Alvaro Chalar
Software Engineer at DVELP - Part of Sabio Group
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvaro Chalar is a software engineer based in Barcelona with 10 years of experience building backend and media-delivery systems, currently developing real-time communications for regulated industries at DVELP. His background spans systems and network administration to playback engineering, giving him deep operational expertise in Linux/Unix, cloud storage, multi-CDN video workflows, and automation with Ruby and Python. He combines an academic foundation in high-performance computing and teaching experience with hands-on work on encoding/packaging pipelines and tooling for quality control. Curious about creative coding and data visualization, he also explores Processing, OpenFrameworks and p5.js, bringing a design-aware perspective to engineering problems. Notably, his career progression—from UNIX backup specialist to PhD candidate and media playback engineer—reflects a rare blend of low-level systems know-how and product-focused software development.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc., High Performance Computing (HPC), M. Sc., High Performance Computing (HPC) at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaUniversidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo"Certificate in Network Engineering, Networking, A, Certificate in Network Engineering, Networking, A at Okinawa International Center (JICA)
English, Portuguese, Catalan, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic
Github Skills (12)
cookbook9
rails8
ruby8
pixel8
webvtt8
vtt7
open-source6
parser6
pixel-art5
python4
ruby-on-rails2
arabic1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alvaro-chalar/openfoodnetwork
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
distributorssupplierstradeconsumers
alvaro-chalar/kitt
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Car CRUD API
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
apicrud-apiexpressjsexpresscrud
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