The engineer behind MehLabs

Hugo
Iturrieta.

From business needs to working software.

Full-stack developer delivering production applications, from ERP platforms and public services to integrations and AI-assisted workflows. I build, troubleshoot, and improve the systems people rely on every day.

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Full-Stack Developer · Principal Engineer & Founder

Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Years of experience: 4+; Building production applications
End-to-end delivery: Full-stack; From requirements to deployment
English proficiency: C1; Based in Argentina

01 / Career

Experience that ships.

Hands-on work on business-critical software, shared infrastructure, and production systems.

Mar 2025 — Present

Grape Software

Full-Stack Developer
- Work as a full-stack developer at a product company, contributing to an ERP used by two leading national distributors of tools and industrial supplies.
- Build SaaS features, payment integrations, and operational dashboards for multi-tenant products.
- Own the company’s shared Angular Core, reused across all projects, including routing, authentication, and compatibility between releases.
- Work independently and proactively identify and deliver product improvements beyond assigned tasks, receiving positive feedback on those contributions.
- Resolved an initialization and routing race condition, addressed backend and authentication security issues, and integrated Google and Mi Argentina OAuth.
- Support incident investigation, code review, onboarding, and safe releases with API versioning and feature flags.
AngularTypeScriptSaaSOAuth
Oct 2024 — Aug 2025

Agencia Nacional de Seguridad Vial

Developer · Temporary contract
- Was primarily responsible for maintaining a large, critical software system. After the external provider’s contract ended, took over responsibilities previously handled by its team.
- Used AI tools to successfully cover the maintenance work previously carried out by that team.
- Reduced SQL Server query time from approximately 4 seconds to 30 ms through query rewrites, indexing, and execution-plan analysis.
- Resolved database deadlocks and reliability issues affecting critical systems.
SQL ServerSQLPerformance
Apr 2023 — May 2025

Government of the City of Buenos Aires

Junior Developer
- Worked as a junior developer with responsibilities spanning software development and solution design.
- Earned the Tech Lead’s trust and took on responsibilities they delegated to me.
- Helped decompose a legacy monolith into six microservices on Kubernetes behind an API Gateway.
- Worked on Angular interfaces, NestJS and .NET APIs, and PostgreSQL/PostGIS services, including production troubleshooting in legacy systems.
AngularNestJS.NETPostgreSQL / PostGISKubernetes
Jun 2021 — Apr 2023 · Jun 2025 — Present

Freelance

Full-Stack Developer & Consultant
- Manage the full client and project lifecycle: find clients, understand their needs, design the solution, validate it with them, and prepare the project quote.
- Develop and deliver the agreed solution end-to-end, including integrations, deployment, and operational improvements.
- Built a computer-vision workflow for shipping labels with human validation, increasing throughput from about 80 to 1,000 labels per day.
- Implemented an AI-assisted WhatsApp agent that queries business APIs and escalates out-of-scope requests to a human operator.
IntegrationsComputer visionAIWhatsApp

02 / Selected work

Built around real needs.

A selection of freelance projects and studio cases across enterprise software, public services, and automation.

~80 → 1,000 Labels processed per day

Freelance · Logistics

Shipping label automation

A computer-vision workflow with human validation for processing logistics shipping labels.

Computer visionHuman validationAutomation

AI + human Business APIs with operator handoff

Freelance · Business integrations

AI-assisted WhatsApp agent

An agent that queries business APIs to answer requests and hands conversations over to a human operator when they fall outside its scope.

WhatsAppAIAPI integrations