Arturo Herrero
Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolArturo Herrero is a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab with 15 years of experience building and leading backend teams across startups and scale-ups from Madrid. He blends deep hands-on craftsmanship in backend systems with people leadership, having progressed from senior engineer roles to Engineering Manager and now staff-level individual contributor. Arturo contributes to open-source Ruby tooling—improving swagger/OAPI generation for Grape APIs—demonstrating attention to API ergonomics and test quality. Comfortable in fast-moving product environments, he has led backend work at fintech and media companies and routinely turns ambiguous requirements into reliable, well-documented services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs idiomatic code with an engineer-first approach to developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Degree, Software Engineering, Degree, Software Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (23)
postgresql10
grapesjs10
groovy10
swagger10
ruby10
constraint10
api10
gr10
documentation10
testing9
git-diff9
git9
grails9
rspec9
ruby-on-rails9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ruby-grape/grape-swagger
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Add OAPI/swagger v2.0 compliant documentation to your grape API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Arturo contributed to the `grape-swagger` project by enhancing the documentation generation capabilities for Grape API. Their work focused on improving how hidden endpoints are handled in the Swagger documentation, specifically addressing scenarios with hidden endpoints and namespaces. The commits also included idiomatic Ruby code improvements and enhanced test descriptions to reflect the changes. Overall, the contributions aimed at refining the Swagger documentation process and usability within the Grape framework.
apicompliantrubyoapigrape-api
arturoherrero/dotfiles
Jul 2011 - Sep 2022
A man's home is his castle. Never leave your dotfiles behind.
Contributions:405 commits, 4 PRs, 296 pushes in 11 years 3 months
bash-configurationcastlenevervim-configurationdotfiles
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