Constanza Abarca
Data Migrations Specialists Team Manager
Aragua State, Venezuela
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Top SchoolConstanza Abarca is a Data Migrations Specialist Team Manager with nine years of experience leading migration projects and building reliable import tooling for community platforms. At Discourse she progressed from specialist to team manager, architecting and improving import scripts that handle complex data and media transfers from systems like Zendesk and phpBB into the widely used open-source Discourse forum. Her background in Linux systems administration and technical support gives her a strong operational perspective on data integrity, parsing edge cases, and scalable back-end processes. She has shipped practical enhancements such as updated phpBB import support and a CSV importer, reducing manual migration effort for large communities. Based in Aragua State, Venezuela, she blends hands-on engineering with people leadership, mentoring engineers through technically challenging, cross-platform migrations. An appetite for problem-solving shows in early work on geospatial metadata and in tutoring programming—skills that make her particularly effective at turning messy source data into clean, production-ready communities.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Universidad Simón BolívarIES El Carrascal, Arganda del Rey, Madrid
English, Japanese, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
rails10
postgresql10
ruby10
phpbb9
csv8
edx6
javascript4
ember3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 14 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Constanza primarily contributed to the back-end of the Discourse platform by working on import scripts for various forum platforms. Their work involved processing data, including image uploads, from external sources (like Zendesk and phpBB) and integrating it into Discourse. They also improved the phpBB import script by adding support for newer versions and fixing issues related to parsing BBCode. Furthermore, the user added a CSV importer script, enhancing the platform's data import capabilities.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
cocococosti/discourse
Jul 2021 - Aug 2023
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Contributions:34 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
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