Òscar Vilaplana
Senior Technical Product Manager at Tiqets
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolÒscar Vilaplana is a Technical Product Manager and former senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, distributed web and payment systems across Europe. He has led architecture and backend efforts at companies like Tiqets, SpotMe and Paylogic, designing fault-tolerant, highly available services and automating CI/CD to dramatically reduce downtime and release friction. Equally comfortable in Node.js, Go, Python and React, he combines hands-on engineering with product leadership to ship scalable APIs and event-driven platforms. An active contributor to Django REST Framework, he has improved API introspection and metadata features that aid discoverability and documentation. Based in the Netherlands, he also brings uncommon strengths in technical leadership and creative writing, which inform clear specifications and user-focused product narratives.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at UPC / UOCLeadership skills for architects and other technical leaders, Leadership skills for architects and other technical leaders at High Tech InstituteCreative Writing — Short Fiction, Creative Writing — Short Fiction at Escola d'Escriptura de l'Ateneu Barcelonès
English, Dutch, Catalan, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
api-rest10
rest-api10
api10
rest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
testing9
pdf6
latex6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
encode/django-rest-framework
May 2013 - May 2013
Web APIs for Django. 🎸
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Òscar primarily contributed to enhancing the Django REST Framework, focusing on features related to exposing field metadata for API options. They added functionality to humanize field types and descriptions within the framework. Further contributions included the addition of tests for forms and modifications to the views to incorporate the new metadata. The changes suggest a focus on improving the framework's introspection capabilities and documentation.
djangopythonapirest
grimborg/oscarvilaplana.cat
May 2016 - Nov 2021
Personal website
Contributions:1 PR, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
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