Ricardo Álvarez
Head Of Web Development at Waizard
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Álvarez is a Head of Web Development based in Madrid with 11 years of experience building and scaling frontend teams and products. He combines a designer’s eye for refined visuals with engineering rigor, specializing in React and TypeScript while also bringing practical experience migrating large SPAs from Angular.js and working with Vue. Ricardo focuses on autonomy, pragmatic documentation, integration testing, and lean engineering cultures that align product, engineering, and business goals. He has driven measurable improvements—cutting build times dramatically, expanding design system adoption across hundreds of engineers, and improving core web vitals through bundle and tooling optimizations. Comfortable leading tiger teams and cross-functional initiatives, he balances hands-on delivery with strategic tech-stack decisions favoring community-backed tools like TailwindCSS. Collected early experience in IoT research and backend work gives him a T-shaped perspective that helps bridge frontend excellence with system-level trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Front end libraries certification Computer Science, Front end libraries certification Computer Science at freeCodeCampGrado en ingenería de las telecomunicaciones Telemática, Grado en ingenería de las telecomunicaciones Telemática at Universidade de Vigo
English, Galician, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (12)
artifacts9
devcontainer9
modals8
fingerprinting7
react-modal7
fingerprint7
fixture6
react6
async6
typescript4
testing4
javascript2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cubanducko/rest-api-handler
May 2019 - May 2021
A simplified way of handling a REST api (with framework bindings)
Contributions:5 PRs, 65 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
apirestfulsimplifiedhandlingrest
cubanducko/landing-celeste-mur
Feb 2021 - Sep 2023
Landing for Celeste Mür
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 7 months
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