Alfonso Roa
VP Of Engineering at Habla Computing
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolAlfonso Roa is a VP of Engineering based in Madrid with 12 years of experience designing and delivering data-intensive systems using functional programming principles. He has progressed from researcher and developer roles to leading engineering at Habla Computing, where he previously architected big data solutions and implemented Spark/Scala pipelines with a strong emphasis on functional design and quality. Alfonso combines academic rigor—a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence and a Computer Science degree—with hands-on expertise in stream processing, real-time transformation, and sensor-data prediction projects. He has also coached teams and taught Scala and FP toolkits like Cats/Scalaz and Akka, helping bridge the gap between theory and production. Less obvious: his background includes interdisciplinary research in music clustering and applied work on GALILEO navigation testing, reflecting a curiosity for applying data science across domains.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
ThePowerMBA Program Business Expert - Business Administration and Management, ThePowerMBA Program Business Expert - Business Administration and Management at thePowerMaster's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (76)
utest10
spark-ml10
trino10
lambda-architecture10
architecture10
big-data10
acid10
dependency-free10
presto10
spark10
helper-methods10
columns10
storage10
analytics10
scala10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alfonsorr/doric
Jun 2021 - Feb 2023
Typesafty for spark columns
Contributions:168 commits, 2 PRs, 212 pushes in 1 year 8 months
scalaspark-columnscolumnsspark
hablapps/sparkOptics
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Optics for Spark DataFrames
Contributions:1 release, 53 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 1 month
opticsdataframesspark-dataframesspark-mlspark
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