Javier Hidalgo
Senior Software Engineer I at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJavier Hidalgo is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web applications and microservices, currently leading service development at Booking.com from Amsterdam. He has broad language exposure—Perl, Java, NodeJS, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript—and strong front-end skills with React and GraphQL used in both internal tools and partner-facing sites. Javier has a track record of modernizing legacy systems and improving developer velocity through refactors and pragmatic architecture decisions. Earlier roles include shipping large web projects for major Peruvian companies and co-founding a web shop, evidencing entrepreneurial initiative and delivery focus. He balances depth in backend service design with hands-on UI experimentation (A/B testing) to improve user experience. Outside of work he codes from Amsterdam while juggling life as a father, reflecting a disciplined yet curious approach to engineering and learning.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at ISIL Aprende Haciendo
English, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
laravel9
mobile-web9
chrome9
laravel-translatable8
html8
css8
ruby8
interop8
javascript8
php7
database6
laravel-package6
testing6
integration-testing5
bdd5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
javichito/Lyricfy
May 2013 - Aug 2017
Song Lyrics for your Ruby apps.
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 4 months
ruby
javichito/rgsql-relational
Dec 2025 - Feb 2026
Test suite for the relational database
Contributions:4 releases, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
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