Javier Vela
Greater Santa Cruz de Tenerife Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJavier Vela is an experienced Analista-Programador with a decade of professional experience building full-stack applications using Spring Boot, React and JavaScript, currently contributing to the NAOS project for the Junta de Andalucía. He combines public-sector delivery with hands-on cloud and backend work, drawing on contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Dapr where he added AWS SES bindings and enhanced actor timer functionality. Previously at BITBOX he worked as a full-stack developer, and his GitHub history shows practical expertise with cloud storage and messaging integrations across AWS and GCP. Based in Tenerife, he blends formal vocational training in web and systems disciplines with continuous self-driven learning in modern cloud-native toolchains. Colleagues would describe him as a dependable implementer who moves between frontend polish and low-level integrations, with a knack for making distributed components reliable. He also brings an unusual mix of public-sector project experience and open-source collaboration that helps bridge institutional needs and community-driven tooling.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Desarrollo de Aplicaciones, Grado Superior, 8, Desarrollo de Aplicaciones, Grado Superior, 8 at IES Cesar ManriqueFormación Profesional de Grado Superior, Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster, Formación Profesional de Grado Superior, Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster at CIP LA LAGUNA
Github Skills (21)
go-modules10
aws-ses10
microservices-application10
go10
aws-s310
microservices10
blob-storage9
event-driven9
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
container7
sql-server3
mongodb3
amazon-sns3
amazon-sqs3
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dapr/components-contrib
Jan 2021 - Oct 2021
Community driven, reusable components for distributed apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Javier primarily focused on enhancing and expanding the functionality of various components within the Dapr ecosystem. They implemented features like email priority settings for the SMTP binding and fixed related issues, as well as added a new AWS SES binding. Furthermore, the user implemented and expanded the functionality of AWS S3 and GCP bucket bindings, which included adding operations for get, delete, and list functionalities. The contributions demonstrate a solid understanding of cloud storage, email services, and API development.
sqlserverevent-hubscommunity-drivenmongodbcosmos-db
dapr/dapr
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Javier contributed to the Dapr project by implementing and integrating an AWS SES binding. Their work included adding new AWS SES output binding functionality within the Dapr runtime, as well as updating the `go.mod` file to include necessary dependencies. Furthermore, they merged changes from the master branch and enhanced actor timer functionality within the project, specifically adding a `ttl` parameter. Finally, they made some changes around the MTLS enabling and operator client configurations.
daprevent-driven-architecturemicroservicesmicroservicekubernetes
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