Alfonso Álvarez
Senior Software Engineer at loveholidays
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlfonso Álvarez is a senior software engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering resilient, high-performance systems across Java, JavaScript and Golang. He has driven cloud-native and networking initiatives at Form3—building a multi-cloud Envoy-based proxy and optimizing DNS, TLS and gateway infrastructure across AWS, GCP and Azure—while maintaining low-latency backends that handle sustained traffic with strict SLAs. His background spans fintech, enterprise banking modernization, and consumer travel tech, combining architecture, on-call reliability, and incident rehearsals with strong mentorship and RFC discipline. Comfortable from low-level networking to full-stack mobile and web apps, he also has a track record of pragmatic tooling and automation (Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD). Based in Southampton, he brings a blend of deep systems thinking and continual learning, often tackling non-obvious network and performance bottlenecks that unlock measurable production improvements.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad del Salvador
Stackoverflow
1reputation
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Github Skills (31)
code-completion10
emacs-lisp10
vim10
emacs10
ctags10
emacs-lsp9
melpa9
code-navigation9
refactoring9
developer-tools8
code-analysis8
spacemacs8
camera7
data-structures6
scanning6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ponchoalv/emacs
Nov 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
ponchoalv/servicios-pdf
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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