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Luis A. Acurero

Experience

Career history and domain focus areas across product engineering, design systems, and platform work.

Oct 2022 — Present

Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead

Apply Digital

Lead six engineers across eight enterprise client ecosystems. Drive Svelte 5 and SST v3 migrations, Contentful architecture audits, micro-frontend e-commerce (Next.js), a custom MJML email builder for marketers, and serverless pipelines (AWS Lambda, Twilio Segment, Braze).

Jan 2021 — Dec 2022

Frontend Developer & Tech Lead

Reign

Promoted to Tech Lead within six months; managed up to seven engineers on a multi-tenant pharmaceutical e-commerce platform (Angular, Tailwind, Contentful) across Chile, Ecuador, and Colombia. Shipped PLP, PDP, cart, and checkout with Webpay and MercadoPago, Atomic Design libraries, and Web Vitals/SEO tuning.

Jan 2020 — Aug 2025

University Professor

Universidad Rafael Urdaneta

Taught software architecture, component-based programming, databases, and full-stack/mobile development. Mentored capstone theses and led coursework for hundreds of students with industry-standard code review practices.

Jan 2020 — Dec 2020

Full Stack Engineer & Backend Tech Lead

Waku, Casa de Software

Backend Tech Lead for a municipal tax platform serving 30+ organizations. Built dynamic forms (Node.js, PostgreSQL), a custom payment ledger, RBAC with OAuth, reporting automation, and co-delivered a React B2B project management product on Heroku.

Oct 2022 — Present

Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead

Apply Digital

Lead six engineers across eight enterprise client ecosystems. Drive Svelte 5 and SST v3 migrations, Contentful architecture audits, micro-frontend e-commerce (Next.js), a custom MJML email builder for marketers, and serverless pipelines (AWS Lambda, Twilio Segment, Braze).

Jan 2021 — Dec 2022

Frontend Developer & Tech Lead

Reign

Promoted to Tech Lead within six months; managed up to seven engineers on a multi-tenant pharmaceutical e-commerce platform (Angular, Tailwind, Contentful) across Chile, Ecuador, and Colombia. Shipped PLP, PDP, cart, and checkout with Webpay and MercadoPago, Atomic Design libraries, and Web Vitals/SEO tuning.

Jan 2020 — Aug 2025

University Professor

Universidad Rafael Urdaneta

Taught software architecture, component-based programming, databases, and full-stack/mobile development. Mentored capstone theses and led coursework for hundreds of students with industry-standard code review practices.

Jan 2020 — Dec 2020

Full Stack Engineer & Backend Tech Lead

Waku, Casa de Software

Backend Tech Lead for a municipal tax platform serving 30+ organizations. Built dynamic forms (Node.js, PostgreSQL), a custom payment ledger, RBAC with OAuth, reporting automation, and co-delivered a React B2B project management product on Heroku.

Proficiency

Architectures & Design

  • Micro-frontends & multi-tenant headless systems

  • Atomic Design & B2B SaaS architecture

  • Dynamic form systems & RBAC

Frontend Ecosystem

  • React.js, Next.js, Angular & Svelte

  • Tailwind CSS, Storybook & Web Components

  • Web Vitals & Prerender.io SEO

Backend & Platform

  • REST API design

  • Postgres & serverless data stores

  • CMS integration & caching

Backend & Cloud

  • Node.js (Nest.js, Fastify, Express)

  • AWS Lambda, Terraform & Docker

  • BFF architecture, Nginx, Vercel & SST v3

Data & Marketing

  • PostgreSQL & MySQL

  • Contentful, ContentStack & Storyblok

  • Twilio Segment, Braze & Algolia