Oriol Gual
Senior Staff Engineer at Factorial
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolOriol Gual is a seasoned software leader with 16 years of experience, currently a Senior Staff Engineer at Factorial and previously Engineering Director there after founding and running Codegram for over a decade. Based in Barcelona, he blends hands-on backend expertise—especially in Ruby on Rails infrastructure, testing and configurational work—with strategic leadership across product and engineering teams. He has a track record of driving robust engineering practices in both startups and open-source projects, including contributions to the well-known Decidim participatory democracy framework. Complementing his practical experience, he studied computer science and multimedia and completed postgraduate training in AI with deep learning, signaling a curiosity for applying modern ML techniques to real-world systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who focuses on reliability, testing, and maintainable core architectures.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaBachelor's degree, Multimedia, Bachelor's degree, Multimedia at Escoles Universitàries Gimbernat i Tomàs Cerdà
English, Catalan, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
cicd10
postgresql9
devise9
activerecord9
cucumber6
rspec6
unit-testing6
ios6
validation6
jbuilder6
bdd6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
decidim/decidim
Aug 2016 - Jun 2022
The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 134 reviews, 396 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Oriol's commits primarily focus on setting up and integrating testing frameworks and tools, like Codecov and CodeClimate, for the Ruby on Rails application. They also added a test reporter for CodeClimate. Furthermore, the user made updates to the core and admin modules, fixing rubocop issues and modifying initializers such as Devise and the database configuration. These changes suggest a focus on infrastructure, testing, and core application configuration within the Ruby on Rails framework.
participatory-democracycivic-techgovernmentdemocracyparticipation
codegram/guard-spinach
Nov 2012 - Apr 2015
Guard-spinach is a guard plugin for spinach
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
spinachpluginguard
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