Javier Lougedo
Senior SDE & Tech Lead at Typeform · Professor of applied AI at UNIR
Madrid, Spain · remote-first, EU hours
Experience
- 2025–now
Senior SDE & Tech Lead · Blocks · Typeform
- Tech Lead for Blocks, the shared platform behind the form builder and renderer; drive cross-repository delivery across React/TypeScript frontends, Forms API, submissions and Go services.
- Built the foundation for Stripe subscription payments end to end: plan selection, Stripe Elements, 3DS flows, server-side creation and verification, and a provider abstraction that keeps PayPal viable without a rewrite.
- Led PayPal integration work across builder and renderer: connection management, safe disconnection, live-preview behaviour, SDK error handling and payment-service monitoring.
- Technical bridge across Product, Design, Data, SRE and Integrations: shaping scope, estimating work, reviewing PRs, mentoring teammates and unblocking delivery.
- 2024–2025
SDE · Site team · Typeform
- Shipped growth experiments end to end on the public site with Optimizely (hypothesis, implementation, targeting, tracking validation, QA, rollout and the ship/kill call) across signup, navigation and homepage surfaces.
- 2024–now
Professor of data analytics and applied AI · UNIR
- Teach applied AI, data analytics and programming fundamentals in UNIR's Master's Degree in Business Innovation and Transformation with Artificial Intelligence, to cohorts of ~110 students from business, economics and law backgrounds.
- Build retrieval and agentic workflows with students: chunking, embeddings, vector stores, retriever agents, guardrails and MCP, with n8n, Flowise, Make and locally-run models.
- Built a multi-agent assessment pipeline that drafts individual rubric-based feedback for the full cohort; supervise Master's theses on applied AI and business.
- 2024–2025
Freelance developer · MIKE
- Platform giving real estate workers instant AI-powered legal consultation.
- 2023–2024
Web analyst & developer · Openbank
- Launched and led the cards vertical for one of the group's banks.
- Standardised imports across all web teams and documented the frontend codebase.
- 2021–2023
Frontend developer · HeyTrade
- Built the mobile and web trading apps with React and React Native; supervised trainees and ran tech interviews.
- Led the credit/debit card payments integration with checkout.com.
- Improved onboarding conversion by over 50% through user-data analysis and ML, and automated monthly investor reporting with Python and Pandas.
Education
- 2025–2026
Tech MBA · Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)
Final thesis on Intelligence-as-a-Service architectures built on MCP.
- 2017–2021
Computer Engineering · Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Additional summer coursework in Data Science, Machine Learning and Cloud.
Skills
- Programming languages
- TypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsGoPythonSQLHTML/CSS
- Frameworks and platforms
- ReactReact NativeNext.jsAWSKubernetes
- Growth and payments
- A/B testingOptimizelyLaunchDarklyStripePayPalSubscription billing
- AI and automation
- n8nFlowiseMCPOllamaChromaDBClaude Code