Manuel Obregozo
@manuobre
Product-minded software engineer with 14+ years building user-facing products in React and JavaScript.
What I'm looking for
I’m a product-minded software engineer and Tech Lead with 10+ years building user-facing products and frontend platforms across the JavaScript and React ecosystem. At Pleo, I own product problems end-to-end in the activation domain—partnering with Product and Design to define scope, navigate trade-offs, and ship early—iterating with metrics to drive ~16% higher feature adoption and faster learning cycles.
I’ve shaped technical decisions at scale in complex frontend platforms, including a TurboRepo monorepo with 70+ packages and 20+ teams, improving standards and performance through evolving data-loading patterns. I also bring hands-on depth from prior work like rebuilding a visualization system with D3 and Visx (improving large-dataset loading by ~20%), and from my earlier CTO & Co-Founder experience building and evolving a Stencil/Ionic PWA and React/Vite backoffice—always pairing technical ownership with real customer and usage feedback.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Owned activation product problems end-to-end and shipped early with Product and Design, improving feature adoption by ~16% and accelerating learning cycles. Drove frontend platform decisions in a TurboRepo monorepo with 70+ packages and 20+ teams, and introduced Claude Code workflows for React code explanation and code reviews.
Built and iterated onboarding and early-stage user flows to reduce friction and improve activation, shipping incremental changes guided by early metrics. Contributed to shared frontend foundations to improve loading times and drive adoption of React Router v7 with TanStack Query data-loading patterns.
Worked on a third-generation rewrite of a data visualization system with D3 and Visx, improving large-dataset chart overlay rendering by combining Canvas and SVG for ~20% faster loading. Co-created component APIs for a design system and stayed hands-on in performance-critical code while tightening feedback loops with designers.
Defined and executed messaging SDK initiatives that increased transaction rates across global marketplaces, shaping technical decisions with a strong product perspective. Owned backlog prioritization and trade-offs and partnered with engineering to validate outcomes through usage.
CTO & Co-Founder
ServiteOnline
Jul 2018 - Aug 2022 (4 years 1 month)
Co-founded and built a profitable early-stage product for ~50 loyal customers, owning full product delivery across PWA, back office, and website. Built and iterated a lightweight Stencil and Ionic PWA, a customizable React/Vite backoffice, and a Next.js commercial website, including a pandemic pivot to self-organized store work workflows based on customer feedback.
Built a high-usage shared chat Vue.js SDK adopted across multiple markets, reducing maintenance and customization requests using Tailwind and modern frontend practices. Introduced CSS variables, grid-based layouts, and lazy loading to improve scalability and delivery speed across teams.
Frontend Developer / Consultant
Rabobank
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020 (2 years 1 month)
Contributed to a large-scale platform migration by supporting 50+ teams (350 developers) and 300+ features serving ~4M active users. Designed and rolled out a new Nx-based Angular monorepo, moving from a distributed AngularJS application and establishing shared tooling and foundations.
Built and integrated frontend features with Angular and AngularJS for banking web and hybrid mobile apps using Ionic for enterprise clients. Delivered production code in a client-facing environment with a focus on correctness and reliability while working within complex legacy integrations.
Frontend Developer
Norsync
Jan 2016 - May 2017 (1 year 4 months)
Built web and hybrid mobile applications with Ionic from scratch in an early-stage startup, covering the full lifecycle from research to submitting apps to app stores. Shipped solutions across multiple business domains and owned responsibilities spanning frontend architecture through delivery.
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