Fernando Costa
RoR Lead Developer at Rankia
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolFernando Costa is a RoR Lead Developer based in Valencia with over 11 years building and maintaining high-traffic Ruby on Rails platforms, notably leading backend development for Rankia and verema.com. He combines pragmatic engineering—clear, self-documenting code, disciplined testing and refactoring—with a strong sense for performance trade-offs (favoring correct DB indexing and set-based operations over micro-optimizations). A developer who openly learns from past mistakes, he values readable code, measured DRY application, and knowing when to bend best practices for the right reasons. His experience spans the full web stack and includes early career work in PowerBuilder and large data-processing tasks, giving him practical breadth across legacy and modern systems. Outside of engineering he blogs and invests, bringing a critical, product-minded view to building sustainable, long-lived software.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Lincenciado en Informática, Sistemas, Lincenciado en Informática, Sistemas at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (31)
rubocop10
static-code-analysis10
static-analysis10
analyzer10
formatter10
rails10
ruby10
code-analyzer10
linter10
activemodel10
mvc9
attachment9
ruby-on-rails9
html9
activerecord9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Soluciones/news_tematica
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:27 PRs, 80 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year
primerphpengine
Soluciones/suscribir
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:30 PRs, 53 pushes, 27 branches in 10 months
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