Xavier Cano
CTO at MarsBased
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolXavier Cano is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO of MarsBased in Barcelona, with 12 years of hands-on experience building web and enterprise software. He has grown a 20-person team and delivered over 100 projects across conceptualization, design and development for both local and international clients. His technical roots span Java and Ruby on Rails, with early work in metadata standards (OAI, MARC, DublinCore) and institutional software, giving him a strong foundation in data interoperability and domain-focused systems. Xavier combines strategic product thinking with day-to-day engineering leadership, often stepping into code and architecture reviews himself. Based in Catalonia, he balances startup agility with the processes needed to scale services reliably. An engineer-founder who still contributes actively to his firm’s technical direction, he brings a pragmatic, standards-aware approach to building maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Inginiería Informática, Inginiería Informática at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Spanish, Catalan, English
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Github Skills (28)
democracy9
collective-intelligence7
census7
ruby-on-rails7
csv6
rails6
ruby6
java5
saas5
typescript4
authorization4
cpp4
phrases3
react3
programming-language3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MarsBased/decidim-file_authorization_handler
Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
Add census authorization to Decidim platform via CSV uploads
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years
csvauthorizationsaascensusdecidim
jgomiz/participa-rubi
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
Participa Rubí - Implementation of the Decidim platform for l'Ajuntament de Rubí
Contributions:22 PRs, 50 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 1 month
rubdecidimparticipa
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