Karlo Soriano
Pasay, Philippines
Summary
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Top SchoolKarlo Soriano is a seasoned full-stack software developer with 11 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, with deep expertise in rescuing and modernizing legacy codebases. He has driven product iterations and revenue growth—leading Kaido V2 development that helped double its 2020 revenue in a single quarter—and contributed to prominent open-source work for Exercism, improving site architecture and tooling. Comfortable in remote, distributed teams, Karlo has improved engineering practices and test coverage across multiple companies, automated infrastructure with Ansible/Packer/Terraform, and cut deployment and setup times dramatically. He combines hands-on refactoring and front-end polish with pragmatic automation, and has a history of shipping measurable business impact from both internal platforms and public projects.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, Networks and Distributed Systems, BS Computer Science, Networks and Distributed Systems at University of the Philippines
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
rails10
ruby10
graph-visualization10
minitest10
ruby-on-rails10
react10
command-line-interface9
apim9
command-line9
front-end-development9
api9
cli9
refactoring8
typescripts8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/website
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
The codebase for Exercism's website.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:516 reviews, 384 commits, 493 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Karlo primarily contributed to the codebase by converting snake_case API data to camelCase, modifying and optimizing existing Ruby on Rails controllers and JavaScript hooks. They were also involved in refactoring React components and refactoring JavaScript code. Their work touched on the structure and styling, indicating a focus on improving the codebase's functionality.
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exercism/website-copy
Sep 2017 - Sep 2021
A repository for exercism's website's copy
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 34 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Karlo's commits primarily focused on enhancing the exercism website copy project. They implemented a `rake graph` command for generating a visual representation of the project's structure and dependencies. The user modified files related to building the graph and its associated tests, integrating and testing a Ruby-based graph visualization tool. They also added and updated walkthrough content.
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