Bernat Duran
Lead Engineer at Optimal
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBernat Duran is a seasoned engineering leader based in Wellington with two decades of experience building and scaling SaaS platforms and cloud-native services. He has progressed from hands-on backend and mobile development to senior leadership roles, most recently as Lead Engineer after serving as Head of Engineering and Head of Platform at Optimal/Optimal Workshop. Bernat combines deep technical chops in AWS, Ruby on Rails, Node.js and distributed systems with product-minded engineering—he founded a music-events app and introduced DevOps and scalable architectures at previous companies. Known for steering platform reliability and release velocity, he thrives at the intersection of delivery, team coaching and operational excellence. Collected European and antipodean work experience gives him a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to shipping customer-focused software.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, Science, High School Degree, Science at Escola PIA de Diputació (Barcelona)Erasmus exchange, Computer Science, Erasmus exchange, Computer Science at École Polytech de Montpellier (France)UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German
Github Skills (22)
agm9
google-maps8
tagging8
angular-library7
deadlock7
angular6
ruby-on-rails6
rails6
ruby6
transaction5
sql3
activerecord3
database3
transactional3
mysql3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
optimalworkshop/soft_delete
Feb 2018 - May 2020
acts_as_soft_deletable for Rails 3 & 4
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
ruby-on-railsacts-asrailsrubystimulusjs
optimalworkshop/transaction_retry
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year
mysqldeadlockretriessqlserialization
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