David Merino
Co-Founder at Penpot
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolDavid Merino is a veteran software engineer and co-founder with 14+ years building web-first, open source products and developer tooling from Madrid. He blends full-stack craftsmanship with infrastructure and DevOps expertise—contributing to Taiga's frontend, backend and docs build processes and now shaping infrastructure at Penpot. Passionate about usability, accessibility and elegant architecture, he focuses on making engineering feel like art while promoting good practices across teams. His work spans Django/AngularJS stacks, build automation, CI/CD and MongoDB training, reflecting both hands-on coding and operational ownership. A serial open-source contributor and entrepreneur, he co-founded Taiga and Kaleidos, helping bring free software to production for global projects. Off the clock he’s known for quirky creative interests—colorful apples and flying cows—that hint at a playful approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)MongoDB for Developers (M101), MongoDB, MongoDB for Developers (M101), MongoDB at 10gen.com
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (20)
git10
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coffeescript10
python10
scripting10
django10
cicd10
script10
sh10
shell10
postgresql9
apidoc9
angularjs9
github-pages9
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
taigaio/taiga-doc
Oct 2014 - Apr 2021
Taiga documentation source.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:177 commits, 93 PRs, 181 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving and maintaining the build process for the Taiga documentation. Their contributions include modifying the `build-docs.sh` script to generate and deploy PDF versions of the documentation, along with integrating the deployment to the gh-pages branch. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the build script with git commands to pull, reset, and push the documentation. They also temporarily disabled PDF generation and made the changes to disable and then re-enable it.
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taigaio/taiga-scripts
Oct 2014 - Jan 2018
Taiga deploy scripts
Contributions:17 commits, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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