José López
Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder at Vizlegal
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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SeniorJosé López is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with over a decade of experience building scalable web and infrastructure systems from Dublin. As CTO of Vizlegal and former Senior Architect roles, he blends hands-on backend engineering (Ruby/Rails) with DevOps expertise, having contributed to well-known infrastructure tooling like the nginx Chef cookbook. His roots in GNU/Linux and open source inform a pragmatic approach to high-availability architectures, continuous deployment, and team leadership across in-house and outsourced teams. José also mentors startup founders on technology strategy and has a background in user-focused design, giving him a rare combination of systems-level rigor and product empathy. Longstanding involvement in free-software communities and event organization speaks to his collaborative, research-driven mindset and curiosity for R&D.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
chef-client10
cookbook10
chef-solo10
nginx10
ruby9
debian9
git7
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/nginx
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Development repository for the nginx cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:José primarily contributed to the nginx cookbook by adding support for the Phusion Passenger repository, modifying configuration files, and fixing rubocop offenses. They added functionality related to nodejs support within the nginx setup by updating configuration templates. In addition, the user made changes to recipes and attributes. These changes indicate a focus on extending the functionality and maintaining the configuration of nginx within the context of this cookbook.
nginxchef-resourcechefmanaged-by-terraform
jalberto/bass-vim
Feb 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:202 pushes, 4 branches in 11 years 1 month
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