Marcel Forns
Senior Software Data Engineer
Greater Palma de Mallorca Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolMarcel Forns is a Senior Software Data Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping scalable data collection, processing, serving and visualization tools, currently helping the Wikimedia Foundation turn massive, real-world activity into actionable insights. He blends backend engineering (Python, Ruby, Node.js), cloud and big-data practices (AWS, MapReduce, Redis) with a strong analytics and ETL background honed at Chaordic and earlier NLP and research projects. Comfortable across the full stack and production lifecycle, Marcel pairs rigorous technical craft with a user-centered view of software as a means to create real benefit for people. Unusually for an engineer of his profile, he has hands-on creative and field sales experience from artisan work in Brazil and co-authored academic papers on serious games, reflecting a practical, multidisciplinary curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary Education, Secondary Education at Colegio Alemán de BarcelonaUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, Catalan
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Github Skills (55)
javascript10
mediawiki10
cassandra10
puppet10
wikipedia-api10
dispatcher10
wikimedia10
api10
mirror10
rest-api10
backend10
wikipedia9
foundation9
gerrit9
storage9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/analytics-reportupdater
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:20 commits in 5 years 2 months
marcelrf/karenzathegame
May 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
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