Ricardo Velasco
Technical Lead at Feather
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRicardo Velasco is a Technical Lead with a decade of hands-on experience building customer-focused web products, currently shaping Feather Insurance’s platform in Berlin to make insurance simple and honest. He progressed through senior frontend and full-stack roles to lead development of mission-critical features like a Task Engine, Recommendation Tool, and a custom referral system, while contributing to an open-source component library. A former co-founder who built an enterprise real-estate product in Guatemala, Ricardo combines entrepreneurial grit with production-grade engineering. Trained originally in graphic design, he brings a strong accessibility and UX mindset to technical decisions, often bridging design and implementation. He also leverages low-code automations (n8n, Customer.io) to streamline ops-workflows—an indicator of his pragmatic, product-first approach.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Diseño gráfico, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Diseño gráfico at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
seo10
plug9
schema-org9
json-ld9
react8
nextjs7
typescript7
javascript6
unleash6
reporter1
gulp1
notification1
jshint1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
talo242/gatsby-starter-netlify-cms
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
talo242/github-actions-app
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Repo for experimenting with github actions
Contributions:1 release, 9 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 months
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