Rodrigo Álvarez
Ingeniero De Software at Prima
Gijón, Asturias, Spain
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Top SchoolRodrigo Álvarez is a seasoned software engineer from Gijón, Spain with 17 years of experience building robust web applications, primarily in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. He began as a PHP developer and evolved into a strong advocate of agile practices, TDD, shorter feedback loops, and close customer communication. Rodrigo has led teams and projects across startups and consultancies, shipping backend systems, chat integrations, Kafka consumers, and Rails-based platforms while improving code quality and release processes. He contributes to open source (published rubygems and work on locomotiveCMS and other projects) and has recently been shifting focus toward the BEAM ecosystem and microservices with hands-on experiments in Elixir, Go, Docker, React Native and Mithril. Known for blending practical engineering with solid QA habits, he also brings SQL optimization and observability experience from roles involving Sidekiq, Rails Event Store and Datadog. Comfortable both leading and coding, he pairs deep Ruby expertise with a curiosity for distributed systems and language diversity.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
IES Pando
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
2,799reputation
121kreached
14answers
10questions
debugging
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
data-analytics10
visualization10
bonjour10
cms10
programming-language10
ueberauth10
python10
ruby10
docker-compose10
gleam10
compiler10
scalable10
maglev10
erlang10
textinput10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Papipo/jsonmodel
Jul 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 2 years 3 months
Papipo/activesearch
Oct 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:61 commits in 1 year 3 months
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