César Tapia
Backend Developer at Back Market
Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolCésar Tapia is a seasoned backend developer and open source advocate with 11 years of experience building and managing developer tools and infrastructure in Europe. He has led the Conan team at JFrog and contributes actively to the high-profile conan and conan-center-index projects, improving C/C++ package recipes, Bazel toolchains, and CLI functionality. Previously a technical director and project manager for OpenShine, he brings strong Python/Django and full-stack scars from enterprise and government projects across Spain. Currently at Back Market, he combines hands-on automation and build engineering with people leadership, and often bridges documentation, testing and release work — a blend that keeps developer UX and reproducibility front and center.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
IT Informática Gestión, IT Informática Gestión at Colegio Universitario de Segovia (UCM)
Spanish, English
Github Skills (19)
cpp-library10
c-language10
restructuredtext10
package-management10
python10
conan10
testing10
cmake10
recipe10
doc10
bazel10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
documentation10
dependency-analysis9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
conan-io/docs
May 2021 - Feb 2022
conan.io reStructuredText documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:16 reviews, 7 commits, 12 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:César primarily contributed to the documentation of the Conan package manager, focusing on build systems like Bazel and CMake. Their work included adding new documentation for Bazel integration, fixing typos, and updating the documentation for the new cmake layout. The user also updated the getting started tutorial and removed installation methods not yet available in the Conan 2.0 alpha release.
restructuredtextconan-ioconanswigconan-documentation
conan-io/conan
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:46 reviews, 46 commits, 24 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:César implemented and tested a Bazel toolchain for the Conan package manager, including the creation of Jinja2 templates and tests to ensure functionality. They also contributed to the replacement of the old CLI system, modifying the test utilities and adding version checks. Further work involved the implementation and testing of the "conan search" command within the new CLI system, contributing to the improved usability of the tool.
cppcmakepackage-managerlinuxmulti-platform
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