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Jesus Manuel

Hernandez Zozaya

Senior Software Engineer · Tech Lead

7+ years building high-scale consumer products. Specializing in React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and distributed frontend architecture. Led cross-functional initiatives serving hundreds of millions of users globally.

About Me

I am passionate about building, maintaining, and scaling performant web applications with clean code. My work spans the entire lifecycle—from architecting client-side interactions to service definition and backend design. With a strong foundation in frontend development and extensive full-stack experience, I thrive at the intersection of technical depth and product impact. I enjoy leading teams, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality products that delight users and drive business success.

Frontend Development

Building responsive, accessible, and performant user interfaces with React, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks.

Full Stack Expertise

Creating end-to-end solutions with React, NodeJS, and various backend technologies to deliver complete applications.

Technical Leadership

Guiding engineering decisions, planning architecture, and coordinating with business stakeholders to deliver successful products.

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer (MTS 1)

Apr 2023 - Feb 2026
PayPal

Senior Full Stack Engineer and lead on the Digital Wallet team, overseeing card management, bank linking, and fund transfers related operations for PayPal's 400M+ global user base.

Led the Digital Wallet team's integration into PayPal's federated super graph architecture, powering the next-generation iOS and Android app for 400M+ users. Drove adoption of a server-selected components pattern that reduced data-fetching latency by 2x, guiding 20+ engineers and team leads through the implementation.

Engineered the GraphQL layer and Next.js UI flows for a confidential next-generation in-device wallet initiative targeting a tier 1 software company. Delivered the end-to-end card provisioning experience including security compliance flows with Visa and Mastercard.

Architected the client-side and API layer for Money Pools, a cross-functional fund-sharing product that drove +$30M in Total Payment Volume.

Co-led the rebuild of PayPal's global add card experience on web, delivering a plug-and-play architecture used across all markets with 2x performance improvement.

Technologies:ReactTypescriptNextJSGraphQLApolloReduxNodeJSJenkinsGithub

Front End Tech Lead

Mar 2021 - Apr 2023
AutoZone

Guided the frontend engineering decisions for the Customer team inside autozone.com. Planned new work, architecture of new features, coordination with business, releasing new versions to production and communication with stakeholders.

Designed and developed with the customer team, the frontend implementation of the key products recommendation feature inside a product details page. This feature increased weekly sales by 20%.

Technologies:ReactTypescriptNextJSReduxNodeJSJenkinsGitlabTanStack-query

Systems Engineer

Oct 2021 - Apr 2023
AutoZone

Enhanced and created complex frontend flows as well as new features for autozone.com. Improving flows like sign in, create account, rewards program, and orders history.

Refactored a whole suite of react components to use the hook pattern, reducing complexity, moving away from class components, removing boilerplate code, and reducing overall file size.

Technologies:ReactTypescriptNextJSReduxNodeJS

Systems Engineer Assoc

Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
AutoZone

Designed and implemented new features for the Customer team inside autozone.com. Worked on the refactor of the profile page, reducing code complexity, making it mobile first and increasing overall load speed.

Technologies:ReactJavaScriptReduxNodeJS

Software Developer

Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
Ellucian

Developed custom UI interfaces with different levels of complexity and backend services for web-based applications.

Helped to improve the frontend development flow related to code transpilation with webpack and linting enhancements for standardization.

Implemented and contributed to a proprietary React Component Library (based on Material UI) and integrated a complete proprietary Design System (which included a theme palette, images, and wording guides).

Technologies:ReactTypescriptASP.Net MVC 5SQL ServerJenkins

Education

Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)

B.S. Robotics and Digital Systems Engineering

Graduated with honorable mention of excellence in 2017

GPA: 95/100

Technical Skills

JavaScriptTypeScriptReactReduxNextJSHTML5CSS/SCSSTailwind CSSMaterial UIShadcnTanStack QueryStyled Components

Languages

English C1 BULATS / 571 TOEFLSpanish (Native)

Major Projects

Brokxr
My own company project — founded, architected and built from the ground up a Full Stack insurtech platform to manage the complete policy lifecycle for insurance brokers. Designed a data access layer and DTO architecture to handle policy management, client tracking, prospect pipelines, renewal workflows, premium receipt generation, and multi-channel client communication.
Next.jsFirebaseShadcnTanStack QueryVercel
Wallet into Federated Super Graph
Led the Digital Wallet team's integration into PayPal's federated super graph architecture, powering the next-generation mobile app for 400M+ users. Drove adoption of a server-selected components pattern that reduced data-fetching latency by 2x.
GraphQLApolloReactTypeScript
PayPal Global Add Card
Co-led the rebuild of PayPal's global add card experience on web, delivering a plug-and-play architecture used across all markets with 2x performance improvement.
ReactTypeScriptNextJSRedux

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jesus@jmherzo.com

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