Nicolás Montiel

Hi, I'm Nico.

Senior/Principal full-stack software engineer based in Paraguay and Argentina, with 8 years of experience, including 5+ years working fully remote with distributed teams across product, platform, and integration-heavy environments.

Strong backend depth across PHP, Laravel, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB, with hands-on work building scalable APIs, integrations, platform features, and internal engineering workflows.

Comfortable shipping user-facing work with Vue.js, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Astro, and Preact, while also owning delivery workflows across AWS, Laravel Forge, VPS environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and production operations.

Experienced using Codex, Claude, Gemini, MCP servers, and skills-based workflows to improve delivery speed, debugging, and engineering productivity, plus hands-on work integrating OpenAI and Google Gemini into real product and automation systems.

Experience

Updated recruiter-focused experience aligned with current role scope, responsibilities, and technical ownership.

Principal Software Engineer

Amazing Inc · June 2024 - Present

Amazing builds software products focused on Amazon product research, brand analysis, AI-powered insights, and seller enablement.

  • Designed and developed new platform features for Amazon product analysis using Laravel, Vue.js, React, and TypeScript, improving user experience and expanding customer analytics capabilities.

  • Built AI-powered workflows with OpenAI, Perplexity AI, and Google Gemini to automate content generation, product intelligence, and internal analysis processes.

  • Optimized backend architecture and database queries to improve platform responsiveness, contributing to a usage increase of up to 70%.

  • Streamlined deployment and infrastructure workflows with Laravel Forge and AWS EC2, reducing manual release effort and accelerating delivery cycles.

  • Implemented analytics, monitoring, and error-tracking systems using Sentry to track feature adoption, user behavior, performance metrics, and production issues, enabling faster product decisions.

Stack

PHP Laravel TypeScript Vue.js React AWS EC2 LF Laravel Forge OpenAI Gemini Perplexity AI Sentry

Certifications and courses

Continuous learning across software engineering, cloud, quality, and delivery.

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

AWS Cloud fundamentals, core services, security, the shared responsibility model, basic arch...

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Meta: Advanced React

Meta: Advanced React

Create robust and reusable components with advanced techniques and learn different patterns...

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Search and Conversions for Agencies: A Data-Driven Framework

Search and Conversions for Agencies: A Data-Driven Framework

Organic agency growth with emphasis on SEO, conversion rate optimization, demand-focused con...

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Test-Driven Development for JavaScript Specialization

Test-Driven Development for JavaScript Specialization

JavaScript and TypeScript testing with Jest, mocking, meaningful coverage, and a TDD mindset...

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Redis | RU102JS: Redis for JavaScript Developers

Redis | RU102JS: Redis for JavaScript Developers

Using Redis from Node.js and JavaScript: connections, data access, useful data structures, a...

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Scrum Fundamentals Certified

Scrum Fundamentals Certified

Scrum principles, roles, events, and artifacts, with a clearer foundation for iterative deli...

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API's and Microservices

API's and Microservices

Backend work with Node.js, npm, and Express, plus API and microservice design, with hands-on...

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Introduction to Jenkins

Introduction to Jenkins

Jenkins fundamentals for automating builds, tests, and CI/CD pipelines, with a better grasp...

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