Alberto Campos Hernández

Sr. Front-End Engineer & Practice Lead @ Svitla Systems

Senior software engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, building, and shipping production software across the full stack — from REST and GraphQL APIs to web and mobile interfaces. Combines strong engineering fundamentals with applied AI integration, alongside a Master's in Applied Artificial Intelligence (ITESM, GPA 9.8) and a track record across professional, academic, and entrepreneurial contexts.

Aguascalientes, México

Experience

Sr. Front-End Engineer & Practice Lead

Jun 2022 — Present
Svitla Systems
Svitla Systems
Remote (Aguascalientes, México)
  • Architect and develop React/TypeScript front-end applications for automotive and enterprise clients, implementing SSR, dynamic code-splitting, and performance optimisation strategies.
  • Act as practice lead for a team of 30+ engineers across LATAM, providing technical guidance and sharing industry best practices.
  • Deliver internal tech talks, sharing knowledge of the latest technologies and trends across engineering teams.
  • Conduct technical interviews for candidates to ensure the engineering quality bar is upheld across the company.
  • Define and enforce front-end architecture patterns across teams, conducting code reviews and establishing coding standards that reduced production defect rates via SonarQube gate enforcement.
  • Drive CI/CD pipeline improvements through Jenkins, shortening release cycles and increasing deployment reliability across multiple concurrent client engagements.
  • Collaborate directly with product, design, and QA stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable component-based architectures and define test scenarios during sprint planning.
  • Mentor other developers, providing one-on-one guidance and supporting their growth on industry best practices.
React
TypeScript
Next.js
SCSS
Context API
Atomic design
Jenkins
SonarQube
Jest
AWS Lambda
Git
Gitflow

Professor

May 2023 — Aug 2025
Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Aguascalientes
Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes, México
  • Designed curriculum, practical assignments, and assessment rubrics aligned with industry standards across seven undergraduate courses in AI, cloud, and software engineering.
  • Mentored students through team projects, providing code reviews, technical guidance, and one-on-one support to help them progress toward industry-ready skills.
  • Collaborated with academic peers on program planning and continuous improvement of course content based on emerging technologies and student outcomes.
  • Subjects taught:
    • Programming for Artificial Intelligence
    • Cloud Databases
    • Database Systems
    • Object-Oriented Programming
    • Data Structures
    • Operating Systems
    • Cybersecurity
Python
Java
C++
PyTorch
scikit-learn
Pandas
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
AWS
Linux
Bash
Git

Sr. Full-Stack Engineer

Sep 2020 — Jun 2022
Irys
Irys
San Antonio, TX (Remote)
  • Designed and built end-to-end features across web and mobile — from GraphQL/REST API design in Node.js/Express to React Native components published to iOS and Android.
  • Participated in all phases of the software development lifecycle, from product definition and prototyping through to production release.
  • Built prototypes and engaged in full-stack application development to validate product hypotheses with stakeholders.
  • Integrated AWS AppSync and Amplify for real-time data synchronisation, reducing perceived latency and improving offline resilience for mobile users.
  • Authored technical design documentation covering architecture decisions, API contracts, and the underlying methodology behind each design choice.
  • Collaborated with QA on sprint-level test scenarios to cut regression cycles, and contributed to peer code review to safeguard overall software quality.
React
React Native
Node.js
Express
GraphQL
AWS AppSync
AWS Amplify
AWS Lambda
AWS DynamoDB
AWS Cognito
Git

Professor

Sep 2021 — Dec 2022
Universidad Tecnológica de Aguascalientes
Universidad Tecnológica de Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes, México
  • Designed curriculum, practical assignments, and assessment rubrics aligned with industry standards across multiple undergraduate courses in modern web and mobile development.
  • Mentored students through team projects, providing code reviews, technical guidance, and one-on-one support to help them progress toward industry-ready skills.
  • Collaborated with academic peers on program planning and continuous improvement of course content based on emerging technologies and student outcomes.
  • Subjects taught:
    • Progressive Web Applications
    • Mobile Development
    • Web Development
    • Software Architecture
    • Service Oriented Web Applications
    • Web Applications for Industry 4.0
React
React Native
JavaScript
TypeScript
HTML5
CSS3
Node.js
Express
GraphQL
AWS Amplify
AWS Cognito
AWS AppSync
AWS DynamoDB
Git

Jr. → Mid → Sr. Full-Stack Engineer

Aug 2017 — Sep 2020
Thincrs
Thincrs
Guadalajara, México
  • Progressed from Junior to Senior in three years; owned the full product — landing page, admin portal, and REST API — end-to-end, from architecture through production deployment.
  • Built and deployed Python (scikit-learn) ML prediction models exposed via a Laravel REST API, consumed by both web and mobile clients in production.
  • Integrated the REST API with React and Angular front-ends, ensuring consistent contracts across multiple consumers.
  • Migrated legacy Angular codebase to React, reducing bundle size; built Puppeteer scrapers and configured Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for GitLab repositories.
  • Involved in the planning and design phases for new applications, contributing to scope, architecture, and roadmap decisions.
Angular
React
Node.js
Laravel
PHP
Python
scikit-learn
MySQL
Jenkins
Git

