David Cañas
Team Leader at Perspective
Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Cañas is a pragmatic software engineering leader with 10 years of experience driving frontend excellence and team growth across startups and scale-ups from Girona, Spain. He coaches and leads teams in TDD, pair programming and XP practices, combining hands-on implementation with design-system and user-centric UI improvements. His career includes building migration strategies for legacy systems (strangler pattern, event buses), automating design-to-code workflows, and crafting Electron/WebRTC solutions that bridge browser and hardware interactions. As a freelance consultant at Sunweb and staff/frontend roles at neptune.ai and Pitch, he blends technical mentorship with product-focused delivery. David is especially invested in improving frontend testing techniques and making interfaces that meaningfully add value to users, a principle reflected in tooling and process work that often runs behind the scenes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería informática, Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería informática at Universitat de GironaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Spanish, Catalan, English
Github Skills (200)
azure-functions10
browser10
volta10
aws-lambda10
inuitcss10
serverless-framework10
listener10
aws10
react10
tilt10
animation9
javascript9
jsdoc9
lambda9
easing9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
d-asensio/sass-vars-extractor
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
👾 A secure and performant utility to extract sass variables (and use their values from JavaScript).
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
securesasssass-variablescssjavascript
d-asensio/regenerate
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Manage side effects with testability and ergonomics
Contributions:168 commits, 1 PR, 75 pushes in 1 month
testabilityergonomicsside-effects
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