Freelance projects
Direct, accountable delivery — scope, design, build, and deploy with one point of contact.
About
Engineer by training, product builder by practice
I'm Joe Morel — a Dominican full-stack developer and telematics engineer based in Santiago, Chile. Since 2015 I've built digital products for more than 100 clients across Chile, the Dominican Republic, and the US.
My path started in electronics and telecommunications — C programs, optical transmitters, network equipment — and grew into modern web engineering and the design work that makes products feel right. That range is my advantage: I'm comfortable from the physical layer to the pixel.
Today I work as a freelancer and with remote teams: building products from scratch, joining existing codebases, or leading the design-to-development cycle for startups.
Languages
Spanish (native) · English (B2)Remote teams
Async-friendly collaboration across time zones — PRs, reviews, and clean handoffs.
Products & startups
MVP definition, design systems, and the pragmatism to ship and iterate fast.
Design + engineering
One person across Figma and the codebase — fewer handoffs, faster cycles.
Technical range
From low level to the browser
My engineering base covers C, electronics, and network fundamentals; my day-to-day is TypeScript, React, and cloud infrastructure. I like understanding the whole stack underneath a product.
- C & electronics
- Networks & GPON
- PostgreSQL
- Node.js & APIs
- React · Next.js · Astro
- TypeScript
- Cloud & deploys
- UI/UX & Figma
Years writing software
From C and electronics to modern web apps.
Clients served
Websites, e-commerce, and platforms since 2015.
Fiber network planned
FTTH design and field experience.
Markets
Chile, Dominican Republic, and the US.
Experience
Where I've worked
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Engineering & Development Lead
2025 — 2026Telexa Group
Led the engineering and development area: web platforms, digital product structuring, and technical validation for telecom and IPTV projects.
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Full-Stack Developer · UX/UI Designer
2024 — 2025Metriqz
Designed and built business and financial platforms — including RiesgoPro — from Figma to production with Next.js and TypeScript.
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Project Manager & Frontend Developer
2023 — PresentTuSubastaRD
Own product and frontend for a live vehicle auction platform: 1,000+ vehicles auctioned, 200+ registered users.
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Support & QA Engineer
2023 — 2024Fyco Telecomunicaciones
Quality control and interoperability testing for FTTH/IPTV equipment across Huawei, Nokia, and FiberHome.
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Full-Stack Developer & UI/UX Designer
2015 — PresentFreelance
Websites, e-commerce, and web apps for 100+ clients in Chile, the Dominican Republic, and the US.
2015 — 2022
Education
Telematics Engineer
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM)
Santiago, Dominican Republic
Final degree project · 2021 — 2022
Fiber Optic Fault Monitor (FOFM)
A device that detects fiber breaks over long distances and reports them through a web platform. Raspberry Pi and optical transmitters at the hardware level, C and I2C underneath, Vue and the Telegram API at the surface — developed with collaborators from the University System of Maryland and Optical Zonu Corp.
- C
- I2C
- Raspberry Pi
- Vue
- Telegram API
- Google Maps API
The bridge
Where software meets infrastructure.
I bridge product design, frontend systems, and real-world fiber infrastructure. The same person who designs the interface understands the network behind it — from Figma components to GPON splitters.
- Systems thinking across product and infrastructure
- From Figma to fiber: design, code, and deployment
- Data-informed decisions that drive better outcomes
Let's work together
Have a product to build — or a team that needs a hand?
I'm open to freelance projects, remote roles, and collaborations with product teams and startups.