Ian Mora

Technology Lead and Systems Engineer based in Costa Rica. I design, build and ship full-stack products end to end: architecture, frontend, backend, infrastructure, CI/CD and observability. I also mentor junior engineers and interns.

• Main stack: Node.js, Next.js and React
• Day to day: scalable web architectures, automated deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure and CMS platforms (AEM)
• Current focus: agentic engineering, building with LLMs, and making AI coding agents work reliably on real codebases
• Ask me about: Node.js, Next.js, React, AEM, CI/CD, Docker, AWS, Claude Code

Agentic coding (Claude Code)

• CLAUDE.md architecture: root + per-directory files with path-scoped rules for monorepos
• Hooks (PreToolUse) to filter verbose tool output and keep the context window lean
• Subagents and task routing, custom skills (global and project-level), plugins and slash commands
• Token and cost optimization: context hygiene, prompt-cache awareness, MCP cost management
• Codebase knowledge graphs for agents, so they query structure instead of reading files one by one
• Spec-first workflow: requirements → architecture decisions → agent-driven implementation and review

LLM-powered applications

• Built a ChatGPT-style chat application on top of LLM APIs
• RAG / few-shot retrieval with MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and local models via Ollama
• AI-generated summaries inside an internal QA and automation Chrome extension for AEM teams
• Turned an AI demo into a live, interactive arcade game for a company-wide design event
• Prompt design for UI generation (design vocabulary, style and aesthetic prompting)

Assistants: Claude (Claude Code, Projects, Skills, Connectors) and ChatGPT

Area	Technologies
Languages
Frontend	App Router · Server Components · TanStack Query · React Hook Form · Zod · Handlebars
Backend	REST · OpenAPI / Redoc · Socket.IO · Passport.js · JWT (jose) · RBAC
Data	Mongoose · Sequelize · MongoDB Atlas · Airtable · MariaDB · SQL Server
Cloud & Infra	AWS EC2 · Docker Compose · Cloudflare (CDN, WAF, DNS) · Certbot / SSL · PM2 · Render
CI/CD & Release	SSH deploy pipelines · staging → production flows · Conventional Commits · release-please · commitlint · husky · SemVer
Observability	Loki · Promtail · cAdvisor · Node Exporter · Redis Exporter · prom-client
Testing	Playwright · Insomnia
CMS	Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) · Apache Maven · Apache Tomcat
Tools	Jira · Confluence · WSL

Architecture & practices: Clean Architecture · Domain-Driven Design · Modular Monolith · Event-driven design · API-first · Multi-environment deployments · Infrastructure monitoring · Technical mentoring