Abel Romero
Senior Software Engineer at Broadcom Software
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAbel Romero is a senior software engineer based in Barcelona with 12 years of experience building cloud-native Java platforms and integrations, currently working on the Spring Cloud commercial offering for Tanzu at Broadcom. Deeply pragmatic and curious, he specializes in Java ecosystems (Spring Boot, Maven/Gradle, Vert.x) while also contributing in Groovy, Kotlin, Micronaut, Quarkus and occasionally Go and Rust. A long-time open-source contributor and maintainer—most notably to the popular Asciidoctor Maven plugin and AsciidoctorJ—he brings practical expertise in testing, build automation and platform-specific problem solving. He has led teams and projects across SaaS, content management and enterprise ECM, emphasizing TDD, clean code and reliable third-party integrations. Equally at home improving developer experience and fixing subtle platform bugs, he runs Manjaro Linux at work and home and is active in the Barcelona Java community and JBCNConf.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Catalan
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
asciidoctor10
scripting10
groovy10
testing10
java10
javas10
junit10
api-gateway10
spring-boot10
maven10
spring-cloud10
reactor10
circuit-breaker9
cicd9
pdf-generation9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
asciidoctor/asciidoctor-maven-examples
Dec 2014 - Sep 2022
A collection of example projects that demonstrates how to use the Asciidoctor Maven plugin.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 94 commits, 349 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Abel contributed to multiple aspects of the repository, including script creation, code refactoring, and build process improvements. They implemented a Groovy script to update properties in example projects and another script to check and replace tabs with whitespaces. The user also made changes to Java code, specifically an extension that included modifications to the Twitter macro. Additionally, they upgraded dependencies, updated examples, and automated the validation of examples, indicating a full-stack approach.
maven-pluginmavenasciidoctorexample-projectsjava
asciidoctor/asciidoctorj
Aug 2014 - Oct 2022
:coffee: Java bindings for Asciidoctor. Asciidoctor on the JVM!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 57 commits, 84 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Abel contributed to test suite enhancements, incorporating classpath-relative files and JUnit rules to improve test organization. They added examples of 'rouge' code highlighting for different languages (CoffeeScript and Groovy) in PDF generation. Additionally, the user integrated PDBBox for validating PDF generation within the project. They also worked on fixing platform-specific issues related to the Ditaa diagram and line break assertions in the codebase.
coffeeasciidoctorjvmjava-bindingsjava
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