Rubén Durán
Senior Platform Engineer
Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRubén Durán is a Senior Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience building backend systems for startups and multinational teams, currently driving platform work at Fresco. Trained as a Computer Engineer at the University of Zaragoza, he has a broad language background from Perl and C++ to Python and is actively upskilling in Java and Spring. His open-source contributions include substantive backend improvements to the Zentyal Linux Small Business Server and the TACTIC collaboration platform, demonstrating practical experience with network services, logging, email handling and queue management. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs steady backend expertise with a willingness to tackle frontend needs and a long-standing commitment to GNU/Linux and FOSS. Outside work he stays physically active—bouldering and inline skating—and enjoys travel and film, reflecting a balance of technical focus and curiosity.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería Informática Computer Engineering, Ingeniería Informática Computer Engineering at Universidad de Zaragoza
Spanish, English, French, German
Github Skills (20)
python10
workflow-engine10
perl10
queuing10
e-mail10
mailer10
workflow-automation10
task-queue10
emailjs10
queue10
admin9
administrator9
linux9
net9
network9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zentyal/zentyal
Feb 2012 - Apr 2014
Linux Small Business Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:291 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rubén primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Zentyal Linux Small Business Server. Their contributions included adding features to the network diagnostic tools, such as WakeOnLan, and improving the event logging system, which involved creating a new log file and enhancing the readability of the logs. They also added support for the PPTP and IPsec modules, by adding loghelper support. Furthermore, the user improved the overall system by fixing indentation issues, renaming diagnostic tools, and adding per-client configuration.
self-hostinglinuxfail2bansmall-business
Southpaw-TACTIC/TACTIC
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Open source remote collaboration platform used for configuring and deploying enterprise Workflow solutions.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rubén primarily focused on improving the backend functionality related to email handling and queue management within the Tactic platform. Their work included refining the detection of HTML subtypes in emails, leading to improved email processing. They also made changes to configure and use queue parameters and setting the queue type when running `monitor.py`, likely to optimize task scheduling and background processes. The user also addressed locale handling to improve the reliability of the platform.
workflow-automationweb-platformvfxdeployingenterprise
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