Mauricio Cárdenas
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Zapopan, Mexico
Toptal member since April 15, 2026
Mauricio is a senior full-stack developer with nearly 10 years of experience with multiple tech stacks and frameworks. He is skilled in Node.js, React, NestJS, Java, Python, the C3.ai platform, and others. He is very passionate about learning new technologies and always aims to deliver a great product.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 7 years
- React - 7 years
- SQL - 5 years
- Node.js - 5 years
- Java - 3 years
- C3.ai - 3 years
- Python - 2 years
- Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Slack, Teams, Cursor AI, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Claude Code
The most amazing...
...application I've developed was a working demo for AMD, which was built in 2 weeks from scratch and helped close a huge deal.
Work Experience
Full-stack Developer
C3.ai
- Designed, planned, and developed one of the most successful products in C3.ai within the Supply Chain suite.
- Became the team leader for the development team, and led the engineering efforts for multiple deals, including a contract with AMD.
- Created multiple products from scratch and did major contributions to the product quality and value.
- Mentored multiple generations of engineers and became a source of knowledge for other engineers, helping create connections between teams and nurture a knowledge-sharing environment.
Full-stack Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
- Worked in a strong Agile environment and pushed toward improving Agile culture in the team.
- Developed, documented, and deployed features for credit card services in a banking project.
- Managed a small team of 4 contractors in a banking project. This included mentoring, leading, and reporting to stakeholders on performance.
- Contributed to the credit card service migration to a newer tech stack, resulting in performance and security improvements.
Full-stack Developer
Lumston
- Created a very succesful parking payment application, currently used in most big malls in the country. Designed the database, infrastructure, and back-end services for the mobile app.
- Refactored and maintained a point of sale with millions of transactions per month.
- Built a very good relationship with ITESM University, and closed multiple deals to build pilots and custom applications for them, resulting in a considerable cash investment in the company.
Experience
Parco, a Parking Lot Payment App
https://parcoapp.com/Drizline
Tata Consultancy Services | Full-stack Developer Work
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of the Atemajac Valley - Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Certifications
Data Mining
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Software Development Lifecycle
University of Minnesota
Deep Learning
DeepLearning.AI
Agile Development Specialization
University of Virginia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, PHP 6
Tools
Claude Code, Slack
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, SQL, C#, Swift, Python
Frameworks
Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Alexa Skills Kit (ASK)
Paradigms
Agile
Platforms
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Apache Kafka
Other
C3.ai, Front-end Development, AI-assisted Development, Data Modeling, Teams, Cursor AI, Coding, Software, System Requirements, Deep Learning, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning
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