Ricard Clau
Owner at Rigor Guild
Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRicard Clau is a Barcelona-based DevOps engineer with 14 years of experience building automated, testable deployment and infrastructure workflows. Creator of ansistrano and an organizer of php.barcelona and devops.barcelona, he combines hands-on engineering with active community leadership and is available as a contractor. His open-source contributions focus on QA and reliability—adding functional Ansible provisioner tests to HashiCorp Packer and unit tests for Swiftmailer in the Silex framework—demonstrating a knack for hardening deployment pipelines. He also enhanced DynamoDBtoCSV to handle complex data types, showing attention to tricky data edge cases. Pragmatic and automation-obsessed, Ricard turns fragile manual processes into repeatable, test-covered systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, French, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
javascript10
data-conversion10
testing10
amazon-dynamodb10
php10
packer10
go10
javascripts10
dynamodb10
silex10
csv10
swiftmailer10
test-automation10
json9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Mar 2016 - Jan 2020
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ricard focused on improving the testing infrastructure within the Packer project. They added functional tests for Ansible provisioners, ensuring proper error handling. Further, they extended testing coverage by adding tests that validate the functionality of floppies in various builders (Virtualbox, Parallels, QEMU). Finally, the user corrected a typo in the help text for a specific command within the Ansible integration.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
edasque/DynamoDBtoCSV
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Dump DynamoDB data into a CSV file
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ricard primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the DynamoDB to CSV export tool. They implemented features to handle various data types within DynamoDB, including string escaping, nested map structures, Java Lists, boolean fields, and numeric sets. Their contributions expanded the tool's ability to accurately represent and convert DynamoDB data into CSV format, improving its usability and supporting a wider range of DynamoDB data structures.
csvamazon-dynamodbdynamodbawsdump
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