Summary
Alfonso Muñumer is a Data Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building large-scale Big Data platforms and pipelines, currently helping Proton make privacy-first products like ProtonMail and ProtonDrive data-driven. He specializes in Spark (Scala), Kafka, Airflow and storage solutions such as ClickHouse, Ceph and HBase, with a strong background in Hadoop-era tooling and modern streaming architectures. A long-time Apache contributor and PMC committer for Apache Gora—now an ASF member—he brings deep open-source credibility in in-memory data models and persistence layers. He has led small teams and driven production ETLs and analytics for retail, public sector and adtech use cases, blending JVM expertise (Java/Scala) with functional Scala microservices. Beyond core data systems he has experience across Elastic Stack, frontend tech and even embedded projects (Arduino), reflecting a pragmatic full-stack curiosity. Based in Barcelona, he pairs rigorous platform engineering with a track record of mentoring and evolving Big Data architectures toward scalable, secure solutions.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Basic Grade, 3rd of Middle Grade studies with violín speciality, Basic Grade, 3rd of Middle Grade studies with violín speciality at Conservatorio Oficial de música del Colegio Obradoiro
Technical Engineer in Informatics, Technical Engineer in Informatics at Universidad de A Coruna
Degree in Informatics, Software Engineering, Degree in Informatics, Software Engineering at Universidad de A Coruña
Spanish, Galician, English