David Hontecillas
Senior Software Engineer at hontecillas.com
Sort, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolDavid Hontecillas is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and APIs, currently contributing at KrakenD and running his own development practice at hontecillas.com. He has deep Go expertise from roles at Teamwork and Verse and has made notable open-source contributions to the Linux Foundation–hosted Lura API gateway, optimizing complex whitelisting logic and adding benchmark-driven improvements. His background spans mobile, game, and server-side engineering—from early work on Android/iOS and game ports to directing technical projects and automation for customizable apps—giving him a rare full-stack-to-infrastructure perspective. Based in Sort, Catalonia, he combines pragmatic performance tuning with solid testing practices and a long-standing habit of shipping reliable, production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Github Skills (11)
golang10
go10
middleware10
api-gateway10
apidoc9
performance-optimization9
api9
testing8
routers7
proxies7
router7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
luraproject/lura
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 10 commits, 23 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `lura` API Gateway project by focusing on the implementation and optimization of the whitelisting functionality. They refactored and optimized the `newWhitelistingFilter` function, which involved reducing its size and improving the efficiency of recursive deletion within the whitelist. The user also added comprehensive benchmark tests to evaluate the performance of the whitelisting filter, particularly with deeper and broader whitelist configurations, which enhanced the overall reliability and performance of the API gateway. Finally, the user improved test cases for a whitelist and provided a more refined version of it.
api-gatewaybackend-serviceskong-pluginultraperformant
dhontecillas/autobakdir
Dec 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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