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Experience
- CarrefourSenior Backend Engineer — PlatformE-COMMERCEOctober 2025 - April 2026 (6 months)Madrid, SpainCore backend contributor on a global retail platform running on GCP, building the services that underpin millions of daily transactions.→ Designed and implemented high-throughput REST microservices in Node.js/TypeScript deployed on GCP Cloud Run; defined API contracts and versioning strategies adopted across all platform teams.→ Built real-time inventory event pipelines using GCP Pub/Sub and Cloud Functions; reduced inventory sync latency from minutes to under 5 seconds.→ Implemented backend AI integrations (GCP AI Platform + Python) for supply chain anomaly detection; shipped from prototype to production in 6 weeks.→ Applied FinOps backend optimisations — query caching with Redis, connection pooling, and autoscaling policies — cuting GCP costs by 20%.
- Nextlane (formerly Imaweb)Senior Backend Engineer — Platform CoreAUTOMOBILEMarch 2022 - October 2025 (3 years and 7 months)Madrid, SpainDeep backend specialist responsible for the most complex and performance sensitive parts of a multi-tenant automotive SaaS platform.→ Diagnosed and resolved critical production issues: race conditions in distributed transactions, N+1 query explosions, connection pool exhaustion under peak load — each traced to root cause at the architecture level.→ Refactored core service boundaries to eliminate tight coupling; implemented event-driven communication between services, improving resilience and reducing cascading failure incidents by 35%.→ Introduced structured observability (distributed tracing, structured logging, SLO-based alerting) across backend services using OpenTelemetry.
- Freelance — Startups &SME ConsultingSenior Full-Stack Engineer (Backend Focused)January 2007 - Today (19 years and 7 months)Primary backend engineer for multiple concurrent projects — sole owner of server-side architecture, data modelling, API design, and cloud infra.→ Multi-tenant SaaS backends: Designed and coded data isolation strategies, subscription billing integrations, and role-based access control systems from scratch in Symfony and Node.js working on Cloud infrastructure.→ Third-party API orchestration: Built robust integration layers for payment gateways, SMS/email providers, and ERP systems with retry logic, circuit breakers, and idempotency guarantees.→ Database design: Modelled complex relational schemas (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and document stores (MongoDB); implemented migration strategies for live systems without downtime.
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Education
- Data Science &AI withPlatzi2023Data Science &AI with
- Technical Engineering in Computer ScienceUniversidad Carlos III2008Technical Engineering in