Worked on integrations and metrics ingestion, building internal tooling to manage them and AI workflows that automated part of my job — which led to building Planck, a workflow-based coding harness.
Sona Technologies Ltd · Senior Software Developer · September 2024 – Present · Remote
Co-founded a project tackling Barcelona's plastic pollution by partnering with local businesses to offer filtered water, building the webpage, blog, backend, and mobile app as the sole programmer.
Refill Aqua · Co-founder & CTO · August 2019 – January 2022 · On-site
Maintained and automated deployments for several systems on-site, after years of remote work.
Derivco Barcelona · Senior Software Developer · January 2019 – July 2019 · On Site
#elixir#ansible#postgresql#ruby#ci/cd
2017
JOBNovember 2017 – November 2018 · Remote
Senior Software Developer
1BitCloud
Built an IoT device that configured cryptocurrency mining datacenters in minutes, plus a dashboard for miner and revenue monitoring, during the 2017 mining boom.
1BitCloud · Senior Software Developer · November 2017 – November 2018 · Remote
Senior Elixir Engineer. Senior Software Engineer. Erlang Developer. Functional Programming Expert. Distributed Systems Architect. Backend Engineer. API Design. Microservices. Real-time Systems. Event-driven Architecture. OTP. BEAM. Phoenix Framework. LiveView. PostgreSQL. GraphQL. RabbitMQ. Redis. Cloud Infrastructure. AWS. GCP. CI/CD. Docker. Kubernetes. Terraform. Ansible. Remote Work. Open Source. Technical Lead. 10+ years professional experience. Elixir since 2015. Erlang since 2012. Computer Science degree. Master's degree.
Core competencies: fault-tolerant systems, concurrent programming, distributed consensus, database design, system architecture, pub/sub messaging, WebSocket, REST API, code review, technical mentorship, agile, scrum, cross-functional collaboration.
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