present

  • Frontend development of Grafana Metrics Drilldown - A queryless experience for browsing Prometheus-compatible metrics. Quickly find related metrics without writing PromQL queries.
  • Mantain CI/CD workflows to automate, releases, linting, changelogs, unit, integration and end-to-end testings.
  • Owner of SAP Hana, Snowflake, MongoDB and Databricks Enterprise Datasources.
  • Stack: React, TypeScript, GoLang, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Services, Playwright, Vitest, Webpack.

Cratejoy Inc

Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack | 2019 - 2023

  • Diagnosed, designed, built and tested new features from scratch as well a smaintain existing ones.
  • Increase CVR by setting up automated abandoned cart email campaigns on Braze and One-Time-Purchase addon products.
  • Increase AOV by adding new product upsells feature.
  • Improved Google Pagespeed scores on the homepage, product pages, category and search pages. (CLS, FCP, LCP, TTFB)
  • Stack: React, JavaScript, Django, Python, Docker, Styled-Components, PostgreSQL, Backbone, Webpack, Gulp.

Pixel2HTML

Lean Engineer, Fullstack | 2016 - 2019

  • Created tooling for the rest of the team to work on frontend development.
  • Designed and engineered pixel perfect designs for Furtune100 companies.
  • Ensured SEO and pagespeed metrics were of the highest standards.
  • Built and mantained Shopify stores, Ionic Mobile Apps (AngularJS), ReactJS and VanillaJS apps. Styled with SASS, Styled-Components, Stylus.
  • Stack: React, JavaScript, Shopify, Liquid, Wordpress, AngularJS, Sass, Styled-Components, Stylus, Ionic.

Education

Self-taught Software Development 2013 - Present

Learning while applying the skills on the field allowed me to tighten the feedback loop in order to progress at a much faster rate than some of my peers while solving real world problems.

Tec de Monterrey Bachelor in Business Administration | 2012 - 2016

Having a degree in Business Administration helps me understand the language and terms used commonly on businesses which helps me stay focused and in line with the goals of the company I may work with.

Skills & Technologies

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, SQL, YAML.

Frontend: React, Next.js, Astro, TailwindCSS, React Native, Shopify, Wordpress.

Backend: Node.js, Express, Bun, GraphQL, REST APIs, WebSockets, Django.

Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, Linux.

Data & ML: PostgreSQL, Redis, Prompt Engineering.

Tools: Git, GitHub, Neovim, Figma, Linear, Notion, Slack, Jira.

Spoken Languages

English: Native Spanish: Native