David Licla

I'm a software engineer at Forma and organizer of GDG Ica.

I build products end to end: from idea to production. My main stack is Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, and PostgreSQL.

I enjoy learning about other areas like backend, infrastructure, and design. I'm not trying to master them, but to understand how each piece fits to build a better product ✨.

Projects

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SQM Nutrition

Redesign and rebuild of a multi-language website, faster and with a better user experience.

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Matra - CAT

Website rebuild for Matra CAT, moving from a slow, poor-UX site to a fast Next.js frontend backed by a headless WordPress CMS.

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AI Agents Platform

A platform of specialized AI agents, one per business area, each exposing a simple conversational interface backed by n8n workflows.

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Posts

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Jul 1, 2026 · 1 min

Retries and exponential backoff in BullMQ

How to design scraping jobs that fail gracefully using queues, retries, and exponential backoff in BullMQ.

Jul 1, 2026 · 1 min

Hello world

First test post to validate the velite setup.

Jul 1, 2026 · 1 min

Full-text search in Postgres with tsvector

How to build fast search without reaching for Elasticsearch, using Postgres' native tsvector and GIN indexes.

Achievements

NASA Space Apps Challenge

Participation

2025

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Community

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Outside of code, I'm part of the organizing team for the Google Developer Groups community in Ica, Peru. There I spend time running events, mentoring local developers, and helping build a culture where learning is part of everyday life, not the exception.

GDG Ica

May 2026

Build With AI 2026

May 2026

DevFest 2025

Nov 2025

David

Nov 2025