Juan Barreto
Staff Backend Engineer at StuDocu | StudeerSnel.nl
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJuan Barreto is a Staff Backend Engineer based in Amsterdam with 12 years of experience building scalable, high-availability web systems and real-time features. He progressed from full-stack and CTO roles to technical leadership at StuDocu, where he focuses on software design, architecture, and mentoring teams to deliver reliable systems. A pragmatic technologist, he prioritizes automation and the right tools to eliminate repetitive work while insisting on solid development processes and cross-team coordination. He contributes to open-source PHP tooling—improving Laravel Scout with features and tests—demonstrating attention to code quality and production-ready behavior. Comfortable spanning client-side UX challenges to backend architecture, he combines curiosity about why things work with a hands-on approach to lead technical teams effectively.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Computer Science at Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
php10
laravel10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
phpunit10
algolia7
meilisearch7
html6
javascript6
knockoutjs6
addeventlistener6
canvas6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/scout
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Laravel Scout provides a driver based solution to searching your Eloquent models.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Juan primarily contributed to enhancing the Laravel Scout library. Their work includes implementing features like `scoutSensitiveAttributes` and `searchShouldUpdate`, which improve model update handling. They also added unit tests to validate these new functionalities and the behavior of the model observer concerning soft deletes and update checks, demonstrating a focus on code quality and reliability.
scoutphplaravel-scoutalgoliameilisearch
juampi92/auto-updater
Mar 2014 - Jun 2018
Node.js auto-update plugin
Contributions:2 releases, 41 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 4 months
node-jsjavascriptauto-updatepluginupdate
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