Julio F
Chief Technology Officer at Animo
Uruguay
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJulio F is a seasoned backend consultant and systems engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable LAMP-based platforms, most recently leading backend development at The Next Web and running infrastructure for Twitter Counter. He combines hands-on PHP and sysadmin expertise with deployment automation (Ansible, Capistrano) and direct experience managing 10+ server fleets. An active open-source contributor, Julio has improved core functionality in high-profile projects like the Laravel framework and enhanced AMP support for WordPress, showing attention to robustness and content compatibility. Based in Uruguay, he enjoys improving tooling and devops workflows, and — as he jokingly notes on GitHub — even finds satisfaction in tidying up tracking UTM tags.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Telecommunications, Master, Telecommunications at Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
Github Skills (19)
application-framework10
laravel-mix10
ampl10
wordpress10
app-framework10
laravel10
google-amp10
php10
web-framework10
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
html9
database-management9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Jan 2016 - Aug 2018
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 commits, 10 PRs, 19 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Julio contributed to the Laravel framework by fixing bugs and improving existing features. Their work includes correcting the data type of database columns, adjusting how hidden model attributes are handled, updating a helper function's documentation, and correcting how middleware interacts with request recording. These contributions indicate a focus on improving the framework's core functionality and stability.
laravelphpframework
ampproject/amp-wp
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Enable AMP on your WordPress site, the WordPress way.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 26 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Julio primarily focused on enhancing the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) functionality within the WordPress plugin. Their work involved implementing support for `amp-anim` tags for GIF images, adding a new Instagram embed handler, and modifying the URL patterns for the Instagram embed. Additionally, the user updated the sanitizer to load content using UTF8 encoding. These changes improve the integration of external content and optimize the plugin for AMP compatibility.
wordpresswordpress-pluginamp
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