Areas of expertise

  1. Product engineering

    Full-stack products from architecture to deployment: web, mobile and APIs.

    • Eight products shipped or in progress under Chu Ventures
    • Next.js SSR and ISR for a national news site

    React, Next.js, React Native, Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, TypeScript

  2. WordPress at scale

    Enterprise WordPress on VIP: Gutenberg blocks, multisite, headless.

    • Gutenberg block framework adopted org-wide at Disney
    • Indeed.com multisite in 19 languages
    • 400 sites built and deployed at GoRead

    WordPress VIP, Gutenberg, PHP, ACF, Multisite, WooCommerce

  3. Payments in Latin America

    Money movement where cards are not the default: bolívares, pesos and USDT.

    • VEXPay: Pago Móvil, débito inmediato, VPOS, PSE, Nequi, Bre-B and USDT
    • Live auctions settled in USD or bolívares at LaGanga

    NestJS, PostgreSQL, Webhooks, Stripe, RevenueCat

  4. Infrastructure and leadership

    Owning the stack and the decisions as a CTO and founder.

    • CTO of Corofy, owning the AWS serverless infrastructure
    • Teams grown from 2 to 15 across Latin America and the US

    AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Vercel, BigQuery

  5. AI and machine learning

    LLM tooling in daily work and a prediction platform on Gemini.

    • 2025 Google Cloud x MLB Hackathon: Best of Challenge 5 (prospect prediction)

    Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Ollama, Python