David Risco
Lead Backend Engineer at Worldreader
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolDavid Risco is a Lead Backend Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and APIs, currently leading backend at Worldreader from Madrid. He excels in Node.js (Fastify/Hapi/Express), serverless Lambdas, real-time systems (Socket.io, SQS, pub/sub) and data stores spanning MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis and Oracle. As a two-time MongoDB certified developer/DBA and AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect (Associate), he blends architecture patterns (microservices, hexagonal, clean code) with strong testing and DevOps practices. He has co-founded and CTO’d startups, shipping complex mobile and video/chat platforms with integrations like Twilio and Stripe, and scaled services serving hundreds of thousands of monthly requests with high availability. An Arctic Code Vault GitHub contributor and past Google Campus hack winner, he pairs entrepreneurial instinct with pragmatic engineering—often driving performance and resilience improvements that aren’t obvious from job titles alone.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Technological High School Degree, Technological High School Degree at IES Azarquiel
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (18)
cms10
javascript10
web-application10
audio-files10
ghost10
nodejs10
cli10
audience9
ember9
jamstack9
journalism9
headless-cms8
geoip-api7
google-maps6
leaflet6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dburgos/indie-maker-the-game
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:30 commits, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 20 days
growblog/ghost-purge-images
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
CLI tool to display & purge the uploaded images, video and audio files that currently are not used in any post, page or meta data
Contributions:1 review, 88 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 5 months
audio-filesclighostmaintenance
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