Summary
Oriol Torras is a Lead Principal Frontend Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and implementing scalable SPAs and MPAs, currently driving frontend architecture at Backbase. He specializes in advanced JavaScript patterns and modern browser behavior, with deep expertise in Angular, TypeScript, RxJS and robust testing using Jest, Jasmine and Playwright. Oriol combines hands-on UI craftsmanship (SCSS, Bootstrap) with backend familiarity (Node.js, PHP, Java, C#) and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS), enabling end-to-end delivery. His career shows steady progression from early PHP and ASP classic work to leading frontend teams and shaping platform-level frontends at enterprise scale. Known for turning messy legacy JavaScript into maintainable MVC and component-based systems, he brings a pragmatic balance of performance, cross-browser polish and test-driven quality. Based in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, he pairs strong system thinking with a history of practical migrations and frontend re-architectures that reduce technical debt.
15 years of coding experience