Diego Val is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building performant, secure web and mobile experiences and currently co-founding Trebellar in San Francisco. He led UI strategy and cross-cloud infrastructure as Principal Architect at Salesforce, shaping the Lightning Platform while driving developer-facing services and standards. A hands-on engineer with roots in front-end and back-end work, Diego has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like LWC and Aura, optimizing performance and strengthening test and compiler behavior. His background spans security, web performance, and NodeJS tooling from roles at Yahoo! and academia, and he’s an advocate for open source and open standards. An unexpected note: alongside his engineering career he trained as a professional trumpeter, reflecting a long-standing discipline for practice and craft.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Courses on Networking and Security (Erasmus), Master Courses on Networking and Security (Erasmus) at Université catholique de Louvain
Ingeniería Informática, Ingeniería Informática at Universidade da Coruña
Titulado Profesional Música Trompeta, Titulado Profesional Música Trompeta at Conservatorio Profesional de Música de A Coruña
⚡️ LWC - A Blazing Fast, Enterprise-Grade Web Components Foundation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:3 releases, 7 reviews, 128 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the LWC (Lightning Web Components) framework, as indicated by the commits related to the `lwc` repository. They focused on cleaning up and adding tests for LWC templates, specifically addressing issues with data binding and directives like `forEach`. The commits show modifications to the LWC compiler and core components, indicating a focus on refining the framework's functionality and ensuring its stability through comprehensive testing.
This project is archived, please see the readme for additional resources.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:134 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Diego contributed to fixing issues related to the 'fastClickc' component, specifically addressing cleanup issues with 'ghostBuster' within the 'aura-components' directory. Additionally, the user implemented performance improvements in a 'dummyPerf' component, as well as refactoring of the application and the bootstrap. The user also made several changes to the test framework and tests.
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