Aral Gomez
Senior Software Engineering at Capitole
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolAral Gomez is a senior software engineer based in Barcelona with 10 years of experience building full-stack web applications and developer tools. He combines practical product work—shipping Next.js/Preact front-ends, cloud deployments on Google Cloud, and ML-powered prototypes—with deep open-source craftsmanship as the creator of the lightweight Brisa framework and the widely used next-translate i18n plugin. His background spans founding a niche social network, architecting e-commerce and warehouse apps, and integrating computer-vision and FastText models in the browser via WebAssembly and TensorFlow.js. Known for turning complex problems into small, reusable solutions, he favors pragmatic, performance-conscious implementations that help other developers move faster.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Higher Education Systems Manager, Certificate of Higher Education Systems Manager at Centre d'Estudis PolitècnicsUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, Catalan, English
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Github Skills (13)
typescript10
internationalization10
javascript10
i18next10
nextjs10
localization10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
globalization9
nodejs6
curl6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
aralroca/next-translate
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:224 releases, 148 reviews, 445 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Aral contributed to the development of a Next.js plugin for internationalization, focusing on the creation of a component that translates text strings. They implemented features such as interpolation of variables within translated strings, support for pluralization based on count values, and the creation of a dynamic namespaces feature for loading translations. The contributions primarily revolved around building reusable components and improving the flexibility of the translation process within the Next.js framework.
next-jsstatic-sitetranslationpluralsinternationalization
brisa-build/brisa
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
The Web Platform Framework.
Contributions:91 releases, 80 reviews, 325 PRs in 5 months
javascriptjsxserver-componentsserver-renderingsignals
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