Faustino Aguilar
Panama
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Top SchoolFaustino Aguilar is a pragmatic back-end engineer from Panama with 12 years of hands-on experience building and hardening web frameworks and services. He contributes to core Crystal ecosystem projects—including the Crystal language, the Amber web framework, and TechEmpower benchmarks—focusing on bug fixes, stability, security headers, and performance-oriented refinements. Comfortable across Microsoft stacks and modern web tech, he has applied his skills in enterprise settings such as the Panama Canal Authority and through international programs with Huawei and Beijing Language and Culture University. Known for liking to “hack” things, he brings a detail-oriented mindset to testing, error handling, and dependency/GC tuning that improves reliability in production-grade toolchains.
12 years of coding experience
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universidad de Panamá
English, Spanish
Github Skills (27)
application-framework10
benchmark10
frameworkbenchmarks10
crystal-lang10
back-end-development10
app-framework10
benchmarking10
compiler-compiler10
microbenchmark10
compiler10
web-framework10
backend10
benchmarkjs10
cli10
postgresql9
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
amberframework/amber
Jul 2017 - Apr 2020
A Crystal web framework that makes building applications fast, simple, and enjoyable. Get started with quick prototyping, less bugs, and blazing fast performance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 197 commits, 153 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Faustino primarily contributed to bug fixes and version updates within the Amber framework. These changes included fixing typos, updating version numbers, and refactoring colorized output for the command-line interface. Additionally, the user worked on adding and modifying security headers and features related to video playback, demonstrating a focus on improving the framework's core functionality. The user also addressed issues within the testing and error handling mechanisms of the project.
blazingget-startedcrystalscaffoldingamber
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
May 2017 - Feb 2018
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 60 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Faustino primarily contributed to the Crystal framework benchmarks, adding and modifying code for various framework setups, specifically for the Amber framework. They implemented features related to database interactions, routing, and controllers. The user refactored existing Crystal setups, and focused on setting up GC threads and dependency management for various Crystal-based projects.
techempowerframeworkbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
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