Chris Melendez

Chris Melendez

Software Engineer

Biography

Hola! I'm a full stack developer with experience in leveraging technology to solve real-world challenges. I specialize in building robust, scalable web applications and crafting intuitive user interfaces. I am also passionate about robotics.

Skills

Frontend

Javascript
Typescript
React/React Native
Angular
HTML
CSS

Backend

Python
Java
NodeJS
C++
MongoDB
OpenCV

Cloud and Infrastructure

Git
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Unity
Serverless

Experience

  1. Evotrux

    Software Developer

    Evotrux

  2. Zen Maker Lab

    STEM Instructor

    Zen Maker Lab

  3. Raven

    Co-Founder

    Raven Support Network

  4. Varian

    Software Engineer

    Varian Medical Systems

  5. ICM

    Teaching Assistant

    International College of Manitoba

  6. Wawanesa

    Innovation Lab Application Developer 1

    Wawanesa Insurance

  7. UofM

    Robot Programmer

    Autonomous Agents Lab

Education

  1. UofM

    BSc. Computer Science

    University of Manitoba

Competitions

FRC 2025 - British Columbia
FRC 2025 - British Columbia

Mentoring for Team 9292 - Zen Maker Lab (OrcaOverdrive)

Mentored Grade 7-12 students in FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), focused on leading the software team

February 26, 2025

Robot Magic and Music: Humanoid Application Challenge
Robot Magic and Music: Humanoid Application Challenge

Robots and humans jamming together!

2nd place at IROS 2019 Macau representing team Snobots for University of Manitoba with a robot band (a robot pianist, a robot drummer, a human DJ and a human guitarist)

November 11, 2019

FIRA 2019 South Korea - Hurocup Kid Size
FIRA 2019 South Korea - Hurocup Kid Size

Robot olympics in South Korea!

4th place in participation with team Snobots-KidSize for University of Manitoba in a robot olympics

August 25, 2019

FIRA 2018 Taiwan - Hurocup Kid Size
FIRA 2018 Taiwan - Hurocup Kid Size

Robot olympics in Taiwan!

4th place in participation with team Snobots-KidSize for University of Manitoba in a robot olympics

August 23, 2018

Portfolio

Sites people actually use, apps I've shipped, and the vision and robotics work that got me here.

quienpostula.net
QuienPostula homepage
2026Built & shipped solo

QuienPostula

Independent explorer for Peru's 2026 general elections: presidential tickets, 60 senators and 130 deputies, filterable by party and department, cross-checked against JNE records, televised debates and national press.

Next.jsReactTailwind CSS
threebranchsupply.com
Three Branch Supply homepage
2025Design, build & SEO

Three Branch Supply

Storefront for a marine and industrial supplies company: product categories, cart, and contact flow, built on a hosted site platform and tuned for local search.

Web buildE-commerceSEO
BBApp
2024Mobile app

BumpBites

Cross-platform mobile app for tracking nutrition through pregnancy, with a shared design system across iOS and Android.

React NativeTamaguiExpo
BAApp
2024Backend & inference

BumpBites AI

The service behind BumpBites: a containerized Python API on Azure that turns meal photos and free-text logs into structured nutrition data.

PythonAzureDockerOpenAI
STWeb
2022Side project

SpotiTool

Web app that sorts a messy pile of liked Spotify songs into playlists, driven entirely by the Spotify Web API.

AngularTypeScriptSpotify API
SSWeb
2021Team project

SyncStream

Map-driven listening app that syncs what people nearby are playing, mashing up Google Maps and Spotify.

ReactBootstrapGoogle Maps APISpotify API
TSWeb
2025Personal site

This site

The site you're on. App Router, Tailwind v4, screenshots captured at build time, deployed on Vercel.

Next.jsReactTailwind CSS
ODRobotics
2019Computer vision

Object Detector

Ball and arrow detectors used by our humanoid robots to find targets on the field in real time.

PythonOpenCV
OSRobotics
2019Navigation

Obstacle SLAM

Mapping and obstacle-avoidance pipeline on ROS, letting a robot chart a route through a course it hasn't seen before.

PythonOpenCVROSNumPy
PPRobotics
2019Vision & motion

Piano Player

Program that had a Robotis-OP3 humanoid read and play a piano keyboard — the robot pianist from our IROS 2019 robot band.

PythonOpenCVROSNumPy