Javier Medina
Co-Founder at Tinybird.co
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJavier Medina is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building data-driven web products and developer tools, currently co-founding Tinybird from Madrid. He evolved from front-end roles at Vizzuality and CARTO into leadership positions—Builder Tech Lead and Head of Technology—bringing deep expertise in location intelligence, visualization, and time-series mapping. Javier is a hands-on full-stack contributor to prominent open-source projects like CartoDB and torque, where he improved UI widgets, geometry rendering, and temporal mapping integrations. He combines product sensibility with low-level engineering, handling build processes, styling integration, and provider checks. Known for an attention to UX detail (and a fondness for Gentoo penguins), he translates complex geospatial requirements into polished, performant interfaces.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Técnico Informática, Ingeniero Técnico Informática at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
webmap10
web-development10
user-interface10
leaflet10
postgresql9
cartocss9
css9
build-process8
api-design7
html7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/cartodb
Mar 2011 - Dec 2017
Location Intelligence & Data Visualization tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11288 commits, 1262 PRs, 3056 pushes in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Javier primarily worked on fixing UI elements related to different widgets. They addressed issues related to color choices, and were responsible for improvements concerning the display and functionality of time-series, torque, and category widgets. Furthermore, the user also made code modifications to enhance the display for all the geometry components and added a specific feature within data-observatory.
visualizationgeospatialgeofencinggeographyh3
CartoDB/torque
Dec 2013 - Nov 2017
Temporal mapping for CARTO
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Javier's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the `torque` library, a temporal mapping tool for CARTO. They added functionality to retrieve attribution information from the CanvasLayer component. Further commits involved generating new versions of the `torque.js` file, indicating involvement in build processes. The user also made changes to the CartoCSS integration and provider checks, suggesting work on integrating styling and data providers.
mappingtemporalcarto
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