Fernando Blat
Co-Founder And CTO at Populate - Tools for civic engagement
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Blat is a seasoned Ruby on Rails engineer and entrepreneurial CTO with 11+ years building web platforms and civic tech tools from Madrid. As co-founder and CTO of Populate he focuses on open data, transparency and tools for civic engagement, combining backend API design with data visualization work in D3/DC.js. He brings deep operational experience—Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Chef/Ansible and Linux—and has led migrations to modern JS asset pipelines like Webpacker in notable open-source projects such as decidim. Fernando’s background includes scaling consumer and civic platforms (Actuable grew to millions of users) and end-to-end product development from frontend JS to server provisioning. Pragmatic and hands-on, he pairs startup leadership with a longtime commitment to open government and data-driven civic impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Computer Engineering, High School, Computer Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
English, Catalan
Github Skills (9)
rails10
webpacker10
ruby-on-rails10
webpack10
scs8
javascript8
sc8
par6
cooperation6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
decidim/decidim
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:328 reviews, 189 commits, 172 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Fernando's commits primarily focus on migrating the application to Webpacker, a modern asset pipeline for Ruby on Rails. They refactored code to accommodate the new Webpacker setup, including changes to JavaScript, CSS, and image assets. Additionally, the user addressed design-related issues resulting from the Webpacker installation and removed references to custom branches, indicating a focus on streamlining the codebase.
participatory-democracycivic-techgovernmentdemocracyparticipation
ferblape/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:35 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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