Rafa De La Torre
Sr. Staff Engineer at Netskope
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRafa De La Torre is a Sr. Staff Engineer based in Madrid with 11 years of experience building and architecting large-scale systems across GIS, web development and core networks. He has led platform and core-technology teams at CARTO, driving architecture, simplification and developer-friendly environments, and now shapes security-focused platform engineering at Netskope. Rafa combines deep backend and database expertise (PostGIS, PostgreSQL, Redis) with a strong QA and test-automation background, having sped up and hardened CI/test infrastructures earlier in his career. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Mapnik and Mapbox Vector Tile tooling—adding CI PostGIS setups and nuanced variable handling tests—demonstrating attention to both feature correctness and reproducible testing. Known as a pragmatic problem-solver and internal evangelist, he focuses on reducing complexity while enabling teams to move fast and maintain quality.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Universidad de Granada
Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
c-language10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
redis10
testing10
vector-tiles10
bash10
mapnik10
cicd10
postgis10
sql10
cprogramming-language10
javascript9
system-testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/cartodb
Sep 2014 - Jun 2021
Location Intelligence & Data Visualization tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:130 reviews, 1937 commits, 576 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rafa primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the project, specifically addressing issues related to data import and storage. They made changes to user authentication and data management logic within the application models, as well as modifying data retrieval routines. Additionally, the user was involved in database-related tasks, including adding database constraints, optimizing the use of Redis, and managing migrations and the cartodb-postgresql extension to enable better usage and performance.
visualizationgeospatialgeofencinggeographyh3
mapnik/node-mapnik
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Bindings to mapnik for node.js
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Rafa contributed to the project by implementing features related to passing variables in the MVT processor and adding tests for token replacement in PostGIS queries. They also set up and configured the PostGIS environment for CI tests using Mason, involving the creation of setup, initialization, and run scripts. Additionally, the user addressed a typo in a test file and merged master into a branch related to variable passing.
node-jsnodejsmapnik
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