Full-Stack Developer

Jan 2019 — Dec 2020
Universidad Tecnológica de Aguascalientes
Universidad Tecnológica de Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes, México
  • Full-stack development across multiple internal projects using the MEAN and MEIN stacks.
  • Led cross-functional teams and contributed to planning/design phases for new applications.
  • Subject teacher for multi-platform application development, mentoring junior developers and students.
MongoDB
Express
Angular
Bootstrap
Node.js
TypeScript
Ionic
Git

Projects

Scribo — AI-Powered macOS Meeting Assistant

In progress
Independent project
  • Building a native macOS application — both menu-bar and full desktop experience — for AI-powered meeting recording, real-time transcription, and smart note-taking, with LLM-based summarisation and action-item extraction.
  • Full product ownership: Core Audio pipeline for system and microphone capture, SwiftUI interface following macOS HIG across menu-bar and desktop windows, and Anthropic/OpenAI API integration for contextual note generation.
Swift
SwiftUI
Core Audio
Anthropic API
OpenAI API
Xcode

Education & Courses

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) Jan 2024 — Mar 2026
Master's in Applied Artificial Intelligence — GPA 9.8 / 10
Universidad Tecnológica de Aguascalientes
Universidad Tecnológica de Aguascalientes Sep 2016 — Aug 2020
B.Eng. in Information Technologies Engineering — Graduated with Honors (9.6 / 10)
Universidad Tecnológica el Retoño
Universidad Tecnológica el Retoño 2014 — 2016
TSU (Associate) in Information Technologies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2020
Leading Digital Transformation (online)
Algonquin College
Algonquin College Sep 2019 — Dec 2019
Programming & IT Management — Academic Exchange (Ottawa)
Pima Community College
Pima Community College Aug 2016 — Dec 2016
ESL & Business Management — Academic Exchange (Tucson)
Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes Mar 2018 — Jun 2018
Android Development Course
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning 2019
Visual Studio Code Course
Platzi
Platzi 2019 — 2020
Carrera Bases de Datos Carrera Escuela de Inglés Carrera Desarrollo Backend con Go Curso de Java SE Curso de Go Curso de MongoDB Curso de Buenas Prácticas Curso de HTML y CSS Curso de Seguridad Informática Curso de PHP con Laravel Curso de POO Curso de Redes de Internet Curso de SCRUM Curso de SQL y MySQL Curso de Bases de Datos Curso de Línea de Comandos Curso de Google Cloud Platform
MongoDB University
MongoDB University Aug 2019
MongoDB Basics
HackerRank
HackerRank Sep 2020
JavaScript Basics REST API Intermediate

Publications

Understanding the Crowd Markets that Workers and Requesters Imagine

2019
ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2019)
ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2019)
Pittsburgh, PA
  • Carlos Toxtli, Juan Pablo Castillo, Alberto Campos, Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Kotaro Hara, Chris Callison-Burch, Jeffrey Bigham, Kristy Milland, Abigail Adams, Saiph Savage

Current Stack

TypeScript
JavaScript
React
SCSS
Storybook
Jest
SonarQube
GitHub Actions
Jira
Swift
SwiftUI
Xcode
Anthropic API
OpenAI API
Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow
scikit-learn
Pandas
Git
Supabase

I Have Used

Next.js
React Native
Tailwind CSS
Redux
Zustand
React Query / SWR
Expo
Ionic
Node.js
Express
GraphQL
Flask
Django
FastAPI
Laravel
PHP
AWS
AWS Lambda
AWS DynamoDB
AWS AppSync
AWS Amplify
Firebase
Jenkins
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
SQLite
Figma
Postman

Languages

Spanish
Native
English
C1 — ITEP certified

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web ServicesID: HLQ960NK8JBQ189Q
Fundamentals of Deep Learning
NVIDIA Deep Learning InstituteID: 1tO0Ys3ITkGJkXM3sgBKrQ
Generative AI with Diffusion Models
NVIDIA Deep Learning InstituteID: TauXuWfURMOBYNutOVkopw
Certificado de Alta Especialidad: Inteligencia artificial y aprendizaje automático
Tecnológico de MonterreyAug 5, 2024
Certificado de Alta Especialidad: Visualización de datos
Tecnológico de MonterreyAug 5, 2024
Certificado de Alta Especialidad: Internet de las cosas y redes de sensores
Tecnológico de MonterreyApr 20, 2024
Certificado de Alta Especialidad: Ciencia de datos
Tecnológico de MonterreyApr 20, 2024
Generative AI in Action
IBM SkillsBuildJun 16, 2025
Getting Started with Enterprise Data Science
IBMMar 16, 2024

Awards

Universidad Tecnológica de AguascalientesAguascalientes, México
Honorable Mention — B.Eng. in Information Technologies

Recognised with the best GPA across all engineering majors (9.6 / 10), graduating with honors.

2020
Universidad Tecnológica el RetoñoAguascalientes, México
Honorable Mention — TSU in Information Technologies

Recognised among the top GPAs in the IT associate degree class.

2016 — 2018
Talent NetworkGuadalajara, México
Talent Hackathon Finalist

Finalist team — built a web app analysing sentiment of news on Twitter to detect and classify fake news.

April 2018
Talent NetworkTokyo, Japan
Rumbo a Japón

Recognised as one of the 10 young promises of the state, with meetings with authorities across multiple cities in Japan.

April 2014

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