Manel Clos
VP Of Engineering at fundcraft
Greater Girona Area Spain
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Top SchoolManel Clos is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience guiding teams across local government, startups, and his own companies from the Greater Girona Area. He blends hands-on Django full‑stack development—contributing to notable open-source projects like django-import-export and jazzband/django-smart-selects—with executive roles including VP of Engineering and CTO. His background in GIS and PostGIS, plus a UNIGIS master's, gives him deep domain expertise in spatial systems and cartography servers alongside cloud and backend architectures. Manel is comfortable shifting between code, product direction, and operations, having rebuilt admin workflows, added timezone-aware datetime logic, and modernized test suites. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often surfaces small UX improvements (e.g., conditional format selectors) that improve developer and user experience.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UNIGIS Girona Professional Master in GIS Management Geographic information systems, UNIGIS Girona Professional Master in GIS Management Geographic information systems at Universitat de Girona
python
Stackoverflow
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amazon-web-services
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django-rest-framework
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Github Skills (20)
pytest10
python10
django10
testing10
documentation10
javascript9
amazon-web-services9
django-rest-framework9
csv9
json7
xls7
html6
psql6
google-chrome6
vue6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-smart-selects
Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
chained and grouped selects for django forms
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 25 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Manel contributed significantly to the Django-based project, implementing features and improvements across multiple areas. They updated the project's documentation, added support for testing with pytest, and ensured compatibility with various Django versions. The user also made changes to both the frontend and backend, particularly in the form of javascript and python changes that improved the user experience of the application.
pythondjangoajaxdjango-admindjango-forms
django-import-export/django-import-export
Mar 2015 - May 2022
Django application and library for importing and exporting data with admin integration.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 47 commits, 57 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Manel primarily contributed to the Django-based back-end logic of the project. Their work included fixing bugs, updating the admin interface to work with newer Django versions, and enhancing documentation. They also made changes to the code to improve the functionality, like making datetimes timezone aware, and to the user interface, such as showing the formats selector only when export action is selected.
csvxlspythonadmindjango
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