Juan Lara
Lead Engineer at Cavela
Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain
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Top SchoolJuan Lara is a Lead Engineer and seasoned software professional with over two decades of experience delivering backend systems, data platforms and developer-led teams across startups and enterprise environments. He combines hands-on expertise in PostgreSQL/PostGIS, location intelligence and scalable backend APIs with people leadership—having led teams up to 20 engineers and guided career growth, on-call practices and platform ownership. His work on CartoDB and contributions to location-data tooling demonstrate deep domain knowledge in geospatial data, map tiles and ETL pipelines, while recent roles show a shift toward AI-enabled product-to-manufacturing workflows. Based in Valladolid, Spain, he also co-founded products, runs side projects like Idiom Coach, and writes about software development, signaling an entrepreneurial curiosity and a continuous drive to improve developer and data workflows.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería Superior Informática Computer Science, Ingeniería Superior Informática Computer Science at Universidad de ValladolidLa Salle, Valladolid
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Github Skills (7)
postgresql10
ruby10
api8
activerecord8
api-design8
apidoc8
database-design7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/cartodb
Oct 2014 - May 2019
Location Intelligence & Data Visualization tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4568 commits, 1132 PRs, 2460 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Juan's commits primarily focus on modifying core database and backend logic for the location intelligence and data visualization tool. The changes involve modifying existing code for table name generation, database migrations, and API endpoints. Several commits address aspects of the code base like handling of database, user management, and email delivery system.
visualizationgeospatialgeofencinggeographyh3
juanignaciosl/cartodb-chrome-extension
Nov 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:103 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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