Omar Lopesino
Backend Developer at Metadrop
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Lopesino is a Senior Backend Developer based in Madrid with 11 years of experience designing scalable PHP and Drupal architectures for high-traffic platforms. He builds robust REST and GraphQL APIs, large-scale migrations, CRM integrations (Salesforce, Dynamics 365), and CI/CD pipelines while pairing performance optimization with pragmatic system design. At Metadrop he leads backend development, mentors engineers, and helps steer technical decisions using Docker, Jenkins, Symfony and modern databases. An active open-source contributor, Omar has strengthened PHP clients for GitLab and Jira by adding tests, features and coding-standard fixes, showing a focus on reliability as much as functionality. He’s also a repeat conference speaker (Drupal Mountain 2024; Drupal Dev Days 2019/2023), reflecting a commitment to community and continuous learning. Notably, his work often emphasizes measurable velocity and deployment safety rather than just feature delivery.
11 years of coding experience
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web, Desarrollo de aplicaciones web, Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web, Desarrollo de aplicaciones web at IES Tetuán de las Victorias
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
unit-testing10
gitlab10
php10
api10
jira10
gitlab-api10
apidoc10
api-client10
testing10
json9
phpunit8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lesstif/php-jira-rest-client
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
PHP classes interact Jira with the REST API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 9 months
Contributions summary:Omar focused on extending the functionality of the php-jira-rest-client, specifically integrating agile boards and their related issues. They implemented several classes and methods to interact with the Jira REST API for boards, including retrieving boards, individual board details, and issues associated with a board. The contributions involved modifying existing code and introducing new features, demonstrating a strong understanding of the Jira API structure and PHP implementation. Further commits involved coding standards and bug fixes relating to the integration.
apiphpjirajira-clientinteract
GitLabPHP/Client
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
GitLab API v4 client for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 11 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily focused on adding and improving project tests within the PHP GitLab client. They added tests for project issues, boards, and user retrieval, ensuring the client's functionality. The user also implemented new methods to interact with project issues, boards, and users. Furthermore, they addressed code style issues by applying coding standards, ensuring code quality and maintainability.
api-clientapigitlab-apihttplugphp
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