Jordi Arqués
Staff Software Engineer at Affirm
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolJordi Arqués is a Staff Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 12 years of experience designing and shipping distributed, cloud-native systems across payments, observability, localization, and fraud detection domains. He has held senior engineering roles at Twilio, Ocado Technology, Amazon, and currently Affirm, routinely building middleware, streaming pipelines and localization integrations using Java, Spring, Python, React and AWS services. Jordi blends hands-on implementation with systems thinking—leading projects from monolith-to-microservice migrations to rolling out Prometheus-based monitoring and Kinesis-backed metrics platforms. He co-founded an IoT/home-automation startup and has academic roots in signal processing and telecommunications, which informs a pragmatic approach to embedded and real-time problems (his master’s thesis and a sound projector design highlight that background). Active on GitHub and Google Play with multiple personal projects, he balances production-grade engineering with experimental side work spanning mobile apps and hardware. Known for bridging product requirements and resilient engineering, he thrives on turning complex integrations into reliable, maintainable services.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Thesis in Signal Processing and Digital Communication, Telecommunications Engineering, Master Thesis in Signal Processing and Digital Communication, Telecommunications Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Catalan, Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (9)
json6
actor6
heroku6
aggregate6
android6
akka6
rest6
scala6
java6
Github contributions (5)
jalvaro/localization-dummy-project
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
jalvaro/monicaijordi
Feb 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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