Pau Alarcón
Senior Software Engineer at Dixa
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolPau Alarcón is a Senior Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 8 years of experience building scalable, event-driven systems and customer-facing platforms using Scala, Spark, Kubernetes and AWS. He has shipped production services across fintech, authentication, and customer support domains—contributing to ingestion frameworks and real-time ML-driven authentication pipelines before leading backend work on omnichannel experiences and AI assistants at Dixa. A pragmatic backend specialist, Pau has deep hands-on experience with streaming, distributed data stores and microservices (Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, gRPC) and has contributed to the well-known Monix reactive library, improving consumer semantics and effect suspension. Comfortable owning end-to-end features, he pairs systems thinking with practical refactoring skills and a history of improving developer ergonomics in complex codebases.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Catalan, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
asynchronous10
cat10
functional-programming10
cats-effect10
reactive-programming10
async10
scala10
top-level9
typer9
reactive-streams9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
monix/monix
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Asynchronous, Reactive Programming for Scala and Scala.js.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Pau contributed to the Monix project, focusing on asynchronous and reactive programming in Scala. Their work included adding new signatures to the `Consumer` companion object and refactoring code related to consumer methods. They also addressed issues related to `ForeachAsyncConsumer`, ensuring correct suspension of effects. Finally, they brought back the transformer functionality and updated copyright headers.
asynchronousfunctional-programmingscalajsreactive-streamsreactive-programming
monix/pawn-shop-playground
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:37 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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