Juan Arocha
Principal Software Engineer at Glovo
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Arocha is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently evolving into a Director of Engineering while leading platform and architecture work at Glovo in Barcelona. He progressed through multiple senior technical roles at Glovo since 2019, combining hands‑on design and coding with cross‑team technical leadership. Earlier in his career he co‑founded ZOMOZ and served as CTO at ZOI Venezuela, bringing entrepreneurial product instincts and end‑to‑end delivery experience. Educated in computer engineering at Universidad Simón Bolívar and Télécom SudParis, he blends formal engineering rigor with pragmatic startup problem‑solving. Juan is fluent in scaling teams and systems across fast‑moving markets, and quietly favors mentoring engineers and improving developer experience as levers for long‑term velocity.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Ingénieur Informatique, BS Ingénieur Informatique at Universidad Simón BolívarMEng Computer Engineering, MEng Computer Engineering at Télécom SudParis
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (106)
javascript10
angular10
typescript10
nodejs10
react10
web-developer9
web-performance9
drag-and-drop9
web-framework9
json-api9
firebase-cloud-messaging9
api8
firebase-realtime-database8
firebase-authentication8
firebase8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zomoz/zmz-calendar
Feb 2017 - Oct 2018
angular2 responsive calendar
Contributions:33 PRs, 90 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 8 months
responsivecalendarangular2angular
chamini2/IS-PS
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:55 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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