Experience
12+
Years shipping web and mobile products across full-stack, leadership, and automation roles.
Team led
14
Largest cross-functional team I have led across product, design, frontend, and backend.
Cycle Time
-75%
Reduced release lead times by optimizing CI/CD pipelines and automating quality gates.
Community
100+
Typical attendance for ReactJS Colombia meetups, workshops, and talks.
Work Experience
Professional roles.
Client and product work across teams and industries.
Active
May 2025 – Present
Smith Commerce
Senior Front End Developer
Rebuilt Marcone's storefront into a faster, more accessible headless experience, lifting Lighthouse from 35 to 98 while giving teams room to ship independently.
Next.js React.js TypeScript Turborepo Tailwind CSS
+28
Completed
Jan 2025 – Jul 2025
X Games
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Built and scaled the official X Games digital platform — a high-traffic sports media site serving millions of fans — with real-time live streaming, geo-based access control, and a programmatic ad infrastructure powered by Google Ad Manager.
Next.js React.js JavaScript SCSS Sanity CMS
+18
Completed
Feb 2023 – May 2025
Void.GG
Technical Lead
Led architecture and delivery for a fast-moving esports platform across web, mobile, and backend systems, improving performance, release speed, and team velocity.
React.js Next.js TypeScript React Native NestJS
+52
Completed
Jul 2021 – Feb 2023
Optic Power
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Shipped across gaming, SaaS, and martech products in parallel, improving API performance by 40% while supporting launches for Team Liquid, NurtureBoss, and Stardust.gg.
React.js Next.js TypeScript Node.js Redux
+50
Side Projects
Built for the love of it.
Open source, community work, and experiments.
Active
Jun 2026 – Present
Dep Beacon
Creator
Built and published a VS Code extension that brings npm dependency status, update targets, pnpm workspace catalog context, and OSV security signals into package manifests.
VS Code Extension TypeScript Node.js Astro pnpm
+13
Active
May 2026 – Present
Santi020k Chrome Theme
Creator
Designed, packaged, and published a Chrome Web Store theme that brings the Santi020k VS Code palette into browser chrome with token-mapped surfaces and zero permissions.
Chrome Extension Chrome Web Store Manifest V3 JavaScript CSS
+11
Active
Apr 2026 – Present
Santi020k Theme
Creator
Designed and shipped a VS Code theme extension with matched dark and light variants, marketplace publishing, registry automation, and a focused documentation site.
Visual Studio Code VS Code Extension Theme Design JavaScript Node.js
+10
Active
Jan 2026 – Present
Astro Doctor
Creator
Built a deterministic Astro health-check toolkit with a CLI, ESLint plugin, editor extension, GitHub Action, docs site, and installable agent skills.
Astro TypeScript Node.js ESLint VS Code Extension
+8
Writing
Thoughts on building and leading.
Articles on architecture, automation, and engineering decisions.
Astro Doctor: A Health Check for Astro Codebases
Why I built Astro Doctor: a CLI, ESLint plugin, editor extension, GitHub Action, and agent skill system for catching Astro anti-patterns early.
Jun 22, 2026
What Is New in @santi020k/eslint-config-basic v2.0
A practical tour of the shipped @santi020k/eslint-config-basic v2.0 release: ESLint 10, one main install, lazy frameworks, lite mode, monorepos, CLI checks, and AI standards.
Jun 20, 2026
Why Developer Experience Work Should Be Measured Like Product Work
DX improvements that cannot be measured rarely survive long enough to compound. Treating them like product work changes that.
Jun 12, 2026
Playwright Accessibility Checks That Teams Keep Running
How to add accessibility automation to your Playwright suite in a way that is fast enough to stay in the workflow and specific enough to actually catch problems.
May 15, 2026
Beyond the code
Speaking & Community.
Co-organizing ReactJS Colombia and speaking on DX, automation, and engineering leadership at local and regional events.
ReactJS Colombia
Co-organizer
Building the local React community through meetups, workshops, and knowledge sharing.
Technical Talks
Speaker
Sharing practical insights on DX, architecture, and engineering leadership.