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About

I'm Giancarlos.

Software engineer based in Lima. Currently working as Principal Frontend Engineer at Crehana.

Story

I started writing code for the web in 2015 — small sites, internal tools, the kind of work where you wear every hat. Self-taught, following curiosity from one topic to the next. That habit hasn't gone anywhere.

Specialty

My specialty is React and the infrastructure beneath the frontend. I've spent close to 9 years at Crehana — I joined in 2017 as a Frontend Developer and grew into the role I have today: Principal Frontend Engineer on the platform team. Most of my work lives on three fronts: React at scale and micro-frontend architecture with autonomous deployments; build tooling and compilers (Webpack 1→5, Rspack, Modern.js, Babel/SWC, custom Node.js CLIs); and CI/CD, where I cut the main pipeline from 60 to 15 minutes and took Lighthouse from below 7 to 80+ on the main e-commerce pages.

Beyond frontend

My technical curiosity doesn't stay put on the frontend. What's been pulling me lately is understanding what sits underneath the tools I use every day: bundlers, compilers, parsers, type checkers. Over the last two years that turned into real backend footing — Go at an intermediate level, with four production-grade projects (JWT auth, rate limiting, WebSockets, PostgreSQL), and Python with Django and FastAPI. Right now I'm learning Rust, getting closer to the layers of the stack I usually consume from above.

Stack

What I use day to day. I keep a close eye on what the community is shipping and reach for the best tool for the job — often the newer, faster ones:

Frontend & UI
React, TypeScript, Next.js (advanced configurations, App Router, Server Components), Tailwind CSS, styled-components
Backend
Go (JWT APIs, rate limiting, WebSockets, PostgreSQL), Python (Django, FastAPI)
Data
GraphQL with Apollo Client, REST where it fits
Build & tooling
Rspack and Rsbuild for fast builds, Rslib for libraries, Rspress for documentation sites, Rsdoctor for build analysis, oxc for Rust-based JS tooling (parsers, transforms, analyzers); Webpack and Babel for custom configurations, Turborepo and Lerna for monorepos, Node.js for scripting (commander.js, plop.js)
Linting & formatting
Biome for linting and formatting, Rslint for TypeScript-aware linting
Exploring
Rust

Work

Crehana

Lima, Peru

  1. Principal Frontend EngineerJul 2023Present
  2. Senior Frontend Engineer (Platform)Oct 2021Jul 2023
  3. Lead Frontend DeveloperJan 2018Oct 2021
  4. Frontend DeveloperJul 2017Dec 2017

WSNPro

Peru

  1. Frontend DeveloperNov 2016Apr 2017

devAcademy.la

  1. Web DeveloperMar 2016Oct 2016

Hospital Regional de Ica

Ica, Peru

  1. Web DeveloperSep 2015Feb 2016

Hobby

I keep a parallel track to the day job: CLIs, generators, small libraries, the occasional one-off experiment. webpack-nexus, generate-next-app, generate-index-file, a changelog generator — most of them started as a tiny annoyance I refused to do twice. Some of them found other users. None of them owe me anything.

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Contact

Best way to reach me is email. I read everything; I reply when I have something useful to say.

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