Juan Del Canto
Engineering Manager at Flywire
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolJuan Del Canto is an engineering manager and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently leading platform and payments engineering at Flywire while still contributing hands-on to production systems. He brings deep backend expertise in Ruby and Java, bolstered by long-standing open-source stewardship of Spring Roo and active contributions to the Grape API framework, evidencing both framework-level design and DevOps fluency. His career blends technical leadership with on-call platform reliability responsibilities, making him comfortable across deployment, build tooling, and incident management. Based in Valencia, he also mentors teams from a strong academic foundation in computer engineering and a history of driving RAD tooling and API stability that few managers can claim.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico Superior Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas, Técnico Superior Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas at Florida UniversitàriaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Catalan
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Github Skills (32)
api-rest10
grapesjs10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
rspec10
cicd10
ruby10
api10
build-automation10
gr10
spring-boot10
maven10
rest-api10
scripting9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spring-attic/spring-roo
May 2014 - Jun 2019
Spring Roo is a next-generation rapid application development tool for Java developers. It focuses on higher productivity, stock-standard Java APIs, high usability, avoiding engineering trade-offs and facilitating easy Roo removal.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 898 commits, 48 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Juan's commits primarily focus on the Spring Roo Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool, specifically addressing Bamboo build errors and ensuring compatibility with Java 8. The user updated and modified various build scripts to address errors. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of Spring Boot, dependencies, Maven project structure, and the deployment process. The user has a likely DevOps engineer in handling test issues, and back-end developer, based on the tool context.
spring-bootnext-generationusabilityspring-rooproductivity
ruby-grape/grape
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
An opinionated framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 6 PRs, 30 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the Grape API framework. They fixed bugs related to parameter handling and instance variable usage within the framework. Additionally, the user implemented a feature allowing the use of a parameter value as the default value of another parameter. They also addressed issues in the API's error handling and path recognition mechanisms.
ruby-on-railsapirails-apirubyrest
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