Manuel Valle
Co-Founder - Engineering Director at Aroma Italiano Eco Design
Costa Rica
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Valle is an engineering director and serial founder with over 25 years of experience in technical consulting, process analysis and passive systems design, currently leading product and engineering at Aroma Italiano Eco Design from Costa Rica. He combines deep software and systems expertise—illustrated by backend contributions to the popular NodeBB open-source forum—with a long history of building bespoke planning, access control and e-democracy platforms. As CIO and commissioner on national open data initiatives, he blends public-sector civic technology with commercial project and knowledge management skills. Manuel’s career spans founding and scaling multiple companies since the early 1990s, pairing hands-on development with strategic leadership and a practical focus on construction process optimization. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between low-level firmware/embedded work and high-level process design, making him equally at home in code refactors and organizational transformation.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of BolognaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Collegio San LuigiCiencias de la computación, Ciencias de la computación at Università di Pisa
Spanish, Italian, English
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
nodejs10
forum10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
redis8
postgresql8
websocket7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NodeBB/NodeBB
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 25 PRs, 9 comments in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily focused on improving the NodeBB forum software's backend functionality. They addressed issues related to global variables and module dependencies by refactoring code to use require.js modules and translator modules. They also implemented a new method in a related image processing library and extended topic functionality with new hooks and addressing routing errors. Finally, the user updated and fixed categories privileges.
rediswebsocketssocket-ionodebbnode-js
manolino/NodeBB
May 2015 - Aug 2022
Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
Contributions:10 PRs, 28 pushes, 10 branches in 7 years 4 months
node-jsforumnodejsmodern-webforum-software
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