Andrés De Lucena
Lead Software Developer at Decidim
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrés De Lucena is a Lead Software Developer based in Barcelona with 15 years of experience building and securing production-grade web platforms, specialising in Free/Libre Open Source Software and civic tech. He leads full-stack development and cross-functional teams for Decidim, the widely used participatory democracy framework, contributing feature work, translations, UI fixes and test improvements. His background spans hands-on infrastructure and systems administration (Apache/nginx, Varnish, Zabbix, virtualization) through roles as CTO and sysadmin, giving him rare full-stack-to-infra fluency. He combines product-minded technical design—translating policy and legal constraints into robust architecture—with disciplined code review and security stewardship. Andrés is motivated by open government and citizen participation, and his career shows a pattern of enabling community-driven projects via practical, reusable OSS solutions.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Instituto Virginio F. Grego
Spanish, Catalan, English
Github Skills (9)
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
front-end-development9
internationalization9
localization9
rspec8
par7
cooperation7
ruby6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
decidim/decidim
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 3490 reviews, 557 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrés contributed to the Decidim participatory democracy framework by implementing and modifying features across multiple areas of the application. Their work involved removing and integrating gems in the Ruby on Rails environment, adding and translating locale files, fixing UI links and correcting tests. Furthermore, the user addressed feature enhancements and resolved issues related to proposal lengths and the front-end design of the application.
participatory-democracycivic-techgovernmentdemocracyparticipation
nolotiro/nolotiro.org
Nov 2013 - Jul 2019
Sitio para regalar cosas que no usas
Contributions:834 commits, 48 PRs, 311 pushes in 5 years 9 months
reactsitiorailsshareconomycss
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