Alejandro Chaves
A decade of shipping
I started in web agencies, spent years on enterprise platforms, and now run a small studio focused on production AI. Same approach throughout: build what works, measure it, ship it.
Experience
Founder · Devbloom — devbloom.dev
2024 — now
Running Devbloom — a studio building custom AI-powered software. Recent work: Spectra, Patitas, Toller, and an AI expense tracker.
Senior Frontend Developer — S4N · an EPAM Company
Oct 2023 — now
Senior frontend on internal notification tooling for Hulu (Disney). React, TypeScript, GraphQL — wiring clean integration between frontend and backend. Also built AI-powered web apps with React + OpenAI + Node for Thomson Reuters.
Senior Founding Engineer — Miter
2022 — 2023
Founding engineer on a user-facing AI meeting assistant. Designed and shipped dynamic in-meeting widgets (brainstorming, voting), realtime sockets, API integration, and PostgreSQL schemas.
Sr. Frontend Developer — Hourly
2021 — 2022
Front-end on a B2B payroll + insurance product. Built custom design-system components, migrated legacy class components to hooks, and pushed heavy Redux flows to pixel-perfect UIs.
Senior Frontend Developer — Gorilla Logic
2020 — 2021
Senior frontend on client engagements through Gorilla Logic — React-first codebases, maintainable component architecture, and close collaboration with design.
Ssr. Web UI Developer — Globant
2019 — 2020
Ssr. Web UI developer across three Disney projects: Disney Parks ticket-buying components in Polymer, plus Disney Studios internal apps on React + Node and Angular 9 + Ngrx.
Jr. Full-Stack Developer — Knowbly Learning Systems
2018 — 2019
Full-stack on an LMS B2B product. Built the authoring UI in Vue.js, realtime notifications over socket.io, and shipped pixel-perfect designs hand-in-hand with the designer.
Front-End Developer — BASE16 SAS
2017 — 2018
Started my career building MEAN-stack responsive apps — a kids' clothes-fit wizard, an e-commerce platform for a fruits company, and a hybrid document app, all designed and built from scratch.
Selected work
Devbloom — Next.js · React 19 · Gemini · GCP
My consultancy studio — a small team shipping custom AI-powered software. Next.js marketing site, Gemini-backed tooling, and a growing portfolio of real client work.
Spectra — Next.js · Gemini Vision · Firebase · AntD
AI-powered vinyl wrap visualizer. Upload a car photo, pick finishes from a catalog, and Gemini generates photorealistic renders. Includes a shop admin, community gallery, and Firebase-backed finish inventory.
Patitas — PWA · Wompi · Firebase · Gemini
PWA connecting Colombian animal shelters with monthly sponsors. Slot-based recurring payments via Wompi, adoption workflow, booking system, AI-generated animal profiles, and a realtime shelter admin dashboard.
Toller — Angular · Mapbox · PWA · Realtime
PWA that helps drivers plan routes across Colombia with realtime toll cost estimates, interactive maps, and department-level clustering for 100+ toll stations.
Expense Tracker — React Native · OCR · Gemini · Firebase
AI-powered expense tracker PWA. Scan receipts with your camera to auto-log expenses, manage budgets, recurring transactions, and shared finances — with clean visual reports.
Stack
Frontend: React / Next.js, Angular 2+, TypeScript, HTML5 / CSS3 / SCSS, Ionic / React Native, Vue
AI / ML: Google Gemini (Vision + LLM), Claude API / Anthropic, RAG + vector stores, Prompt engineering / evals, OCR / computer vision
Backend: Node.js / Express, Firebase / Firestore, MongoDB / SQL, Python
Platform: Google Cloud / AWS, Docker / CI·CD, PWAs + service workers, Git / GitOps
Craft: UI/UX design principles, Figma / Adobe XD, SEO + analytics
Testimonials
“He ships. He doesn't just build things — he finishes them, and they work in production.”
— Former colleague · Senior Engineer, Globant
“One of the best frontend hires we made. Deep React instincts, pragmatic with design, and unusually calm under deadline pressure.”
— Former teammate · Founding Team, Miter
“Gave us pixel-perfect work every sprint and somehow still moved fast. He's the engineer you want between your designer and your product.”
— Former colleague · Product Designer, Knowbly