Rafael Blanes
Head Of Innovation IT Area & Software Quality Solutions Architect
Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Blanes is a senior software engineer and engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on development and more than a decade of managerial experience, currently heading Innovation IT and Software Quality at Cox. He combines deep full-stack expertise in .NET and Node.js with a strong focus on clean code, refactoring, testing, and building observable, maintainable systems for high-performance products. Rafael has led cross-functional teams in international environments across utilities and iGaming, serving as architect, product owner, and director while mentoring engineers through training and 11 technical books. A pragmatic coach who blends soft skills with technical rigor, he drives agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and toolchain excellence across Git, GitLab, Jira, and modern IDEs. Outside core roles he founded MantraJS and contributes technical writing at rafablanes.com, reflecting his passion for sharing practical software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Seville
Github Skills (18)
parser10
svg-path10
node-canvas10
svg9
canvas8
mantra8
mustache8
javascript8
handlebars8
template-engine7
templating7
text-search6
nlp6
persistent6
full-text-search5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gomezbl/gimport
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 18 pushes in 1 month
mantrajsframework/mantrad
Nov 2021 - Sep 2024
Mantra Framework
Contributions:119 pushes, 3 tags, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
phpframeworkmantra
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