Pedro Candel
Software Engineer at Joyent Inc.
Murcia, Region of Murcia, Spain
Summary
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RockstarPedro Candel is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 21 years of experience, currently building production systems at Joyent (Samsung) from Murcia, Spain. He specializes in backend engineering for Node.js and PHP ecosystems, contributing meaningful fixes and stability improvements to well-known open-source projects such as node-ldapjs, restify, and tapjs. Pedro’s work emphasizes robustness—improving error handling, client pooling, test tooling, and code coverage—which has strengthened core networking and testing libraries used in production. Comfortable across CMS internals and REST frameworks, he blends deep debugging skills with pragmatic refactors that reduce runtime errors and clarify logging. A long-tenured engineer at Joyent since 2005, he brings institutional knowledge of scalable server software and a track record of quietly improving developer tooling and reliability.
21 years of coding experience
Spanish
Github Skills (30)
ldap10
javascript10
apidoc10
mysql10
testing10
php10
api10
code-coverage10
error-handling10
rest-api10
nodejs10
server10
test-automation10
back-end-development9
cms9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
restify/node-restify
Dec 2011 - Jul 2017
The future of Node.js REST development
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily contributed to the `restify/node-restify` repository by fixing bugs and making improvements to the code. These changes include fixing typos, addressing issues related to pooling client functionality, and enhancing the full response functionalities. The user also added tests to ensure correct client pooling behavior and improve overall application stability. These contributions centered on the core functionalities of the REST API framework.
apirestifynode-jsexpressnodejs
textpattern/textpattern
Feb 2005 - Oct 2006
A flexible, elegant, fast and easy-to-use content management system written in PHP.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:124 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily focused on improving the Textpattern CMS by addressing bugs and implementing new features. Their contributions included fixing issues related to WordPress imports, URL title generation, and category handling. They also made changes to core files, such as `txp_article.php`, to add functionality.
cmscms-frameworkmanagement-systemphpcmf
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