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16 years · the last decade for US companies · Remote from Guadalajara, US time zones

Alan Maldonado

Lead Software Engineer building analytics, experiments and funnels.

days–weeks → 1–⁠3 days
to launch a new landing page at Bizee
+15% production
driven by Fuel, the Shopify app I led at Scalable Press
1 of 3 architecture leads
setting direction for Bizee's software organization

Where I've worked

  • Bizee
  • Earnest
  • Dow Jones / WSJ
  • Scalable Press

Selected work

About

Portrait of Alan Maldonado

I've spent 16 years building web products, the last decade with US companies — student lending at Earnest, news at Dow Jones and Fox, e-commerce at Scalable Press, and most recently Bizee, where I owned analytics and attribution and was one of three engineers setting architecture direction.

The work I enjoy most sits between engineering and the business, from instrumenting a funnel to measuring an experiment to shipping the change that moves the number.

I stay hands-on. Outside of work I built Orbit Player, a media player for Apple TV, and took it from first commit to the App Store in two weeks. I'm based in Guadalajara and work US hours.

Also shipping

Orbit Player

A media player for Apple TV, built in Swift and SwiftUI and taken from first commit to App Store release in two weeks.

View on the App Store →

Experience

  1. Mar 2024 – Oct 2026

    Bizee

    — Lead Software Engineer

    Built analytics and attribution from scratch, led the Vue 2 → 3 migration without pausing delivery, and helped move landing pages to a CMS that cut launches from days or weeks to 1–3 days.

  2. Feb 2020 – Feb 2024

    Wizeline · Earnest

    — Senior → Staff Software Engineer

    Four years on Earnest's private student loan origination funnel in React; grew into tech lead and, as concurrent Associate Engineering Manager, guided teams through a restructuring.

  3. May 2019 – Jan 2020

    Scalable Press

    — Senior Software Engineer

    Technical lead of Fuel from day one, a Shopify print-on-demand app that drove +15% production and held a top-5 spot in its category for several months.

  4. Jul 2016 – May 2019

    Wizeline · Dow Jones / WSJ

    — Software Engineer → Senior

    JavaScript, Node.js, Python and AWS for WSJ, Barron's and MarketWatch; Vue and Nuxt for Fox News and Fox Business.

  5. 2010 – 2016

    Earlier — Neoris, Nubeware, Homex

    — Software Engineer

    .NET, SQL Server and ETL work, including my first projects for US clients.

How I work

  • One of three engineers setting architecture direction for Bizee's software organization, with decisions that shape the roadmap.

  • Mentoring at scale, with career tracking for 20+ engineers and coaching for 10+ new engineering managers.

  • Steady through change. I helped teams through a restructuring that removed the manager layer, looking after people's stability while leadership was rebuilt.

Contract work

While I look for my next full-time role, I take on focused contract work for teams that need results quickly.

  • Analytics & tracking audit

    Amplitude, GTM, Meta Conversions API and TikTok events checked end to end, so your funnel numbers can be trusted.

  • Landing pages & Core Web Vitals

    Faster pages and structured data that help both conversion and search.

  • Vue / Laravel delivery

    Senior hands to ship features, migrations or upgrades in your existing Vue or Laravel codebase.

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