Javier Carrascal
Lead Backend Magento Developer (Remote Contract) at The Theo Paphitis Retail Group
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJavier Carrascal is a Lead Backend Magento Developer with over 12 years of hands-on experience building and optimizing high‑traffic e-commerce platforms across retail and learning sectors. He specializes in scalable architecture, performance tuning and legacy modernization—rewriting queries, adding indexes and optimizing checkout flows to handle sale peaks for brands like Robert Dyas and Ryman. Equally comfortable in operations and development, he routinely applies AWS, Docker and CI/CD (Jenkins) to deliver reliable production systems. A proven team-builder and mentor, he has led backend efforts to onboard acquired stores into Magento and steer cross-functional teams through complex integrations with ERP systems. His background in QA, load testing and TDD informs a pragmatic, data-driven approach to performance and reliability that’s often invisible until traffic surges hit. Based in London, he is available for remote contracts and blends deep PHP/Magento expertise with broader platform knowledge from Symfony, Python and cloud tooling.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Coursera - Software Engineering for SaaS, Coursera - Software Engineering for SaaS at University of California, BerkeleyAdvanced Technician in EDP applications development., Advanced Technician in EDP applications development. at Colegio Salesiano San JoséEdx - Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (Python), Edx - Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (Python) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaTechnical Engineering, Computer Systems., Technical Engineering, Computer Systems. at Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
Spanish, English, Catalan
Stackoverflow
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69answers
12questions
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Github Skills (90)
android10
react-native10
react10
magento9
api9
instagram9
azure-storage9
filesystem9
ios9
php9
cross-platform9
vfs9
mobile9
nodejs9
azure-data-lake9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
javilumbrales/magento2-first-module
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
thedeveloperworldisyours/magento2-openshift
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
ecommerceplatformsmagento2openshiftkubernetes
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