Marc Sala
Staff Software Engineer at Flanks
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolMarc Sala is a Staff Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 13 years of experience building and operating backend-heavy web platforms. He has progressed from system administration to tech lead and staff roles across startups and scaleups, currently driving engineering at Flanks after senior and lead positions at Elastic Suite, CAPSiDE and others. Marc contributes to notable open-source work like Overleaf’s Git Bridge, improving error handling, logging and file-size safeguards—an indication of his focus on resilient integrations and production reliability. He blends full-stack fluency with operational discipline, mentoring teams to ship robust systems and prevent operational surprises. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that balance developer velocity and long-term maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
FP – MGS Administració de sistemes informàtics, FP – MGS Administració de sistemes informàtics at Institut Jaume BalmesUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Catalan, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
javas10
git10
error-handling10
java10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
sql4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
overleaf/overleaf
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
A web-based collaborative LaTeX editor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily worked on improving the Git Bridge service of the Overleaf project. Their contributions focused on handling various error scenarios, such as 401 and 403 errors, and integrating logic for projects with protected access. They implemented file size limits to prevent large files from being processed, and updated the local version after processing snapshots. Additionally, the user added logging functionality to track actions within the commit process.
latex-editorweb-basedlatexcollaborativeeditor
meis/talks
Mar 2015 - Nov 2019
Talk slides
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
javascriptreacttalk-slides
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