Raimon Grau
Senior Software Engineer at Metabase
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRaimon Grau is a senior software engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building and operating backend systems, especially in Clojure, Lua/OpenResty, Ruby, and various Lisps. He has led teams and shipped enterprise features at Kong while maintaining open-source projects and contributor-grade work on notable repos like Metabase and remacs (porting Emacs Lisp to Rust). At Metabase he designs SaaS provisioning, ETL and billing subsystems and drove a migration from AWS ECS to Kubernetes while implementing SOC2 controls. A longtime Emacs and programming-languages enthusiast who’s blogged since 2007, he thrives on learning new languages (Clojure and Rust are current bets) and solving algorithmic and AI-focused backend challenges. Based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he prefers remote roles but enjoys in-person collaboration when possible.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUniversidad de La LagunaEngineer, Computer science, Engineer, Computer science at Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona
English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (50)
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algorithms10
docker10
javascript10
postgresql10
clojure-cli10
expressions10
compiler-development10
testing10
bash10
editor10
dockers10
data-structure10
cicd10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong
Mar 2018 - Nov 2020
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Raimon contributed to the Kong API Gateway project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to backend logic. They made changes to core modules like `dao` and `utils`, and added a TTL index for sessions. Moreover, the user fixed flaky tests related to plugins, which involved modifying testing code and addressing timing issues. Their contributions also included the refinement of existing test suites for AWS-Lambda, TCP-Log, and UDP-Log plugins.
api-gatewaynginxkong-pluginserverlessload-balancing
Kong/docker-kong
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
:monkey: Docker distribution for Kong
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 10 commits, 21 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Raimon primarily contributed to the Docker-Kong repository by modifying the `bintray-release.sh` script. Their work involved adding features to accommodate Kong Enterprise builds, including environment variables for ports and custom build configurations. Furthermore, the user added features for bundling files into the image, adding beta destinations, and also correcting minor issues with filepaths, which were integral to the continuous integration and deployment process for building Docker images. Their contributions appear focused on the release process and build configurations for Kong's Docker distribution.
monkeydocker-distributiondockerdocker-composekong
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