Javier Solares

SRE Tech Lead responsible for driving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across mission-critical airline platforms operating at global scale. Providing technical leadership for SRE practices, defining standards, guiding architectural decisions, and aligning multiple teams toward resilient platform evolution.

Leading initiatives across AWS, Kubernetes, observability, and automation while working closely with global teams and senior stakeholders to enable data-driven and AI-aware engineering.

Key Responsibilities & Impact: - Providing technical leadership for SRE practices across multiple teams and domains - Defining and evolving reliability standards, observability, and operational governance - Driving platform resilience, scalability, and performance across distributed systems - Leading observability improvements using Datadog, enabling proactive detection and faster recovery - Influencing architectural decisions for high availability and scalable systems - Enabling DevOps practices, automation, and infrastructure governance - Supporting AI-driven insights for monitoring, incident analysis, and operational intelligence - Improving platform stability and reducing incident impact through proactive reliability engineering

Technology Environment: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Karpenter, Datadog, Terraform, Kong, Kuma, GitHub Actions, Akamai

Led the definition and execution of the organization’s target architecture, supporting

modernization initiatives, platform transformation, and cloud adoption.

• Designed cloud architectures on AWS and Azure

• Enabled platform interoperability and modernization

• Strengthened governance, scalability, and technology strategy

Led enterprise architecture strategy across a large-scale banking ecosystem, enabling digital transformation, modernization, and scalable financial services platforms across multiple domains.

Key Highlights & Impact: - Designed and led a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) ecosystem enabling scalable and extensible financial services - Architected and delivered PayPal integrations to support digital payments expansion and new revenue channels - Strengthened platform resiliency and availability across core banking systems through architectural improvements and modernization initiatives - Led cloud adoption strategy and migration initiatives, enabling more scalable and flexible platform capabilities - Drove microservices and event-driven architecture adoption across key business domains - Influenced enterprise-wide architectural decisions impacting multiple products and services - Collaborated closely with executive leadership (Directors and senior stakeholders) to align technology strategy with business objectives - Improved platform scalability, reliability, and delivery capabilities across the organization