Alejandro Salguero
Senior Software Engineer (Contract) at Vrbo
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlejandro Salguero is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust, enterprise-grade Scala systems and data pipelines across companies like Vrbo, Sky and Barclays. He specializes in functional programming and reactive architectures, routinely applying Cats, FS2, Akka Streams, Spark and Kafka to deliver scalable, well-tested services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and container platforms. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping hands‑on code, he also runs his own software company and has integrated complex systems including Cassandra, Couchbase, Hive and Airflow. Alejandro’s background in formal functional programming courses from EPFL complements a pragmatic focus on clean, maintainable code and test-driven design, and he’s quietly chosen cross-cutting reliability tools (Datadog, Docker, CI pipelines) as a distinguishing strength.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Principles of Reactive Programming, Computer Programming, Principles of Reactive Programming, Computer Programming at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (45)
relational10
nette10
mapper10
shapeless10
mysql9
postgresql9
scala9
doctrine9
scalajs9
php9
functional-programming9
database9
elastica9
elasticsearch8
scalastyle8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hasumedic/scala-for-the-impatient
Dec 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
hasumedic/insult-sword-fight
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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