Jesús Alberto Escamilla Silva
Software Engineer · Engineering Leader
12 years building software — and the teams that make it possible.
↓Experience
Led 4 multidisciplinary teams with 7 principals and 30+ engineers, aligning engineering with product and business in a fintech operating across 7 countries.
Led a 9-person team and increased release cadence by ~60% by building a culture of frequent delivery and parallel development.
Defined and standardized frontend practices across the engineering area — architecture, linting, testing, and documentation — impacting 6 multidisciplinary teams.
Led 8 frontend engineers and defined the engineering department culture at the CTO's request — every team member now holds a leadership role.
Trained 22 developers in React and Node.js, several with no prior programming experience.
Skills
- Multidisciplinary team leadership
- People development
- Stakeholder management
- Roadmap planning
- Kanban / OKR
- Hiring & team growth
- Team culture
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- Vue.js
- React
- Node.js
- Frontend architecture
- AWS
- LLMs / Generative AI
- SSO / Advanced authentication
- Jira / Atlassian
- SonarQube
Projects
Interactive educational platform to practice algorithms and data structures, with step-by-step SVG visualizations and progress saved locally.
Procedurally-rendered scale model of the solar system; explore from the Sun to Voyager 1 with linear, orbital, and mission modes.
Fullstack serverless app with a Kanban board for personal task management, Google authentication, and AWS deployment.
Serverless system that ingests GBM PDF statements, extracts movements and holdings, and surfaces them in a portfolio analytics dashboard.
Serverless AWS system that detects buy/sell signals on BMV and SIC stocks using Bollinger Bands and RSI.
Informal tic-tac-toe: play against an unbeatable minimax machine or with a friend on the same device.
Forest-themed arcade snake with an AI versus mode and fruits that lose value over time.
Physics-based landing game: pilot a rover through the atmosphere of 12 planets, collect minerals, and escape into space.
Modern Tetris with 15 difficulty levels, Super Rotation System, T-Spins, combos, and a tactical hold. Bilingual.
Static blog of notes and essays on economics and physics, paired with a local authoring tool for writing without touching Markdown by hand.
Interactive periodic table with all 118 elements and 3D Bohr-model animations, a 20-molecule visualizer, and a bilingual chemistry dictionary.