Jose Barroso
Staff Software Engineer at Perl Street (YC W22)
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Barroso is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across ecommerce, fintech, SaaS and game development, currently working on Feature-as-a-Service and green fintech products in Berlin. He combines hands-on implementation (TypeScript, Mongo, distributed systems, Unity) with a strong track record of instituting TDD, DDD, CI/CD and agile practices to turn fast-growing and long-lived applications into disciplined, maintainable platforms. Jose has repeatedly formed and mentored teams to adopt robust software processes and keeps teams engaged through workshops and internal presentations. Internationally seasoned—born in Cádiz, studied in Sevilla and Berlin, and having worked in Germany and Vietnam—he brings both cross-cultural collaboration skills and a practical focus on shipping measurable impact.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleERASMUS Program, Computer Science, ERASMUS Program, Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (138)
displays10
cargo10
python10
linux10
wasm-bindgen10
crt10
recreate10
fpga10
rust10
arcade10
mister10
rfc10
love2d10
vintage10
updating10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
MiSTer-DB9/MegaCD_MiSTer
Apr 2020 - May 2026
Mega CD for MiSTer
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
megadrivegrav-plugin
MiSTer-unstable-nightlies/C64_MiSTer
Feb 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:82 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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