Josep Bigorra

Software Engineer

jjbigorra@gmail.com
+31 639825138
1441KH PurmerendThe Netherlands

Who am I ?

I am a Software Engineer and love what I do. I'm always ready to learn new things and solve problems, I have a DevOps mindset and I love perfecting my skills and taking on challenges.

I moved to the Netherlands in 2019, and I was born in 1996 in Barcelona, Spain.

You could also describe me as a Free Software Advocate, an Emacs user, Guix and Nix enthusiast, Scheme, Lisp, Haskell, Rust, Scala enjoyer, functional programmer, and perfectionist.

Work experience

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Vandebron B.V.
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Software Engineer
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

August 2024 => present

  • Back-end, asynchronous and event-driven services with Scala, ZIO, REST APIs
  • Distributed micro-services, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
  • Kubernetes and Docker, ArgoCD, Helm charts
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ZorgDomein B.V.
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Software Engineer
Breukelen, The Netherlands

April 2023 => July 2024

  • Experience in Scala, REST APIs, distributed microservices, using functional programming.
  • Working with Kafka, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch.
  • Integration testing, black-box testing, testcontainers, unit, E2E testing, security assessment.
  • Python data pipelines with Spark and AWS Glue for a product tagging system.
  • Amazon AWS, EC2, Cloudfront, S3 buckets.
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IKEA - Ingka Digital
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Software Engineer
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

January 2022 => March 2023

  • Experience in Go, Java, Spring Boot and Gradle, Maven.
  • Google Cloud Platform, Pub/Sub, Serverless computing.
  • Kubernetes and Docker, Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • PostgreSQL, BigTable, ElasticSearch, Redis, Firebase.
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Pro Warehouse B.V.
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Full-stack Developer
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

November 2019 => December 2021

  • Experience with Go (standard & Gin) and PHP (Laravel).
  • Database design, normalization, migration, maintenance, and backup.
  • Jenkins Groovy scripted pipelines with unit tests.
  • FreeBSD & Linux server experience, jails and pf Firewall.
  • Introduced Agile working methodology and Extreme Programming.

Education

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Leading Self
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Leadership course
Maarssen, The Netherlands

Summer 2024

  • Took a course on leadership, inter-personal relations and good ways of collaborating and empathizing at the workplace.
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Liderlink Business Solutions
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Back-end Developer internship
Parchal, Portugal

February 2019 => July 2019

  • Experience with PHP and MySQL, CRUD operations, in several real-estate, hotel and personnel management software.
  • Client-side scripting with JavaScript and jQuery in combination with server-side templates.
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Universidade do Algarve
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IT Associate's degree
Faro, Portugal

September 2017 => September 2019

  • Graduated with 190/200 score. Obtained maximum score for software engineering internship.
  • Java, PHP, SQL, Javascript, GNU/Linux, Excel, Alfresco BPM

Driving:

B driver's license, vehicles up to 3,5t

My free time

I like building and tweaking computers, blogging about my tech opinions and discoveries and playing strategy games sometimes.

I love playing classical and electric guitar.

You might also find me doing CrossFit, sanding furniture down, removing weeds from the garden, or improving my house.

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