Joaquín Triñanes
Full Stack Engineer at Cawa
Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Top SchoolJoaquín Triñanes is a Full Stack Engineer based in Santiago de Compostela with 10 years of experience building web applications and developer-focused integrations. He blends academic depth—pursuing a PhD and holding a Master's in High Performance Computing—with practical product work across startups and NGOs, including leadership at Vegan Hacktivists and roles at Vizzuality and Situm. Joaquín has hands-on expertise in improving developer workflows, exemplified by contributions to the popular nix-community/home-manager where he enhanced nushell integration and environment handling. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he focuses on usability and robustness, often refactoring and adding features that simplify configuration and developer experience. Now at Cawa, he continues to bridge research-grade thinking with pragmatic engineering to deliver maintainable systems. He signs his GitHub bio "Type police," hinting at a detail-oriented, correctness-minded approach to code and documentation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Tecnología de la información, PhD Tecnología de la información at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Spanish, Galician, English
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Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
nixos10
nushell10
dotfile10
home-manager10
nix10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
bash8
zsh7
mpi6
multidimensional-arrays6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nix-community/home-manager
Dec 2023 - Nov 2025
Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@khaneliman, @rycee]
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 15 PRs, 34 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Joaquín primarily worked on enhancing the integration of the home-manager configuration with nushell, a command-line shell. Their contributions involved modifying existing configurations to accommodate nushell's environment variable transformations and plugin integrations. They also refactored code, improved formatting, and added new features like the ability to set environment variables. This work demonstrates a focus on improving the usability and functionality of home-manager within a nushell environment.
nixnixpkgsdotfilesnixosnix-dotfiles
veganhacktivists/fast-forum
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Maintained by Vegan Hacktivists, designed by Violet Studios, built and based on LessWrong & EAForum.
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 102 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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