Miguel Peniche

UI / UX Product Designer & Full Stack Developer

Summary

Hey there. I’m Miguel, developer and designer on a mission to improve human experiences through design, creativity and art in every possible way. I’m humble and kind, but also passionate and ambitious. With a background in marketing and startups, I know the value of crafting state of the art Saas solutions keeping stakeholders objectives in mind while focusing and understanding final customer needs. Hope to hear back from you 🔜

Know How

  • Simplicity above all, less is more.
  • Clean and cutting edge designs.
  • Focused on details, pixel perfect.
  • Fluent english communication.
  • Design systems / dark and light themes.
  • Ultra fast learning curve.
  • Mission-driven delivery tasks.
  • Extremly organized work files & layers.
  • Domains and hosting management
  • I’m not afraid to be wrong.

Experience

Mentalia CTO, UI / UX Designer & Full Stack
Mexico City, MX. Online training and AI content generation. Feb 2015 -> Present
Designed branding, design system, developed mobile and web app. I manage all digital aspects of the company, from hosting to mail accounts, SSL, domains, etc.
React / React Native, Ruby on Rails, Tailwind, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, Heroku
Accountable Ruby on Rails Senior Developer
Remote -> Texas, US. Compliance. Oct 2021 -> Mar 2022
Helped to grow the web application with creation of new features and bug fixes, as well as improving performance by reducing code redundancy, database queries, eager loading.
Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Tailwind, Hotwire
Benzinga UI / UX Product Designer
Remote -> Detroit, US. Trading ideas. Aug 2019 -> Aug 2021
I collaborated with the creation of a fully consistent design system for improving website, dashboard and landing pages visual appearance for a better user experience, focused in new users acquisition.
Figma, Sketch App & Animaapp
Raisehub Co-founder, CTO, Full Stack
Mexico City, MX. Equity Crowdfunding. Nov 2015 -> March 2017
Co-founded an amazing Startup. Created the branding, design system & developed a web app that communicates with other rest API's.
Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, Heroku
Berkeley University Full Stack Developer
Remote -> California, US. Education. Jun 2015 -> Dec 2015
Designed, developed & launched a fully working web application for their program "Cool Campus Challenge", a friendly competition to reduce UC's carbon footprint.
PHP, MySQL

Achievements

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (Sep 2021).
  • Marketing Degree in Mexico City’s UNITEC (2009 -> 2013 gen.).

Skills

Design & Prototyping

  • Figma 4Y
  • Illustrator 10Y+
  • Photoshop 10Y+

Coding & Magic

  • Ruby on Rails 8Y
  • Typescript 4Y
  • React JS 4Y
  • React Native 4Y
  • HTML 5 15Y+
  • Tailwind v4 3Y
  • CSS 3 15Y+
  • SCSS 10Y+
  • Rspec 6Y
  • Hotwire 2Y
  • Expo 4Y
  • Node JS 4Y
  • PostgreSQL 7Y
  • MySQL 15Y+
  • MongoDB 3Y
  • jQuery 10Y+

Other Important tools

  • Slack 6Y
  • Asana 6Y
  • Git 6Y
  • Heroku 6Y
  • Amazon AWS 6Y
  • Domain hosting panels 15Y+
  • Postman 6Y
  • Rest API's 6Y
  • Visual Studio Code 8Y