Ignasi Marimon-clos
Senior Software Engineer at Hopper
Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolIgnasi Marimon-clos is a Senior Software Engineer based in Catalonia with 20+ years in software and 13 years focused on Scala/Java backend systems, currently driving resilient, reactive solutions at Hopper. He has led architecture and tech teams since 2009 on high-stakes international projects across Energy IoT, eDemocracy and Healthcare, and champions test-first development, CI since 2005, and iterative releases. A longtime contributor to the Akka and Play ecosystems (including maintenance and reliability improvements to akka-http, akka-grpc and Play Framework), he blends deep distributed-systems and Big Data engineering knowledge with pragmatic DevOps and build tooling expertise. As CTO and freelance coach he has migrated monoliths to microservices on AWS, automated CD pipelines, and coached teams to adopt XP practices—once driving a 40x performance gain in a large refactor. He pairs hands-on coding with leadership in developer communities, organizing meetups and conferences to spread best practices.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Catalan, Spanish, Italian, French
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Github Skills (49)
dependency-management10
application-framework10
json10
tls1210
testing10
app-framework10
http10
server-configuration10
sbt10
akka10
tls1310
jdbc10
akka-http10
java10
scala10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
playframework/play-samples
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Play Framework Sample Projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 96 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ignasi primarily worked on the TLS example project within the repository. Their contributions involved modifying server configurations, specifically addressing TLS-related issues by redoing and updating certificates due to expiration. Further, the user made several changes to test configurations, increasing timeouts and making tests more portable. The user also updated the project to a newer Play Framework version.
jvmwebappscalaplayframework
akka/akka-grpc
Mar 2018 - Aug 2021
A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 96 reviews, 123 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ignasi primarily focused on implementing and testing gRPC client functionality within the Akka gRPC framework. Their work involved adding support for unimplemented services, handling status codes and messages, and fixing issues related to missing imports. The user also contributed to the testing infrastructure, ensuring the gRPC client's correct behavior and interaction. They also worked on the build system to trigger PB.recompile on .proto changes and made adjustments to the client settings.
rpcakka-grpcprotobufgrpcstreaming
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