Joaquin Azcarate is a Senior Java Developer with 12 years of experience building resilient, data-intensive backend systems and fast-moving full-stack features from Barcelona. He combines strong functional-programming sensibilities with practical engineering—migrating session storage at scale, resolving complex concurrency issues in production, and designing backend-for-frontend gateways for mobile apps. Comfortable across the stack, he has shipped themed UI and import features in open-source projects like Drift while also adding server health endpoints and end-to-end testing to improve reliability. His background spans microservice orchestration, feature-flagged experimentation, and cloud-native deployments (Kubernetes, AWS), with notable work replacing third-party AB testing with a bespoke DSL for granular segmentation. Outside engineering he sharpens soft skills as a long-time Magic: The Gathering judge—honing conflict management, empathy, and mentoring under pressure—which informs his leadership and user-focused approach. He teaches and advocates for functional programming, bringing both classroom and hands-on experience to pragmatic, well-tested solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer, Computer Science, Software Engineer, Computer Science at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Drift is a self-hostable Gist and paste service. Built with Next.js 13 and React Server Components.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Joaquin implemented features related to theming, including system theme integration, and added UI controls. They also addressed server-side issues, such as adding a health endpoint and setting up an end-to-end testing framework. Furthermore, they implemented a description field for posts and added functionality for importing gists. These changes suggest a focus on both front-end and back-end development tasks within the project.
Quick and easy tool to get and aggregateDotA 2 hero stats and matchups
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 month
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Joaquin Azcarate - Senior Java Developer at Self Employed