Albert L
Founder & CEO at KrakenD
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert L is a seasoned founder and CEO with 14 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and developer-facing infrastructure from Barcelona. He co-founded KrakenD, an ultra-fast Go API gateway powering millions of servers monthly, and has a strong open-source track record improving core gateway architecture, logging, and router integrations. Albert pairs hands-on engineering—refactoring dependencies and adding router support—with strategic leadership across startups and large platforms (Softonic, Zinio, Veepee), specializing in scalability, performance, and cloud migrations. He also teaches and advises on high-performance web programming and infrastructure, bringing a blend of academic rigor and pragmatic operational experience. An entrepreneur at heart, he has founded multiple products (including an acquired social tool and a crypto advisory bot) and often focuses on making complex distributed systems easier to maintain and debug.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaDeveloping Innovative Ideas for New Companies, Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies at University of MarylandUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Catalan, Italian, English, German, Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (19)
middleware10
routers10
microservices-application10
router10
go10
api-gateway10
golang10
logging10
microservices10
api-design9
dependency-management9
apim9
mux9
api9
go-gin9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
krakend/krakend-ce
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
KrakenD Community Edition: High-performance, stateless, declarative, API Gateway written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 3 reviews, 64 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Albert focused on refactoring and improving the Krakend Community Edition's codebase, specifically related to logging, and package paths. Their contributions involved upgrading dependencies and making changes to the underlying architecture. Several commits address the renaming of packages related to the Krakend ecosystem, indicating a focus on maintaining the project's structure. The user's commits demonstrate an understanding of the project's architectural components.
api-gatewaygokrakendmicroservicesbackend-services
luraproject/lura
Mar 2017 - May 2022
Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 5 reviews, 31 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the backend of the API gateway, focusing on router implementations and logging enhancements. They added support for the gorilla router, incorporating the necessary dependencies and configurations. The user also added context-aware prefixes to log messages across various router implementations and logging middleware, and made improvements to the gin engine logging configurations. Their work indicates a focus on improving the maintainability and debugging capabilities of the API gateway.
api-gatewaylinuxmicroservicegolangmiddleware
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