Jorge González
Vice President at Cake Development Corporation
Greater Santa Cruz de Tenerife Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolJorge González is a seasoned software leader with 16 years of experience who currently serves as Vice President at Cake Development Corporation, blending hands-on development with executive management. A longtime CakePHP advocate and early adopter, he has contributed core features—like socket encryption and secure SMTP support—to the framework's official repository and helped internationalize its documentation. He spent over seven years applying CakePHP to hospitality and tourism solutions before moving into project management and leadership, and he continues to coach and train developers through CakeFest workshops and university courses. Jorge combines product-minded engineering with security-focused refactors in plugins such as CakeDC/users, improving authentication, email configuration, and test coverage. Based in Tenerife, he pairs entrepreneurial experience as a former CEO/CTO with formal training in computer engineering and innovation management. Colleagues know him as a developer-first executive who still prefers coding when tackling tricky backend problems.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero en Informática, Ingeniero en Informática at Universidad Complutense de MadridAgente - Programa de Gestores de la Innovación, Gestión de la Innovación, Agente - Programa de Gestores de la Innovación, Gestión de la Innovación at Universidad de La LagunaCurso online de liderazgo, Curso online de liderazgo at Escuela de negocios online Cajacanarias
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
1,156reputation
97kreached
38answers
3questions
cakephp
top-5%
Github Skills (27)
socket-io10
cakephp10
translation10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
smtp10
smtps10
smtpd10
php10
socket10
password-manager10
email-verification10
1password10
documentation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CakeDC/users
Mar 2012 - Nov 2022
Users Plugin for CakePHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 releases, 27 reviews, 730 commits in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily worked on improving the user authentication and management features of the CakePHP-based user plugin. They addressed issues with unnecessary error flash messages during user login and refactored the code to improve the application's security, by removing the index action allow, and enhancing the test suite, they also introduced the ability to configure the email settings and fixing the "remember me" functionality. The focus of the user's efforts was to improve the robustness and security of user login, password management, and email verification.
social-loginregistrationphprbacplugin
cakephp/docs
May 2017 - Oct 2020
CakePHP CookBook
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 67 commits, 43 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to the documentation of the CakePHP framework. Their commits focused on translating and updating existing documentation files, including tutorials and installation guides. The contributions enhanced the accessibility of the documentation by providing translations in Spanish and other languages. The user's work directly improved the documentation's clarity and usability for a wider audience.
phpcookbookcakephp
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