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Steven Mendez

Product Software Engineer · AI-Native Architect · Costa Rica

Architecting production systems with Claude in the loop at every layer — schema design, security review, refactor planning. Not autocomplete, partner.


About

I architect and ship complete products — from raw observation to production system across any vertical: medical, legal, notarial, entertainment, psychological coaching, real estate, B2B institutional. The substrate changes; the discipline doesn't.

Currently leading the Software Factory at Dojo Coding Labs — the internal studio for taking problems from any vertical and turning them into shipped production systems. End-to-end ownership of the full product lifecycle: environment exploration, spike authorship, architectural diagrams, schema and primitives, infrastructure wiring, application logic, payment systems, UI/UX design, frontend, security hardening.

Most software dies between MVP and production. The code works in the demo, then collapses the moment a real user does something unexpected. My focus is the gap between those two states — the part most engineers find tedious and most founders underestimate.

"The bottleneck in modern software isn't writing code. It's clarity: how deep you look before building, and what you choose not to ship."


Currently Shipping

Dojo OS Dojo OS — Web3 and AI software development learning platform with multi-pillar architecture (Pathways, Projects, Hackathons, Launchpad, Marketplace, Community)
Dojo Projects Dojo Projects — The trust layer of Dojo OS. Not a freelance marketplace — a Score-contribution engine with notarial-grade attestations, Stripe escrow, dual-signature flows, and a 4-layer notarial UI grammar built from scratch
MenteFut MenteFut — AI mental coaching platform for footballers, with Jeaustin Campos (former head coach of the Costa Rica National Team) as official voice and ambassador
Hikari Hikari — B2B institutional platform · scaffold to v1.0-beta in 3 days · subledger engine with DECIMAL accrual · audit trail across 7 tables · onboarding state machine

Tech Stack

Frontend

React Next.js TypeScript Tailwind CSS Vite shadcn/ui

Backend & Data

Python FastAPI Supabase PostgreSQL Edge Functions

Payments & Infrastructure

Stripe Vercel

AI & Agents

Claude Claude Code OpenAI RAG Systems

Observability

PostHog Langfuse Sentry


Experience

Software Factory · Lead Product Engineer — Dojo Coding Labs

Oct 2024 - Present · Remote · Costa Rica

Lead engineer of the Software Factory inside Dojo OS — the studio that takes problems from any vertical and turns them into shipped production systems. End-to-end ownership of the full product lifecycle: environment exploration, spike authorship, architectural diagrams, schema and primitives, infrastructure wiring, application logic, payment systems, UI/UX design, frontend, security hardening.

Owner of the Dojo Projects pillar end-to-end:

  • Notarial-grade marketplace with Stripe Connect escrow, dual-signature attestations, milestone gates, dispute resolution
  • 4-layer notarial UI grammar built from scratch for trust-critical interactions
  • Stake-weighted reputation protocol with on-chain-grade attestations
  • Bilateral tier filtering · score-gated access · 11 pgTAP RLS suites passing

Enterprise & custom engagements: Bespoke client work end-to-end through the Factory — same operating model applied to Hikari, MenteFut, and on-demand enterprise builds. No templates, each solution thought from primitives.

Architecture & Primitives: Three-layer API with circuit breaker · TanStack Query hooks · query-key factory · Custom Dojo Design System with dual visual language (Dashboard vs Landing) · 31 pentest-derived security rules.

Stack: React 19 · TypeScript · Next.js · Vite · Tailwind · Supabase (Postgres + RLS + RPC + Edge Functions) · Stripe Connect · Resend · Mux · TanStack Query · Langfuse · PostHog · Claude API · Claude Code


Co-Founder · Lead Full-Stack Engineer — Box Architects

2024 - Present · Remote · Costa Rica

Co-founded and built a full-stack architecture and real estate platform for property management and visualization in Guanacaste. Custom Google Earth/Maps integration for 3D land visualization, geospatial polygons, and topographic analysis. Secure due-diligence portal with auto-deletion privacy controls. Extended with Avalanche smart contracts for transaction transparency. Pitched at Blockchain Jungle 2025.

Stack: React · TypeScript · Python · FastAPI · Google Maps API · Avalanche


Full-Stack AI Developer — UnchAIned

2024 · Remote · Contract

Independent contributor at an early-stage startup transforming digital marketing through AI. Built pipelines integrating OpenAI GPT-4, Claude Sonnet, and DALL·E to automate large-scale personalized marketing content for partners including Honda and Disney. Designed an AI marketing automation generator that interpreted user input as structured JSON and produced text, image, and video assets at scale.

Stack: Python · FastAPI · React · Next.js · TypeScript · OpenAI API · Claude API · DALL·E


Full-Stack Developer — QSoft Costa Rica

2023 · Remote · Contract

Led end-to-end development of an Android warehouse management application with barcode and QR scanning workflows for traceable production. Built in Python with modular architecture, real-time data processing, and secure database synchronization — meeting logistics-industry reliability standards.


Certifications

Anthropic — Building with the Claude API · Claude Code in Action · Introduction to Agent Skills Udemy — Generative AI, LLM Apps & AI Agents · Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp · 100 Days of Code Python IBM — Introduction to Software Engineering · Introduction to Cloud Computing Google — Foundations of Data Science · Get Started with Python · Translate Data into Insights


Manifesto

Ship the system, not the snippet. Hardening before users. Clarity is the bottleneck.


Connect

LinkedIn GitHub Email


One operator. Multiple verticals. From observation to production.


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