Ramiro Aparicio
Staff Engineer at Affirm
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolRamiro Aparicio is a Staff Engineer with 15 years of experience building backend platforms, microservices and developer tooling, currently helping scale Kotlin/Spring infrastructure at Affirm out of Madrid. He blends deep hands-on experience across Java, Kotlin, JavaScript and legacy stacks with platform expertise in observability (Micrometer, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), CI/CD and custom Gradle tooling. Ramiro has led teams delivering ATM and fintech-grade systems, pairing people management and presales estimation with day-to-day coding and maintenance. An active open-source contributor, he has optimized performance and memory in the popular RocketMap project and improved UX in ownCloud and jQuery plugins, showing fluency across front-end and back-end concerns. Comfortable across Windows and Linux, multiple VCS and build systems, he brings a pragmatic, full-stack engineering mindset and a track record of turning complex, heterogeneous environments into reliable production systems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Colegio San AgustinBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
jquery10
python10
css10
shared10
performance-optimization10
owncloud10
mysql9
svn9
apidoc9
plugin-development9
front-end-development9
passwords9
api9
file-sharing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
RocketMap/RocketMap
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
🌏 Live visualization of all the pokemon in your area... and more!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 61 PRs, 452 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ramiro primarily focused on optimizing the `rocketmap/rocketmap` repository's performance and memory usage. Their commits involved significant code refactoring, including removing unused code and data, particularly within the `pogom/models.py` and `pogom/search.py` files. The user's contributions also included fixes to gym details and updates to various components. The overall impact of the work led to improved performance and a more efficient codebase.
reactdata-visualizationvisualizationrocketmap
AudithSoftworks/Uniform
Dec 2011 - Dec 2011
A jQuery plugin to make your form controls look how you want them to. Now with HTML-5 attributes!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ramiro primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and appearance of form controls within the "uniform" jQuery plugin. Their work included integrating fixes and features from other contributors. This involved adding HTML5 elements and improving the plugin's ability to handle multiple select elements. The user's modifications primarily focused on manipulating CSS and JavaScript code to implement the desired visual and behavioral changes of form elements.
lookbowerjqueryform-controlsjavascript
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