Tomas Buchaillot
Technical Lead at Tyk
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolTomas Buchaillot is a Technical Lead based in Barcelona with eight years of experience building high-throughput backend systems and microservices, primarily in Go. He progressed at Tyk from Go Engineer to Technical Lead, contributing notable improvements to the widely used open-source Tyk API Gateway including enhanced circuit breaking, analytics support, and robust error-handling refactors. Prior to Tyk he implemented performance-optimized services and fraud detection pipelines at MercadoLibre, migrating legacy systems to Go and tuning distributed data stores. A fast learner who pursues practical hands-on projects, he stays current through personal repositories on GitHub and by experimenting with new tools and patterns. Tomas combines strong backend engineering depth with real-world experience in scaling, observability, and API-driven architectures. He’s known for tackling hard challenges and extracting the most value from complex systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer Software Engineering, Software Engineer Software Engineering at Instituto Universitario Aeronáutico
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Github Skills (11)
go10
api-gateway10
redis10
circuit-breaker10
oauth9
testing9
api-management9
microservices8
api8
microservices-application8
reverse-proxy7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TykTechnologies/tyk
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:278 reviews, 170 commits, 172 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tomas made significant contributions to the Tyk API Gateway, focusing on improving its core functionality and stability. Their work included extending the circuit breaker to handle a wider range of errors, optimizing certificate and OAuth client listing, and fixing several test-related issues. Additionally, the user refactored the error-handling mechanisms and introduced changes related to analytics, including support for multiple analytics keys and separate analytics storage.
api-gatewaygrpcreverse-proxyapi-managementcloudnative
TykTechnologies/tyk-sync
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 23 reviews, 51 commits in 2 years 8 months
synctykconfigconfigurationsdotfiles
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