Alex Pallares
Senior Backend Developer & Dev Team Lead at Telefónica Innovación Digital
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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RockstarAlex Pallares is a Senior Backend Developer and Dev Team Lead based in Barcelona with 11 years of hands-on experience in the Node.js and TypeScript ecosystem. He blends deep backend development expertise with practical DevOps experience, having led teams at Telefónica Innovación Digital and delivered services across consultancy and product companies. Comfortable from design through operations, he focuses on shipping robust, maintainable systems and mentoring engineers to do the same. An active open-source contributor, Alex has improved TypeScript definitions for widely used logging libraries in the high-profile DefinitelyTyped repo, showing attention to API ergonomics and cross-package compatibility. Not actively looking for offers, he treats new challenges as learning opportunities and brings a pragmatic, improvement-oriented mindset to complex backend problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, Catalan, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to type definition improvements and additions for the `pino` and `sonic-boom` logging libraries within the DefinitelyTyped repository. Their work involved updating existing type definitions to align with library updates, addressing import/require inconsistencies, and adding new features such as the `final` and `redact` options for pino. Furthermore, the user refactored code to improve the overall style.
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alferpal/awesome-copycats
Sep 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:10 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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