Alan Argelaga is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Barcelona with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructures. He has led global efforts to scale Kubernetes runtimes and IaaS platforms—managing peaks of ~35K req/s and over 14K containers across dozens of teams—while evolving custom distributions for observability, networking and security. His background spans Mesos/Hadoop data platforms, GDPR-compliant data lakes, and hands-on automation from hypervisors to CI/CD, reflecting deep expertise in cloud-native runtime engineering. Comfortable in both leadership and individual-contributor roles, he has repeatedly delivered multi-tenant, production-grade systems for global companies. An Information Technology Systems graduate from UPC, he pairs academic grounding with a practical focus on clustering and distributed network technologies that drive resilient, scalable operations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Erasmus program - Business Information Systems, Erasmus program - Business Information Systems at Leeds Metropolitan University
Contributions:30 commits, 54 PRs, 78 pushes in 11 months
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Alan Argelaga - Site Reliability Engineer at Hopper