Cristian Planas
Principal Engineer at Combinaut
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolCristian Planas is a Principal Engineer based in Barcelona with 14 years of experience designing and scaling high-throughput web systems. He was a technical leader at Zendesk for over a decade, driving architecture and performance improvements across the ticketing platform and leading multiple teams responsible for services that process hundreds of thousands of Kafka events per day. Author of "Rails Scales!" and a frequent conference speaker, he is recognized as an expert in performance and scalability with hands-on experience across Ruby on Rails and JVM microservices. He enjoys mentoring engineers and has a track record of turning ambitious product ideas into large-scale user-facing systems, including the Playfulbet social gaming platform that reached millions before acquisition.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Metropolia University of Applied SciencesUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Catalan, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (73)
samesite10
mvc10
ruby10
ruby-client10
html10
rails10
deprecated10
client-library9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
logic8
devise8
apache-kafka8
kafka8
handlebars8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Gawyn/rails-performance-book
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 115 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
Gawyn/love4movies
Dec 2012 - Aug 2019
A social network about movies
Contributions:876 commits, 56 PRs, 89 pushes in 6 years 8 months
social-networkreactmoviesjavascriptnodejs
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