Juan Ripa
Software Engineer at Swedbank
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolJuan Ripa is a seasoned software engineer and developer experience leader based in Stockholm, with a 15+-year engineering background and nine years of focused industry experience delivering full‑stack solutions, internal platforms, and developer tooling. Currently driving Engineering Excellence at SAS, he blends strategic adoption of AI and advanced tooling across the SDLC with hands‑on platform work—having led Backstage enhancements that boosted adoption and cut project setup from weeks to a day. He has deep practical experience with TypeScript, React, serverless Azure architectures, and CI/CD automation, and has contributed meaningful improvements to the widely used open-source Backstage project. A pragmatic mentor and coach, Juan pairs technical scaffolding and templates with measurable KPIs and observability to scale team productivity. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational data into tooling decisions that tangibly accelerate time‑to‑production.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Analista de Sistemas Análisis de sistemas informáticos/Analista, Analista de Sistemas Análisis de sistemas informáticos/Analista at Universitas Estudios Superiores
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
backstage10
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
cicd7
html6
css6
twitter-bootstrap6
cobol6
react-hooks6
treeview6
angularjs6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 56 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily contributed to the Backstage project by enhancing the catalog plugins and improving code quality. They added features to the entity switch component, allowing for multiple component types, kinds, and namespaces. Furthermore, the user fixed deprecation messages, cleaned up descriptions, and applied code formatting, indicating a focus on improving the developer experience and maintainability of the codebase. They also added support to `exist_key` filters to the scaffolder.
backstageinfrastructuredxdeveloper-experiencedeveloper-portal
Sarabadu/TallerJs
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 1 month
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