Miguel Balparda
Staff Product Manager at Bold Commerce
United States
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Top SchoolMiguel Balparda is a senior product leader with 12 years of experience bridging hands-on engineering and product strategy across e-commerce and cloud platforms. Currently a Staff/Sr. Product Manager at Bold Commerce, he has a strong Magento/Adobe Commerce background from technical and product roles at Nexcess and multiple agencies, and has led teams as a Software Development Manager. He pairs deep backend expertise—contributions to the popular nexcess/magento-turpentine Varnish extension around session and ESI handling—with practical cloud architecture and sysadmin experience. Miguel’s career spans B2B product work for FedEx Office to composable commerce initiatives, showing an ability to translate operational constraints into scalable product solutions. A full-time traveler per his GitHub bio, he brings global perspective and adaptability to distributed teams.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Goethe Schule RosarioSystem Engineer - In process, System Engineer - In process at UTN - Universidad Tecnologica Nacional RosarioSystem Engineer - In process, System Engineer - In process at UCEL - Universidad del Centro Latinoamericano
Spanish, English, German, Italian
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Github Skills (12)
caching10
php10
backend10
varnish10
back-end-development10
magento10
content-management-system6
envelope6
vagrant6
translation6
echo6
ansible6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nexcess/magento-turpentine
Jun 2015 - Jan 2019
A Varnish extension for Magento.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 171 commits, 215 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the back-end of the Magento Turpentine extension, focusing on core session management and ESI (Edge Side Include) functionality. They implemented and fixed code related to form key handling, which is crucial for security and ESI caching. The user also addressed merge conflicts and added new features, updating the extension's code to a new version.
magentovarnishphpmagento-modulemagento-extension
miguelbalparda/carpoolear_vm
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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