Raúl Hidalgo is a seasoned web-focused software engineer with 15 years of experience building and optimizing large-scale e-learning platforms and public-facing applications from Madrid. He led development and operations for UNED’s aLF platform—one of the largest .LRN deployments worldwide—owning authentication, integrations, web services and performance tuning for hundreds of thousands of users. A pragmatic full-stack developer, he has a track record of reducing duplication, improving maintainability and adding thoughtful UX/backend features, evidenced by contributions to the World Cube Association site. Comfortable across systems administration, Java and AngularJS, he also automates repetitive operations to free teams for higher-value work. Currently programming for Spain’s Congreso de los Diputados, he combines institutional-scale experience with a continuous-learning mindset and a preference for elegant, practical solutions.
15 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Degree computer Science, Degree computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
All of the code that runs on worldcubeassociation.org
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 76 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Raúl contributed to the WCA website by implementing features and improving existing functionalities. They added WCA profile links to team member profiles, enhancing user information. The user also refactored code to avoid duplication and set default values, improving code maintainability and clarity in the application's frontend logic. Furthermore, the user added coverage, and refactored the competitions feature with sorting by announcement date, enhancing both front and back-end functionalities.
[WCA Project] Translations of the the WCA Regulations and Guidelines.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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