Oscar Guitián is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and seasoned full-stack developer with over 12 years of professional experience and more than 20 years working across gaming, e-commerce, e-learning, and web development. He blends deep backend expertise in PHP, Python, and Go with strong Linux/BSD systems administration, automation (Docker, Ansible), and cloud-native patterns including AWS Lambda and serverless architectures. As a former CTO and long-time freelancer he has built production APIs, EV charging backends in Go, and managed on-prem and AWS infrastructure while guiding teams to adopt CI/CD and IaC best practices. He contributes practical documentation improvements to notable open-source projects like django-cms, reflecting a focus on usability as well as engineering. Based in Lugo, Galicia, he pairs hands-on tool-first craft—nvim, tmux and working from his van—with an emphasis on scalable, maintainable systems. Oscar is motivated by automation and measurable reliability gains, turning operational complexity into repeatable engineering.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
CCNA sistemas cisco routing, CCNA sistemas cisco routing at CISCO Network Academy
Advanced Linux Administration Systems Systems Engineering, Advanced Linux Administration Systems Systems Engineering at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
System Administration Legal Professions and Studies, System Administration Legal Professions and Studies at IE Business School
The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:5 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Oscar primarily focused on improving the project's documentation related to installation and configuration. Their contributions included updating installation instructions for Mac OSX, correcting dependency information, and providing more details about virtual environments. These changes aimed to enhance the clarity and accuracy of the documentation, making it easier for users to set up and use the django-cms project.
Contributions:2 reviews, 79 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 7 months
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Oscar Guitián - Senior Site Reliability Engineer I at Flywire