Jorge Tarrero
Programmer at Softonic
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJorge Tarrero is a seasoned back-end programmer with 14 years of experience based in the Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area, currently working at Softonic. He focuses on infrastructure and database-level improvements, with notable open-source contributions to projects like CartoDB (optimizing IP firewall storage using Redis) and Lura (enhancing API gateway robustness and concurrency). Jorge combines pragmatic performance work—Redis integrations and race-condition fixes—with attention to maintainability, such as metadata normalization and tooling warning resolutions. His profile shows a developer comfortable in high-throughput, distributed systems and in improving core middleware behavior rather than surface features. An alumnus of Universidad de Sevilla, he brings steady long-term experience and a preference for backend reliability and operational efficiency.
14 years of coding experience
University of Seville
Github Skills (18)
apim10
middleware10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
redis10
api-design10
go10
api10
api-gateway10
golang10
ruby9
proxies9
yaml8
rspec8
routers7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/cartodb
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
Location Intelligence & Data Visualization tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 122 reviews, 148 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jorge's commits primarily focused on backend development, specifically enhancing the database firewall functionality. This involved storing IP firewall information in Redis to improve performance and implementing the integration with Redis, including adding code to store and reset firewall data in the Redis database. The user also made changes to controller specifications for IP creation and deletion, and metadata normalization. The work demonstrates a focus on database and infrastructure-level improvements.
visualizationgeospatialgeofencinggeographyh3
luraproject/lura
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily focused on improving the Lura API gateway, addressing several key aspects of the project. They removed race warnings, indicating a focus on code quality and concurrency. They also enabled YAML output encoding and fixed Deepsource warnings. Furthermore, they implemented global parameter propagation for sequential mergers, demonstrating a contribution to the core functionality of the API gateway.
api-gatewaybackend-serviceskong-pluginultraperformant
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