Despegar.com
Techincal leader at Despegar.com. Despegar is a leading online travel agency in Latin America. It essentially acts as a comprehensive travel marketplace where users can easily find, compare, and book a range of travel-related products and services.
Skills Involved
Leadership • Architecture • Java (Spring) • Scala • MongoDB • Angular Material • React • Javascript • Freemarker
At Despegar, I had the opportunity to lead different teams towards:
- the implementation of the web mobile version of the site, focusing on performance and usage of a dedicated mobile API
- maintaining several internal tools to assist mobile development (mainly a configuration service and the push notifications service)
- building a custom front end (Angular + Material UI) for managing push notifications
- migrating the data model for mobile customers (from PostgreSQL to MongoDB)