Ricard Clau
Founder & Product Lead at Rigor Forge
Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRicard Clau is a pragmatic founder and product lead with 14 years of experience designing and operating scalable web and infrastructure systems across startups and high-growth companies. He builds privacy-first products and tooling — from leading cloud migrations and DevOps transformations as Holaluz CTO to founding Rigor Forge, which delivers on-premises AI so customer data never leaves their infrastructure. As founder of Kidflow he’s translating deep operational empathy into a coparenting app that reduces post-divorce friction with structured workflows and AI-assisted communication. A hands-on engineer and organizer, he created the ansistrano project, contributes to notable open-source work including Packer testing, and helps run developer conferences in Barcelona. His background spans backend engineering, CI/CD, observability and automation, with a track record of cutting costs and shipping reliable systems at scale. Notably, he combines product leadership with low-level operational rigor—building both the roadmap and the automation that makes it sustainable.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, French, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
javascript10
data-conversion10
testing10
amazon-dynamodb10
php10
packer10
go10
dynamodb10
silex10
csv10
swiftmailer10
test-automation10
json9
ansible9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Mar 2016 - Jan 2020
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ricard focused on improving the testing infrastructure within the Packer project. They added functional tests for Ansible provisioners, ensuring proper error handling. Further, they extended testing coverage by adding tests that validate the functionality of floppies in various builders (Virtualbox, Parallels, QEMU). Finally, the user corrected a typo in the help text for a specific command within the Ansible integration.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
edasque/DynamoDBtoCSV
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Dump DynamoDB data into a CSV file
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ricard primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the DynamoDB to CSV export tool. They implemented features to handle various data types within DynamoDB, including string escaping, nested map structures, Java Lists, boolean fields, and numeric sets. Their contributions expanded the tool's ability to accurately represent and convert DynamoDB data into CSV format, improving its usability and supporting a wider range of DynamoDB data structures.
csvamazon-dynamodbdynamodbawsdump
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