Rafa De La Torre
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRafa De La Torre is a software engineer and platform architect based in Madrid, currently a Sr. Staff Engineer at Netskope with 11 years of experience. He specializes in GIS, backend systems and developer/QA tooling, combining a strong focus on software quality with platform-level thinking. At CARTO he led efforts to simplify and harden core technologies (PostGIS, Mapnik, GDAL) and to create productive local and staging environments for engineers and QA. As an open-source contributor he strengthened testing and CI for Mapnik's Mapbox Vector Tile implementation and improved data import, storage and DB constraints in CartoDB, demonstrating deep Postgres/PostGIS and test-automation expertise. Unusually, his background spans both telecom/IMS systems and modern cloud-native platform work, giving him a knack for pragmatic, reliable solutions across low-level geospatial tooling and large-scale services.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Universidad de Granada
Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
c-language10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
redis10
testing10
vector-tiles10
bash10
mapnik10
postgis10
sql10
ci-cd10
c-programming-language10
javascript9
node-js9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/cartodb
Sep 2014 - Jun 2021
Location Intelligence & Data Visualization tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:130 reviews, 1937 commits, 576 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rafa primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the project, specifically addressing issues related to data import and storage. They made changes to user authentication and data management logic within the application models, as well as modifying data retrieval routines. Additionally, the user was involved in database-related tasks, including adding database constraints, optimizing the use of Redis, and managing migrations and the cartodb-postgresql extension to enable better usage and performance.
visualizationgeospatialgeofencinggeographyh3
mapnik/node-mapnik
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Bindings to mapnik for node.js
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rafa contributed to the project by implementing features related to passing variables in the MVT processor and adding tests for token replacement in PostGIS queries. They also set up and configured the PostGIS environment for CI tests using Mason, involving the creation of setup, initialization, and run scripts. Additionally, the user addressed a typo in a test file and merged master into a branch related to variable passing.
node-jsnodejsmapnik
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