Alex Soto
Sr Principal Developer Advocate
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolAlex Soto is a senior developer advocate and open source leader with 14+ years building Java-first developer experiences and cloud-native tooling from Barcelona. Former Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat and now Sr Principal Developer Advocate at IBM, he blends hands-on engineering with developer relations, authoring/testing-focused books and creating projects like NoSQLUnit. A Java Champion and JSR374 EG member, he contributes to widely used tools and ecosystems—everything from Arquillian and Pact JVM to Jenkins plugins and AsciidoctorJ—bringing rigorous testing and CI/CD practices to microservices. His work spans DevOps automation, Kubernetes/Istio tutorials and test harnesses, evidencing a rare mix of production deployment, test automation and library-level improvements. He also teaches software architecture and development at La Salle, translating industry best practices into graduate coursework. Known for pragmatic engineering, he often surfaces subtle robustness fixes (null protections, encoding and probe configs) that measurably improve reliability in real-world pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering at Universitat Ramon LlullEscola Pia
Spanish, Catalan, English
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Github Skills (53)
asciidoctor10
kubernetes10
docker10
consumer-driven-contracts10
jvm10
selenium10
scripting10
testing10
contract10
selenium-ide10
dockers10
java10
servlet10
ruby10
javas10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-scholars/kubernetes-tutorial
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
Kubernetes Tutorial for https://dn.dev/master
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 39 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to infrastructure and deployment aspects of the Kubernetes tutorial. They added a script for building the Antora documentation site within a Docker container, suggesting an automated build process. Furthermore, the user integrated the Kubernetes topic, and made changes to the helloworld application including the addition of a startup probe, indicating work on application health monitoring within the Kubernetes environment. These changes focus on deployment and monitoring, key aspects of DevOps practices.
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redhat-scholars/istio-tutorial
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Istio Tutorial for https://dn.dev/master
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 219 commits, 84 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the Istio tutorial's infrastructure and deployment processes. They added scripts for cleaning Istio resources, generating documentation, and setting up advanced features like TLS and Istio RBAC. Furthermore, they introduced new examples like dark launch, zero downtime deployments, and traffic management with canary releases using ArgoRollouts, all of which indicate a strong focus on operational aspects of the project.
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