Johnny Salas
Principal Software Engineer at Twilio
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolJohnny Salas is a Principal Software Engineer at Twilio with over a decade of cross-platform experience spanning frontend, backend, DevOps and native mobile/desktop apps. A hands-on tech leader and mentor, he drives teams with pragmatic practices—Scrum, Git Flow, clean code and peer programming—while prioritizing customer experience and automation. He authors Neovim plugins for developer productivity (text-case.nvim and upcoming programmable-bindings.nvim), demonstrating a penchant for small tooling that yields outsized efficiency gains. Known for rethinking simpler, high-impact solutions and placing engineers where they thrive, he also speaks on data visualization and runs bootcamps to grow technical capability. Based in Bogotá, he blends humility and ownership, listening before contributing and favoring measurable outcomes over clever abstractions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English for international business , English as a second language, English for international business , English as a second language at The University of QueenslandEngineer of systems, Maths, physics, computer science, computer programming, administration, systems analysis, Engineer of systems, Maths, physics, computer science, computer programming, administration, systems analysis at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (45)
neovim9
session-manager8
session-management7
expo-router6
drizzle6
react6
vim6
onload6
emacs6
styled-components6
react-native-web6
jquery6
npm6
javascript6
react-native6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
johmsalas/text-case.nvim
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
An all in one plugin for converting text case in Neovim
Contributions:3 releases, 139 reviews, 42 commits in 4 months
neovim
johmsalas/shake.nvim
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 months
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