Juan Jara
Front-end Engineer at CARTO
Seville, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolJuan Jara is a front-end engineer with 13 years of experience, combining deep JavaScript expertise (React, AngularJS, D3, Node.js) with hands-on full-stack work and occasional PostgreSQL/DevOps responsibilities. Currently at CARTO in Seville, he contributes to location intelligence and data-visualization products and has improved backend error handling and Data Observatory infrastructure in a notable open-source repo. Trained in Software Engineering at Universidad de Sevilla, he moves fluidly between polished UIs and backend integrations, favoring modern build tools and standards-driven web practices. His curiosity drives continuous learning of emerging web standards and pragmatic adoption of technologies to solve real user problems. He is motivated by building tools that simplify people’s lives and has a track record of shipping practical features that reduce operational noise (e.g., preventing Rollbar exceptions and eliminating duplicate DB job code).
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Seville
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (17)
postgresql10
cartodb10
ruby10
asynchronous9
devops9
database-management9
data-engineering8
geospatial7
geolocation7
ubuntu6
html6
php6
python6
python-asyncio6
celery6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/cartodb
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Location Intelligence & Data Visualization tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 229 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Juan contributed to backend code, focusing on improvements to the error handling and user experience. They implemented a feature to prevent Rollbar exceptions and also used Carto::Bolt to avoid duplicate code in the user DB jobs. Furthermore, the user was involved in setting up and configuring Data Observatory related infrastructure. They also merged a branch related to Data Observatory subscriptions.
visualizationgeospatialgeofencinggeographyh3
juanrmn/localStorage-tools
Sep 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:39 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 11 months
elementsjavascriptdomainavoidjavascript-localstorage
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