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.
10 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 (50)
converting10
lua9
neovim-plugin9
nvim8
neovim8
npm7
emacs-lisp7
emacs7
plugin7
vim7
expo-router7
session-manager7
drizzle7
package-manager6
react6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
johmsalas/text-case.nvim
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 139 reviews, 42 commits in 4 months
luaall-in-oneconvertingneovimnvim
johmsalas/shake.nvim
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 months
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