Melo Velarde

Develop full-stack capabilities for an AI-powered construction platform, building production interfaces with React, Next.js, and TypeScript, and designing Node.js APIs and asynchronous services. Reduced API response time from 1.2s to 450ms and deployment time from 25 to 10 minutes.

Led architecture and development of integrations across OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft for authentication, calendar synchronization, messaging, and meeting ingestion. Reduced meeting-ingestion processing time from 90 to 35 seconds and cut incomplete and duplicate integration jobs by 65%.

Designed AWS event-driven and serverless services with API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, and SQS supporting shipment, tracking, notification, and finance operations. Reduced event-processing latency from 800ms to 280ms and increased peak shipment-event throughput by 3x.

Delivered a customized Shopify storefront supporting product discovery, responsive shopping, purchasing, and checkout. Reduced key storefront page-load time from 4.2 to 2.1 seconds and designed a Robot Framework regression-testing strategy.

Designed and launched a responsive JavaScript product website showcasing planter styles, dimensions, and customization options. Improved product discovery across desktop and mobile through clearer information architecture and navigation.

Delivered web and mobile software for clients including Grab, British School Manila, and healthcare organizations. Built production applications using Node.js, Express, REST APIs, WordPress, Android, and third-party integrations.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a focus on Software Technology, completed in 2015.