Mike San Román
Director Of Engineering, Platform & Technology
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolMike San Román is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of web development experience who currently directs Platform & Technology at Buffer while co-founding OTTER. He grew up building web UIs and has evolved into a pragmatic, hands-on director who champions clean code, TDD, and agile delivery across full-stack JavaScript, Ruby, and PHP ecosystems. Mike has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Buffer—from Software Engineer to Director—bringing product-focused technical leadership and a strong bias for productivity and developer experience. A practical polyglot, he favors keeping business logic framework-agnostic and is known for developer tooling preferences like vim and zsh and productivity techniques such as pomodoro. Based in Barcelona, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with deep implementation chops, bridging startup hustle with mature platform thinking.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Github Skills (57)
buffer10
single-page10
ui-components9
atomic-design9
single-page-application9
php-api9
app-shell9
publish9
react9
snapshot-testing9
api8
friend8
facebook8
javascript8
typescript7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bufferapp/sharp
May 2018 - Oct 2022
High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 5 months
image-serverfastestjpegppmapng
bufferapp/buffer-update-converters
Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
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