Oriol Blanc
CTO & Co-founder at Permut
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolOriol Blanc is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and shipping mobile-first experiences from Barcelona. Currently CTO and Co-founder at Permut, he combines hands-on coding with strategic product and engineering vision, having served as Engineering Director at Factorial HR and Fractional CTO for early-stage startups. He has deep iOS expertise—contributing to projects like HanekeSwift to improve image caching and compression—and a track record leading mobile engineering at companies such as Fever and Billy Mobile. Oriol’s background spans founding agencies and startups where he translated UX-led product design into scalable technical roadmaps. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who optimizes processes to accelerate delivery without sacrificing code quality. He pairs formal computer engineering training with a founder’s instinct for customer-focused product decisions.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieria Informática Computer Engineering, Ingenieria Informática Computer Engineering at FIB - Facultad de Informática de BarcelonaUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Catalan, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
uiimage10
swift10
ios10
image-compression9
nsstring6
objective-c6
nsobject6
cllocationmanager6
android6
corelocation6
iphone6
cocoa6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Haneke/HanekeSwift
Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
A lightweight generic cache for iOS written in Swift with extra love for images.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:33 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Oriol primarily focused on enhancing the HanekeSwift library, specifically targeting improvements to the memory cache functionality. They added features such as fetching images from the cache with nil keys, and testing equality. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to utilize XCTAssert for testing purposes. They also contributed by adding methods for testing the MemoryCache. Finally, the user added the capacity to compress image data.
cocoapodsgenericswiftioscache
oriolblanc/iOS-OBAdditions
Apr 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:125 commits in 1 year 9 months
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