Lead Engineer @ Rover.com, ReactJS Barcelona Organizer, Speaker · neciudan.dev
I'm a tech lead and staff software engineer with 14+ years of experience, focused on front-end and scaling products. I've worked at Glovo, AdoreMe, and CareerOS. I speak at conferences (React Alicante, React Summit, React Rally, Techorama, Frontmania) and host the Señors @ Scale podcast.
- Database Performance at Scale with Tyler Benfield (Ep. 30) · 58 minutes
🎙️ Tyler traces his path from NASCAR pit stop software at Penske Racing to building Prisma Postgres, covering the ORM anti-patterns that silently kill performance, how connection pooling breaks in serverless, and why SQL is a fundamentally broken language for nested data. Spotify · YouTube - Open Source at Scale with Corbin Crutchley (Ep. 29) · 52 minutes
🎙️ Corbin shares how a 30-minute conversation with Tanner Lindsley turned into leading TanStack Form, why versioning is a social contract not a technical one, and the near-quit moment that changed how he thinks about maintainer wellbeing. Spotify · YouTube - PostCSS, AutoPrefixer & Open Source at Scale with Andrey Sitnik (Ep. 28) · 58 minutes
🎙️ The creator of PostCSS shares how browser discrimination in Russia drove AutoPrefixer, the pledge that forced PostCSS 8 to ship, and why adding 10x more AI agents gives you 10x more coordination problems. Spotify · YouTube - React Server Components at Scale with Aurora Scharff (Ep. 27) · 52 minutes
🎙️ Aurora shares how she learned Angular before JavaScript, built a Boston Dynamics robot controller in React, and why the biggest RSC mistake is not understanding how async/await actually blocks on the server. Spotify · YouTube
- Seven cool JavaScript libraries You should know about Small, focused libraries I found useful. Each has a clear job and a payoff you'll feel in the first use.
- Server-Driven UI in 22 lines of TypeScript Move the layout decision out of the clients and into the API. One JSON contract; every client renders it in its own programming language or framework.
- Astro SEO Checklist 2026: 20 tactics ranked by impact Astro SEO checklist for 2026: 20 tactics ranked from biggest to smallest impact, including canonical URLs, title tag rules, JSON-LD structured data, Person and BreadcrumbList schema, llms.txt, Pagefind search, and a Zod schema that caught 10 bugs in my podcast frontmatter.
- How to make your app agent-ready MCP, OAuth, discovery metadata, robots.txt, Content Signals, Web Bot Auth, x402, UCP, ACP. A walk through what each one is, why it exists, and how to implement the ones your app actually needs.
- JNation · May 26, 2026 — Coimbra, Portugal: Micro Frontends & Me, a Love Story
- CityJS London · Apr 16, 2026 — London, UK: Lizard to Wizard
- React Paris · Mar 26, 2026 — Paris, France: How Not to Use TanStack Query
- Voxxed Days Zurich · Mar 24, 2026 — Zurich, Switzerland: Micro Frontends & Me, a Love Story
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