Xavier Baqués
Senior Software Engineer at Affirm
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolXavier Baqués is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building and scaling distributed backend systems, currently helping Affirm surface the best merchants and offers through search. He has led engineering teams at StreamSets (through acquisition by IBM), driving Control Hub SaaS performance improvements, job orchestration scalability from 10K to 30K jobs, and features that materially impacted revenue and customer satisfaction. Comfortable shifting between hands-on Java systems work and people leadership, Xavier has shipped multithreaded, DB-optimized services and built key data connectors using technologies like Kafka, Pulsar, Snowflake and AWS. Based in the Barcelona metro area, he pairs a master’s in cybersecurity with practical experience delivering resilient, multi-tenant platforms and even implemented an ANTLR-based compiler for zero-downtime billing policy changes—illustrating a knack for pragmatic automation in production.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Spanish, Catalan, English
Github Skills (36)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
streamsets/control-agent-quickstart
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 10 months
xbcratos/file-builder
Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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