Xavi Roca
Documentation Head
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolXavi Roca is a Documentation Head and former software engineer with 20+ years of experience and a PhD in video and image coding, bringing rare depth at the intersection of multimedia research and developer-facing communication. He has led documentation strategies for blockchain and syndicate ecosystems while previously building and integrating GStreamer codecs, supervising interface projects at Samsung, and managing research programs for EU-funded initiatives. Comfortable switching between hands-on codec development, academic teaching, and large-scale docs design, he excels at turning complex multimedia and protocol details into clear, actionable guides. Colleagues rely on him to define a consistent voice across diverse product teams and keep communities engaged through blogs and tutorials. Based in Barcelona, he pairs academic rigor with product-focused delivery and a knack for mentoring engineering teams into producing maintainable documentation. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to bridge grant-driven research priorities with practical engineering outcomes, ensuring innovations reach production.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (108)
workspace10
security10
flare10
specification10
fabric10
wallet10
static-analysis10
unix10
doc10
api10
financial10
radare210
nem10
documentation10
libc10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
OAI/learn.openapis.org
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
OpenAPI - Getting started, and the specification explained
Contributions:6 reviews, 47 commits, 15 PRs in 1 month
publishingoasworkspaceopenapi31prior
segfaultxavi/galaxies
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:142 pushes, 4 branches, 7 comments in 8 months
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