Oriol Torras
Lead Principal Frontend Engineer at Backbase
Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolOriol 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
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Catalan, Spanish, English
Github Skills (21)
las9
reference-implementation8
nodejs-api7
backbase7
angular6
nodejs6
api6
typescript5
javascript5
synchronized1
css1
webpages1
styles1
to-do1
candidate1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JavascriptIO/Node.js
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Repositorio con las charlas y ejemplos de los #jsIO sobre Buenas prácticas en Javascript
Contributions:8 commits in 1 month
repositorioconjavascriptlaslos
otorras/bg-hoard
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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