Alberto Almagro
Co-Founder at Kobete Technologies SL
A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlberto Almagro is a Co-Founder and seasoned Ruby on Rails engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading backend teams for startups and scaleups while working remotely from A Coruña. He has held senior and lead roles at Spin and Koinly and now runs Kobete Technologies, offering Rails consultancy, interview coaching, and technical due diligences for VC investments. An active contributor to the flagship rails/rails repository, he focuses on improving framework documentation and code clarity—an often overlooked but high-impact area for developer experience. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding and strategic evaluation, he blends entrepreneurial pragmatism with deep Rails expertise and a knack for spotting technical risk in cross-border startups.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Informático (10 Semester) MSc, Computer Science, Ingeniero Informático (10 Semester) MSc, Computer Science at Universidad de A Coruna
Spanish, German, English, galizisch, Portuguese, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
documentation10
ruby10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
activerecord8
actionpack8
slick6
scala6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 51 commits, 56 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily contributed to the Ruby on Rails framework by addressing documentation issues, fixing typos, and improving the clarity of the code examples. Their work involved modifying various files related to documentation, including those within the `railties` and `actionpack` directories. Additionally, they made changes to improve the documentation of the `rails` command and the migration process. They also refactored the code to use the correct code syntax and removed the thirdparty FIXME.
ruby-on-railsrailsmvcactiverecordactivejob
albertoalmagro/spree_it_is_a_present
Apr 2021 - Jul 2023
Add a recipient name and a dedication to Spree orders
Contributions:1 review, 11 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 3 months
dedicationspree
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