Alex Jiménez
Senior Software Engineer at Ironhack
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolAlex Jiménez is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building robust backend systems and a proven track record across startups, education, and fintech. Comfortable in Ruby, Java, and PHP, he prefers Ruby and has contributed notable backend work to CartoDB, a recognized location intelligence and data-visualization platform. He has held engineering and CTO roles, led payments and scalable API projects, and recently advanced platform reliability and design at Affirm before joining GoodNotes. Alex blends strong software-design instincts—TDD, design patterns, CI/CD and infrastructure testing—with hands-on delivery, and he also mentors developers as an instructor at Ironhack. Entrepreneurial by nature, he runs a CrossFit studio, reflecting a disciplined, people-focused leadership style that informs how he builds teams and processes. Curious about functional languages like Scala and Clojure, he continues to expand his toolkit while favoring pragmatic, maintainable backend design.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería Informática (Computing Engineering Grad) Computer Science, Ingeniería Informática (Computing Engineering Grad) Computer Science at Universidad Politécnica de MadridElementary Secondary and Pre-College Pysics and Maths, Elementary Secondary and Pre-College Pysics and Maths at MirabalIngeniería Informática (Master's Degree) Computer Science, Ingeniería Informática (Master's Degree) Computer Science at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
geolocation10
postgresql10
geospatial10
back-end-development10
cartodb9
x-frame-options6
paypal6
reflection6
php6
fingerprint6
amazon-ec26
rsa6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/cartodb
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Location Intelligence & Data Visualization tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 127 PRs, 477 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on the back-end aspects of the `cartodb/cartodb` repository. They made changes to Ruby files, specifically concerning named map templates, state management, and view generation. The user also made updates to controllers related to user migration imports and organization metadata export services. These contributions indicate a focus on data visualization, location intelligence features, and user management within the CartoDB platform.
visualizationgeospatialgeofencinggeographyh3
amartinj/vamcrossfit
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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