Rodrigo Cervantes — Senior Software Engineer

Guadalajara, MX · rod.cervs@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/rodrigocs · https://rod.cervs.dev/

React · React Native · TypeScript · Node.js · GraphQL · SQL · AI-assisted development

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building web and mobile products in React, React Native and TypeScript. High-ownership and team-focused, with a track record of shipping quickly in large codebases and cross-functional remote teams alongside product, design and QA on high-traffic products. Experienced with AI coding agents and spec-driven development as ways to ship faster without lowering quality.

Experience

PepsiCo (US) — Senior Frontend Engineer

Mar 2025 – Present · Remote

• Drove adoption of testing, refactoring and coding standards in a legacy codebase, raising test coverage from 0% to 80%.
• Improved project architecture and developer experience, increasing web stability, scalability, performance and accessibility.
• Owned the app's "Review and Approval" workflow end to end: a multi-user, role-based system for submitting, reviewing and approving work across many permission and state combinations, within a 50+ engineer organization.
• Partnered with product managers, designers and QA to scope, build and ship features from spec to release.
• Tech: React, React Native, Next.js, TypeScript, REST, Jest

Tripadvisor — Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2022 – Mar 2025 · Guadalajara, MX · Remote

• Core member of the AI Trip Planner team; shipping features that improved user retention by 30%.
• Launched every feature as an A/B test with multiple variants, analyzed the results and progressively ramped winning variants to wider audiences.
• Migrated legacy Java-rendered pages to React, significantly reducing load times through code-splitting and memoization.
• Built user-facing pages serving ~100M monthly visits, with integration and unit testing, observability and accessibility best practices.
• Helped build Reco, a Tripadvisor spin-off connecting travelers with expert trip designers, increasing engagement through streamlined messaging and UI improvements.
• Built ad placements driving traffic between Tripadvisor and Reco, designed and tested carefully to protect existing ad revenue.
• Took part in architecture, system design and planning sessions on every project, where designs required full team agreement before sign-off; also joined project kickoffs and daily code reviews.
• Worked day to day with product managers, designers, QA and the native iOS and Android engineers on the same team, and coordinated with teams across the company and third-party partners on integrations.
• Tech: React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Jest, Mocha, Chai, Cypress, Playwright, Storybook

FreeAgent CRM — Full-Stack Developer

Feb 2019 – Jan 2022 · Guadalajara, MX · Remote

• Led core mobile and platform development; delivered automation features for custom funnels (Form Rules, Custom Code Actions, Applets) that drove customer retention and adoption.
• Designed the Grouping API for flexible aggregations and reporting, and shipped the Zapier integration to extend customer workflows.
• Interviewed, mentored and onboarded new engineers.
• Tech: React, React Native, Node.js, Express, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS

SoGro Media — Mobile Lead

Jun 2018 – Feb 2019 · Guadalajara, MX

• Led a supermarket mobile app; introduced a design system and refactored the architecture around best practices.
• Improved app performance by 80% by moving to Redux and Redux-Saga and migrating animations to the native side.
• Owned CI/CD and over-the-air releases; quickly learned Ruby on Rails and became backend lead as well.
• Tech: React Native, Ruby on Rails, Heroku

Corpa Labs — Software Engineer

Jan 2016 – Jun 2018 · Guadalajara, MX

• Built delivery, parking and taxi platforms at scale across web, mobile and back end.
• Tech: React, React Native, Node.js, LoopBack, AngularJS, AWS

Skills

• Frontend & mobile: JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, React, Next.js, React Native, Redux, Storybook, responsive design, accessibility (a11y)
• Backend & data: Node.js, Express, GraphQL, REST, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails
• Testing & experimentation: Jest, Playwright, Cypress, Mocha, Chai, A/B testing
• Cloud & delivery: AWS, Heroku, CI/CD, OTA releases, observability
• AI tooling: Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Ollama, spec-driven development

Education

Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial (CETI) — Guadalajara, MX

B.Eng. in Software Development · Jan 2016 – Aug 2020