Arnau Sala
Developer at Arnau Sanchez (freelance)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolArnau Sala is a seasoned developer with 17 years of experience building web and application software, specializing in dynamic languages like Python, Ruby, and Lua and a long-standing advocate for free software and GNU/Linux. Based in Barcelona, he has run a freelance practice since 2008 and brings practical research experience from EHAS to commercial web work. Notable open-source contributions include modernizing the popular youtube-upload tool—migrating it to YouTube API v3, adding OAuth2, thumbnails, playlists, tagging and scheduled publishing—demonstrating attention to API integrations and user-facing features. Trained as a Telecommunications Engineer from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, he blends systems thinking with pragmatic backend development, often improving developer ergonomics through better defaults and clearer error messages.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Github Skills (45)
google-api10
python10
apidoc10
indexing10
subprocess10
ruby10
api10
conditional-statements10
activerecord10
hash10
googleapis10
oauth10
ruby-on-rails10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tokland/youtube-upload
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Upload videos to Youtube from the command line
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 commits, 38 PRs, 120 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Arnau primarily worked on refactoring the `youtube-upload` project, shifting its reliance from APIv2 to APIv3, and integrating OAuth2 for authentication. They updated the code to incorporate features like tags, and the ability to set a publish date. Furthermore, the user added a thumbnail and playlist features. They also implemented enhancements like a default chunksize, improved error messages, and the option to specify the default language and audio language.
command-lineyoutube
tokland/libro-tremedal
Sep 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 1 year
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