RODRIGO LEON

Full Stack Engineer · Temecula, CA / Remote

• Served as full-stack engineer with lead frontend ownership building core React/Laravel solar operations platform spanning dashboards, validation workflows, shared component library, and finance interfaces used by sales, operations, and finance teams to manage 534K+ customer projects.
• Built Laravel funding automation with Horizon jobs, custom commands, DTOs, API service wrapper, validation, and exception ticketing, scaling submissions from 74 to 1,551/month while cutting processing from 45 to under 5 minutes.
• Launched interactive dashboard supporting ticketing and task workflows, replacing third-party CRM using React, Laravel, Context API, and React Query, increasing customer project intake capacity by 40% for 300+ ops, sales, and finance users.
• Led development of React shared component library with schema-driven form builder, centralized modal system, and async state renderer using Tailwind and Material UI, eliminating duplicate UI work and cutting UI development time in half.
• Architected configurable add-on pricing rules engine using Laravel schema/controllers, React configuration UI, role-gated access, and mocked project state, replacing hardcoded pricing logic and reducing pricing errors.
• Led two-engineer build of configurable project validation tool using Laravel schema/controllers, migrations/seeders, React review UI, API comparison results, and workflow triggers, surfacing checkpoint issues before final audit and cutting tickets by 10%.
• Engineered solar panel monitoring interface charting API-backed metrics for panel power generation, actual vs guaranteed performance, and degradation over time using Recharts, covering 142K customer projects representing $4.5B in value.
• Designed equipment recommendation database end to end using Laravel models, migrations/seeders, controllers, React Query, CSS Modules, and validation logic, reducing selection errors tied to project rework and finance rejections.
• Owned commissions interface replacing spreadsheet-based payout tracking system using schema-driven rendering, Lodash, useMemo, and useCallback, enabling branch managers to manage and incentivize monthly payouts for 500+ sales reps.
• Designed and maintained interactive data visualization timeline for customer project milestones using CSS, Material UI, custom Day.js wrapper, and Axios, giving teams at-a-glance visibility into progress, gaps, and upcoming work.
• Shipped custom MCP servers, BrowserBase automation, and AI skills into production, enabling teams to absorb a 20x submission volume increase without adding headcount.
• Overhauled FreedomForever.com WordPress site by creating configurable page-building blocks using Laravel Blade, React, and Tailwind, enabling users to design pages without engineering support, improving accessibility and performance metrics from C to A.

Lead Frontend Web Developer · Newport Beach, CA / Remote

• Served as lead frontend developer at digital agency managing WordPress-based web presences for 300+ dental and medical clients, working across distributed team through full agency project lifecycle from scoping to delivery.
• Owned development of WordPress theme framework using PHP, Bootstrap, JavaScript, standardizing structure and conventions across distributed team, improving delivery efficiency by 60% and mentoring developers through documentation and code review.
• Consolidated 100+ individually VPS-hosted sites into WordPress Multisite installs, implementing custom plugins and accessibility features across all installs, improving PageSpeed by 40% and reducing infrastructure overhead across the entire client portfolio.
• Developed custom WordPress directory platform from scratch building custom theme and plugin using PHP, custom post types, and Customizer fields, powering reputation and review management for 300+ dental and medical practices.