Marcos Vilches is a founder and CTO with 12 years of experience building full‑stack, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams to deliver scalable selection software. Based in Las Rozas de Madrid, he blends hands‑on backend expertise—evidenced by contributions like the JWT refresh token work for Symfony—with strategic product and architecture leadership. His career spans startups and enterprise environments (Telefónica, Decathlon, Instasent, Widitrade), giving him a pragmatic ability to align technology decisions with business impact. Marcos is passionate about developer experience and security in API authentication flows, and he actively contributes to open source projects that improve real‑world tooling.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones Especialidad en Telemática, Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones Especialidad en Telemática at Universidad de Valladolid
Implements a Refresh Token system over Json Web Tokens in Symfony
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:50 releases, 110 commits, 196 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Marcos primarily focused on implementing and modifying features related to refresh token functionality within a Symfony-based API. Their contributions involved adjusting the refresh token controller, modifying event listeners, and updating routes. They also introduced new entities and commands to manage refresh tokens and their associated data. These changes included setting up token validation, revocation, and overall token management within the API authentication flow.
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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