Devan Huapaya

Summary

Versatile full stack engineer with 8+ years experience blending design intuition with deep technical range. Delivered secure, scalable apps for health, research, and startup environments. Strong in React, Node, and TypeScript.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer Consultant

Home Tax Shield

Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
  • Developed a web portal to enable client's support teams to efficiently manage over 12K real estate property tax appeals and over $7M in assets utilizing the code-lite platform Retool, Typescript, and websockets.

Senior Software Engineer

GenUI

Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
  • Technical lead on multiple project teams to successfully deliver early-stage products for Microsoft Research and the health research sector, Utilized React, TypeScript, NextJS, and Node.js to develop secure, scalable solutions that handled sensitive data and met strict compliance requirements combined budget of $1M.
  • Architected and built a full stack dev kit with React, NextJS and Prisma for launching two client projects. This production-ready tooling generated over $1.5M in revenue and saved over $100K in startup costs.
  • Developed unit tests, end-to-end tests, typesafe architectures, and formatting tools to ensure project stability in Playwright and Jest, reducing post-deployment defects and improving application reliability.
  • Collaborated on cross-team efforts to provide support for various projects across polyglot codebases that enhanced speed of development by 30 percent. Codebases included C Sharp, Python, Elixir and PHP.
  • Mentored junior engineers in React, TypeScript and client communication best practices, leading to increased code quality and team efficiency.

Full Stack Development and Design

Freelance

Jan 2017 - Mar 2021

Delivered fullstack apps for startups and nonprofits that generated more than $200K in revenue. Development spanned across React, Node.js, and typescript for diverse domains and platforms used by more than 10K monthly active users.

Selected Projects

  • Evan360 (Hybrid Mobile App): Launched a cross-platform app, design system, and backend API for an "Uber-for-IT" service resulting in more than $25K in client revenue. Stack included React, Sails.js, and PostgreSQL. Also built scalable multi-tenant infrastructure for white label enterprise deployments.
  • GoodToday (Subscription Management and Website): Built landing page and subscription signup used to support nonprofit donation subscriptions and fundraising that helped raise more than $500K for charities.
  • Get Biofuel (Web App and Landing Page): Developed a web app helping users locate 5K+ clean fuel stations using React, Gatsby, the WordPress API, and Google Maps API.

Full Stack Software Engineer

IBM

Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
  • Implemented frontend and backend contributions for internal platforms used by more than 80K IBM employees
  • Modernized tooling for over 8K agile teams through Slack, GitHub, and TravisCI integrations

Skills

Frontend

React, TypeScript, NextJS, Redux, Tailwind, React Native, Jest, Playwright, CSS, UX, build tooling

Backend

Node, Express, PostgreSQL, SQLite, GraphQL, Docker, SSR, AWS Lambda, Python, Go, CI/CD, Ruby

Tools

Cursor, Greptile, agentic development workflows, Bash scripting, Figma

Education

B.S. in Computer Engineering

Texas A&M University

2015