Julio Camarero
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJulio Camarero is a Principal Software Engineer based in Madrid with 17 years of experience building cloud-native and full-stack systems, currently focusing on Elastic Cloud. He has deep expertise in scalable back-end architectures, search (Elasticsearch), and AWS-powered data platforms, and previously led cloud infrastructure and big-data initiatives at Liferay where he combined Spring Boot, HATEOAS APIs and ML-ready pipelines. Julio is also a seasoned contributor to open-source projects—his work spans both back-end Java plugins and front-end UI improvements in well-known projects like Liferay and AlloyUI—demonstrating comfort across the stack. He blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, having led WCM and core platform development, mentored teams, and co-founded a startup, bringing an entrepreneurial mindset to product-focused engineering. Notably, his academic background toward a PhD in Telecommunications underscores a strong foundation in systems and research-driven problem solving.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Colegio AgustinianoPHD Telecommunications and Computer systems, PHD Telecommunications and Computer systems at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
java10
alloy10
javas10
yui10
json9
apim9
ui-design9
api9
html9
elasticsearch6
macos6
liferay6
bash6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-plugins
Nov 2008 - Apr 2016
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:253 commits, 3 pushes in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Julio's commits indicate the development of a new portlet plugin for publishing Netvibes widgets. This included creating a Java class to handle Netvibes widget functionality with categories, types, and regions. The user also created new portlets for the Webform and the WOL plugin. The work involved Java, JSON, and the use of APIs related to widget publishing.
liferay/alloy-ui
Sep 2009 - Feb 2011
Repo Moved. AlloyUI is a framework built on top of YUI3 (JavaScript) that uses Bootstrap 3 (HTML/CSS) to provide a simple API for building high scalable applications
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Julio primarily contributed to the UI/UX of the AlloyUI framework. Their commits involve CSS modifications for form elements, specifically for styling input choices and clearing properties to allow inline display. They also updated JavaScript files to change anchor elements, and added new demos that use aui-form-manager, indicating a focus on enhancements and features. They addressed a defect regarding thicker close icons in dialogs, and kept a reference to the opener iframe, reflecting a focus on component and framework enhancements.
bootstrapcssjavascript
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