Xavier Salas
Principal Software Engineer at Qorvo, Inc.
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolXavier Salas is a Principal Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 11 years of experience building and leading teams across web, embedded, mobile, game, big data and distributed AI systems. He has driven high-impact projects at Amazon—co-leading a multi-year confidential digital subscriptions initiative that materially increased revenue and modernized integration services—and now leads architecture and delivery at Qorvo. A pragmatic full-stack engineer and manager, he combines hands-on implementation (from embedded firmware to cloud microservices) with mentoring and process leadership, having coached multiple engineers to promotions. He contributes to prominent open-source Scala projects, improving core collection performance and scaladoc parsing in scala/scala and scalameta, demonstrating depth in language-level tooling and performance optimization. Xavier’s background as a founder and research engineer gives him an unusual blend of product intuition and research-driven engineering rigor. He holds a B.Eng. and a Master’s in Advanced Computing from UPC and thrives on translating complex technical problems into scalable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, English, Catalan
Github Skills (22)
parserator10
parser10
pretty-print10
scala10
syn10
syntax10
metaprogramming10
scalajs10
scala-compiler10
functional-programming10
functional-programming-language10
testing9
performance-monitor9
performance-analytics9
performance-measurement9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
scalameta/scalameta
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Library to read, analyze, transform and generate Scala programs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 14 PRs, 131 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily contributed to the `scalameta/scalameta` repository by modifying the pretty-printing functionality for Scala code, specifically addressing the display of number literal suffixes. They added support for literal types, implemented a parser for Scaladoc comments, and fixed incorrect unquotation of the type lambda trick. Additionally, the user worked on adding support for trait parameters and level-based heading for the scaladoc parser.
functional-programmingtransformmetaprogrammingsemanticdbsyntactic
scala/scala
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Scala 2 compiler and standard library. Scala 2 bugs at https://github.com/scala/bug; Scala 3 at https://github.com/scala/scala3
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Xavier focused on implementing and optimizing the `distinct` operation for various Scala collection types, including iterators, sequences, and strict collections. They refactored and optimized the `distinct` implementation, improving its performance and ensuring its proper integration with the library's architecture. The user's contributions involved changes across multiple files, including core collection traits and benchmarks, demonstrating a thorough understanding of the Scala collection library. The work included adding new benchmarks, as well as updating and extending the available tests.
functional-programmingobject-oriented-programmingscala-libraryscala-programming-languagestandard-library
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