Emilio Blanco
Owner at Dotech Software
Paraguay
Summary
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SeniorEmilio Blanco is a seasoned full-stack engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years building web applications and running his own software firm from Paraguay. He has deep hands-on experience in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/React, Delphi, and Linux tooling, and has shipped features across backend APIs and rich admin UIs. His work includes contributions to the popular ActiveAdmin ecosystem, adding UX-focused addons like searchable selects, tags, and improved attachment handling. Emilio has moved between startups and product teams—shipping Solidus ecommerce work, Phoenix/Elixir components, and Next.js frontends—demonstrating versatility across stacks. He blends startup pragmatism with long-term maintainability, often improving build processes and refactoring systems rather than just patching bugs. Fluent in both legacy and modern web stacks, he brings entrepreneurial ownership to product-centric engineering.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
rails10
activeadmin10
select210
ruby9
formtastic9
forms6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
platanus/activeadmin_addons
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
Extends ActiveAdmin to enable a set of great optional UX improving add-ons
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 38 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Emilio primarily focused on extending the ActiveAdmin interface with new features and improvements. Their work included adding input types like tags and search selects, integrating datepickers, and supporting enumerize attributes for selects and filters. They also implemented enhancements to attachment columns and rows, and improved the handling of boolean values. Furthermore, the user made code adjustments to the project's build process and refactored the system's components.
add-onsrailsrubygreatimproving
rhinobird/rhinobird-android
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 8 months
javaandroid
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