Juan Velasco
Principal Engineer at Yorba
Seville, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolJuan Velasco is a Principal Engineer based in Seville with 14 years of experience building robust backend and distributed systems, currently shaping architecture and delivery at Yorba. He is a seasoned Clojureist who moved from a multimedia and design background into software, bringing a strong emphasis on functional programming, pragmatic engineering, and developer culture. Juan has led technical teams and product design work across web3 stacks (IPFS/IPLD, Hypercore, libp2p) and has deep experience designing APIs, SDKs, and resilient distributed backends. His career includes long-term Clojure backend roles and influential work introducing teams to functional paradigms, paired with earlier Java/JEE teaching and enterprise systems expertise. Known for thoughtful, quiet leadership and a knack for balancing speed with quality, he prizes clear architecture and collaborative decision-making. Fluent in tooling for expressive developer workflows (Emacs, Org-mode) and Lisp-family languages, he blends creative visual thinking from his arts education with rigorous systems engineering.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleMaster Multimedia Communication - ESCOLA BAU (BARCELONA) UNIVERSIDAD DEL VIC, Master Multimedia Communication - ESCOLA BAU (BARCELONA) UNIVERSIDAD DEL VIC at Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya
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Github Skills (199)
cider10
data-cleaning10
wallet10
rocks10
sign-in-with-apple10
clojure10
data-visualization10
authz10
openid10
bootstrap10
bootstrap-components10
iframe10
idp10
react10
javascript9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
milesian/BigBang
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:30 commits, 3 comments in 19 days
akvo/akvo-lumen
Apr 2018 - Nov 2021
Make sense of your data
Contributions:1 release, 79 reviews, 2484 commits in 3 years 8 months
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