Belén Albeza
Senior Developer (Penpot) at Kaleidos
Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolBelén Albeza is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience across games, web and mobile development, currently leading front-end work on the open-source design tool Penpot. She combines deep front-end expertise (ClojureScript + React) with systems-level performance work, having implemented a WebAssembly render engine in Rust + Skia to accelerate complex UI rendering. Her background spans browser internals and developer tools at Mozilla, fintech backend and frontend work in Go and TypeScript, and early-career game and iPhone development, giving her a rare full-stack-to-native breadth. An active open-source contributor, she added UX improvements and Storybook support to Penpot, demonstrating a focus on developer experience as well as end-user polish. Based in Alicante, Spain, she pairs product-facing collaboration skills with technical leadership in testing, design systems and project scoping. Colleagues rely on her pragmatic engineering sense and her habit of turning performance bottlenecks into user-visible improvements.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Informatique et Réseaux Computer Engineering, Informatique et Réseaux Computer Engineering at École Superiéure d' Ingénieurs ESAIP d' AngersComputer Engineering Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at Universitat d'AlacantMaster in Game Development Computer Games and Programming Skills, Master in Game Development Computer Games and Programming Skills at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
English, Spanish, Catalan, French, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
front-end-development10
ui-design10
storybook10
clojurescript10
css9
prototyping8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
penpot/penpot
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:141 reviews, 220 PRs, 355 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Belén implemented a new feature to send comments using Ctrl+Enter/Cmd+Enter, enhancing the user experience of the commenting system. Their contribution involved modifying the frontend code, specifically the comments.cljs file, to add this functionality. Additionally, they made changes to the CSS, and performed various bug fixes. This user also added the Storybook to the project, allowing other developers to document components and enhance the system.
penpotprototypingux-experienceopen-source-designclojurescript
belen-albeza/generator-gamejam
Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 24 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 7 months
jamyeomangame-jamyeoman-generatorhtml5
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