Pablo Chao
CTO & Cofounder at Kaleidos
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolPablo Chao is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO of Kaleidos with 14 years of experience building software organizations and products from Madrid. He brings a strong software engineering foundation from Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca and a decade-plus background in FOSS architectures and technical coordination across Entel IT Consulting and Siconet. Hands-on by practice, he contributes to open-source front-end work—most recently improving UI components, decimal support and onboarding tests in Penpot, an influential open-source design tool. Pablo blends product-minded engineering with practical architecture skills, favoring measurable UI and UX improvements that scale across teams. Colleagues know him for turning design-driven ideas into production-ready features while keeping an eye on developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Informático Especialidad en ingeniería del software, Ingeniero Informático Especialidad en ingeniería del software at Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
Github Skills (8)
uid10
front-end-development10
clojurescript10
ui-components10
react9
ui-design9
cypress8
ux-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
penpot/penpot
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:189 reviews, 210 commits, 523 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Pablo primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Penpot project, focusing on UI improvements and new feature implementation. Their commits involved enhancing existing components with decimal support and adding new UI elements like a component for artboard names. The user also contributed to end-to-end tests, specifically creating initial tests for the onboarding slides and drawing basic shapes.
penpotprototypingux-experienceopen-source-designclojurescript
pabloalba/abcirene
Mar 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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