Juan Riaza
Software Development Team Lead at idealista
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Riaza is a Software Development Team Lead based in Madrid with 14 years of experience building Python/Django applications, web scraping systems, and complex data pipelines. Currently leading engineering at idealista, he combines hands-on development with team leadership to deliver scalable data-driven features for a high-traffic property platform. His background includes building scraping and data solutions at Zyte and as a long-time freelance contractor, giving him deep practical expertise in extraction, transformation and documentation. He also teaches Python/Django and has academic training in steganography and digital investigations, a niche insight that informs his attention to data integrity and subtle edge cases. An active contributor to open-source projects’ documentation, he focuses on making tools more accessible and usable for developers.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
IP Erasmus: Steganography and Digital Investigations, IP Erasmus: Steganography and Digital Investigations at XIOS Hogeschool Limburg, oude naam: Hogeschool LimburgBSc in Computer Management and Information Systems Engineering, BSc in Computer Management and Information Systems Engineering at Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (14)
sphinx10
documentation10
django-models6
tastypie6
api6
aws-glue6
django-forms6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-s36
spotify6
django6
django-templates6
python4
css3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jorgebastida/glue
Jan 2012 - Jan 2012
Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Juan primarily focused on improving the project's documentation. Their commits fixed typos, clarified explanations, and added new sections like "png8" to the documentation, indicating an effort to make the project more user-friendly and accessible. They also updated the quickstart and installation guides, alongside changes to the changelog, thus ensuring comprehensive documentation updates. These changes provide improved guidance on using and understanding the "glue" tool.
command-line-toolspritescssgluecss-sprites
juanriaza/django-rest-framework-msgpack
Jan 2013 - Apr 2017
MessagePack support for Django REST framework
Contributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 4 months
pythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangomessagepackdjango-rest
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