Gabriel Anca
Software Engineer at Datadog
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolGabriel Anca is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building scalable web platforms and APIs, now contributing to Datadog after several senior roles at Intercom. He blends a dual background in computer science and business from Universidad Carlos III with hands-on expertise across PHP, Ruby on Rails, Next.js/React, and cloud-native tooling, having led an 8-engineer team to improve website architecture for scalability and reliability. Gabriel has a strong platform focus—working on data storage, search, developer APIs and App Store features—and contributed to the popular intercom-php open-source SDK, improving user management and modernizing the codebase for PHP 7.1+. Comfortable in DevOps and backend systems, he has rebuilt APIs to integrate multiple ERP and virtualization backends and routinely pairs product experimentation (A/B testing) with engineering rigor. Colleagues describe him as curious and business-minded, with a track record of mentoring, on-call support, and migrating legacy systems toward more maintainable architectures.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
International Exchange Business Administration and Management General, International Exchange Business Administration and Management General at University of VictoriaCharles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Spanish, English, neerlandés, Galician
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Github Skills (11)
intercom10
php10
api10
apidoc10
unit-testing9
error-handling8
cicd7
http6
html6
audio-streaming6
guzzle6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
intercom/intercom-php
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
PHP bindings for the Intercom API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 27 reviews, 30 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to the PHP bindings for the Intercom API. Their work included implementing features related to user management, such as archiving, deleting, and permanently deleting users, as well as adding the capability to get a single company. They also focused on code improvements like indentation, styling, and the implementation of error handling. Furthermore, the user was involved in the migration of the project to use HTTPPlug and updating to PHP 7.1+.
apiintercom-apiphp-bindingsphpintercom
LeaseWeb/LswVsphereClientBundle
Jan 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
api-clientapibundlephpvsphere-api
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