Don Tran
Founder & CEO
Founder and CEO with 9 years in software engineering, focused on backend systems, SaaS products, and AI solutions.
- Backend systems
- SaaS products
- AI solutions
- Technical strategy
- Software architecture
Our team
The People and Disciplines Behind Vortex Digital.
Leadership, software engineering, design, delivery, and quality assurance work as one team. A startup gets a direction for the product, people who can build it, and a way to tell whether the release is ready.
Team roster
Nine named profiles, in role order. Portraits were assigned by the agency owner. Collaboration scenes further down are illustrations, not photographs of these people at work, and no profile is tied to a client case study.
Joshua Mendoza
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-founder and CTO with 10 years in software engineering, across full-stack development, cloud architecture, backend systems, and DevOps.
- Full-stack development
- Cloud architecture
- Backend systems
- DevOps
- Engineering leadership
Lin Jiayi
CFO
CFO with 8 years in corporate finance, covering financial planning, budgeting, and business operations.
- Corporate finance
- Financial planning
- Budgeting
- Cash flow management
- Project profitability
Pongsak Rattanakul
Project Manager
Project manager with 8+ years leading cross-functional software and product teams through Agile delivery.
- Project management
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Sprint planning
- Stakeholder coordination
- Risk mitigation
Dmytro Melnyk
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Senior full-stack developer with 15+ years building web applications, internet services, and e-commerce platforms.
- Magento 2
- Adobe Commerce
- Headless commerce
- PHP
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- BFF
- MySQL
- API integrations
Carlo Garcia
AI Engineer
AI engineer with 9 years in software engineering, including 4 years in AI and machine learning.
- Python
- PyTorch
- LangChain
- LLMs
- RAG
- Vector databases
- AI agents
Matheus Pereira
Mobile App Developer
Mobile app developer with 8 years in iOS and Android, including Flutter, native platforms, and API integration.
- Flutter
- Dart
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Firebase
- REST APIs
- Mobile performance
Adrian Cruz
UI/UX & Product Designer
UX research and human factors for Vortex Digital, including usability studies and interface evaluation. A year count was not supplied.
- UX research
- Usability studies
- Human factors
- Human-centered product design
- Interface evaluation
Sofia Vasylivna Melnyk
QA & DevOps Engineer
QA and DevOps engineer with 7 years across manual testing, automation, CI/CD, and deployment monitoring.
- Manual QA
- Test automation
- Playwright
- Selenium
- Docker
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- AWS
- Deployment monitoring
Collaboration
How We Work Together
Leadership, engineering, design, delivery, and quality meet on the same product. The scenes below are conceptual illustrations of that work. They are not photographs of Vortex Digital employees or real meetings.
A product conversation before the build
Direction, scope, and the first release get settled where leadership and delivery can hear the same explanation. The illustration stands in for that kind of discussion.
Testing and delivery
Release readiness collaboration. Illustrative scene, not a photograph of a named employee or a documented company event. Quality and release sit in the same plan as the feature work, so a launch is a step the team can repeat.
Need This Mix of Disciplines on a Product?
Tell us what you are building. We can talk through which of these roles the work actually needs.