Alex Larrañaga
Senior Software Engineer at Vizzuality
Azpeitia, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Larrañaga is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable backend and data-driven systems, currently leading engineering at Vizzuality to tackle environmental challenges like climate change and biodiversity. He drives architectural decisions, promotes engineering best practices such as automated testing and continuous delivery, and delivers fast backend services using TypeScript, Python, NestJS, FastAPI, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and cloud-native tooling. His background spans QA, DevOps and full-stack development, giving him a pragmatic focus on quality, reliability and observability across the stack. Alex pairs a formal grounding in AI and deep learning with hands-on experience in data engineering and infrastructure provisioning (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform). Outside work he’s an avid backpacker, electric-guitar player and Muay Thai practitioner, bringing the discipline and curiosity from those pursuits into team leadership and problem solving. Based in the Basque Country, he contributes to open-source practices and favors self-managed teams that ship impactful, well-tested software.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
ISTQB Foundation Level Ingeniería de software, ISTQB Foundation Level Ingeniería de software at ISTQB CERTIFICATION INSTITUTEMaster's degree Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning at Universidad de AlcaláEngineering Informática, Engineering Informática at Uni Eibar / ErmuaIELTS Global, IELTS Global at EnglishScore
Basque, Spanish, English
Github Skills (28)
docker10
terraform10
aws10
artifact8
cloud-platform7
blockchain7
monorepo6
spring-boot6
python6
java6
coder5
artifacts5
spring5
json4
swagger4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Vizzuality/tnc-blue-carbon-cost-tool
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Blue Carbon Cost Tool
Contributions:1 release, 81 reviews, 178 PRs in 6 months
Vizzuality/4-growth
May 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 release, 131 reviews, 112 PRs in 6 months
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