Rafa Casas
Co-Founder at CodelyTV
Castelldefels, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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RockstarRafa Casas is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder of CodelyTV with 13 years of experience building backend systems, developer education, and tooling from Castelldefels, Spain. He has led and implemented production-ready architectures across Java, Scala and PHP—applying DDD, hexagonal architecture and CQRS in popular CodelyTV example repos—while also contributing DevOps-focused automation for developer environments. As an educator and former La Salle instructor, he blends practical teaching with hands-on engineering, having progressed from backend roles to lead engineer at letgo before co-founding CodelyTV. Notably, his open-source work emphasizes clear, testable application structure (monorepos, Spring Boot support, Akka HTTP refactors and Symfony command buses), showing a consistent focus on maintainable architecture and developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (41)
api-rest10
cqrs10
package-management10
api-design10
restful-api10
scripting10
bash10
hexagonal-architecture10
dotfile10
akka10
java10
akka-http10
phpunit10
scala10
javas10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
CodelyTV/java-ddd-example
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
♨️ DDD in Java skeleton & examples. Course:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 92 commits, 78 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rafa contributed significantly to the project by implementing core backend functionality, including the addition of a monorepo structure and Spring Boot support. Their work involved setting up the application's foundational elements, such as logging and custom resource folders, as well as developing a health check endpoint. Further contributions extended to the creation of a course management system using a hexagonal architecture, demonstrating a focus on architectural patterns.
hexagoncucumber-javadddgradlecodelytv
CodelyTV/dotly
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
🌚 Modular and easy to customize dotfiles framework
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 38 reviews, 155 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rafa primarily focused on setting up and configuring the dotfiles framework. They implemented package managers and automated the installation of Zsh. Further contributions involved adding an installer script and setting up symlinks during the installation process, demonstrating expertise in system configuration and automation. The user also modified the theme and updated the theme with branding configurations.
codelytvdotfiles-installdotfilesshellzsh
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