Mariano Vallés
Principal Backend Engineer at Wooga
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolMariano Vallés is a Lead Principal Backend Engineer based in Barcelona with 14 years building high-traffic backend systems and a recent strong focus on Elixir/Phoenix running on Kubernetes and AWS. He blends hands-on engineering—having worked in Ruby, Python, Erlang, Scala and even Rust—with multi-year people management experience, favoring communication, autonomy and measurable product impact. Mariano has shipped services for million-DAU games, integrated partner-facing APIs at Eventbrite, and re-implemented libraries to simplify deployments, showing a pragmatic balance of engineering depth and production ownership. His academic background in distributed computing underpins work on storage and stream-processing systems dating back to research internships. Colleagues know him as an engineer who “runs what he codes” and who progressively moved from individual contributor work to leading technical and people initiatives.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Distributed Computing, Master of Science (MSc) Distributed Computing at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaEngineer's degree Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Engineering at Universidad de Mendoza
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (153)
netsuite10
openid10
api9
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api-client9
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authentication9
ruby9
mvc9
oauth2-proxy9
meck9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mrnovalles/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:31 pushes, 9 branches, 1 issue in 8 years 4 months
wooga/askmeanything
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Woogas' Ask Me Anything Application
Contributions:33 commits, 12 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 1 month
reactdjangoask-me-anythingask-meask
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