Álvaro Msc
Web Backend Software Engineer at Qonto
Oregon, Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolÁlvaro Msc is a seasoned Web Backend Software Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails and a strong background in application security. Currently building billing and subscription APIs for Qonto’s Core Banking Pricing team, he blends pragmatic backend development with hands-on security expertise gained at NCC Group and payment providers. He has a track record delivering payment, e‑commerce and media platforms, and is comfortable navigating high‑stakes domains like PSP integrations and core banking. Beyond coding, he has performed web pentests, threat modeling and Rails code reviews, which informs his bias toward secure-by-design implementations. Based in Oregon with roots in Spain, he pairs telecoms engineering training with real-world product delivery across startups and enterprise teams. An uncommon strength is his ability to switch hats between feature delivery and deep security assessment, reducing risk without slowing cadence.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Security Consultant Training Program, IT Security, Graduate Security Consultant Training Program, IT Security at NCC GroupTelecommunication engineer, Telematics - Software Engineering and Networking, Telecommunication engineer, Telematics - Software Engineering and Networking at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (9)
html10
activerecord10
mvc10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
ruby-wrapper9
bigbluebutton9
api6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ringio/ringio-plugin-highrise
Nov 2010 - Mar 2011
Contributions:97 commits in 4 months
eperales/phraseapp-test
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 1 day
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