Jordi De Balanda
Software Engineer at Backmarket
France
Summary
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Top SchoolJordi De Balanda is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years’ experience building reliable back-end systems and observability features for cloud-scale projects. He has contributed to notable open-source work like Scality’s CloudServer, adding Prometheus metrics endpoints and repairing critical storage API interactions to improve monitoring and resilience. Jordi has applied his systems expertise at Scality, Datadog and now Back Market, blending production-ready engineering with a strong attention to operational detail. His background spans both front-end work (Software Heritage) and embedded/secure connectivity evaluation (Airbus Helicopters), giving him a broad systems-to-UI perspective. Educated in physics and computer science in Exeter and Paris, he brings analytical rigor and pragmatic problem-solving to distributed systems. Colleagues value his knack for turning subtle API and metadata issues into maintainable, observable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at University of Exeter
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
nodejs10
prometheus10
monitoring9
object-storage9
cloud-storage8
dockers7
docker7
storage7
aws-s37
version-control6
android-studio6
github6
android6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
scality/cloudserver
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Zenko CloudServer, an open-source Node.js implementation of the Amazon S3 protocol on the front-end and backend storage capabilities to multiple clouds, including Azure and Google.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 38 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jordi's contributions primarily focused on improving the monitoring capabilities of the CloudServer application. They implemented a Prometheus metrics endpoint, creating a new HTTP server instance to serve metrics data. Additionally, the user addressed breaking API changes in the underlying Arsenal library, particularly regarding metadata database interactions. They also corrected bucket client error introspection within several APIs.
zenkostorageawsfront-endmultiple-clouds
jbertran/collate
Apr 2019 - Apr 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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