Alvaro Garcia
Senior Software Engineer at Springer Nature
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlvaro Garcia is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with over two decades of experience designing and operating scalable, high-performance systems for high-traffic environments. He combines deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems, data platforms and cloud-native infrastructure with proven leadership in guiding distributed teams, mentoring engineers and driving technical delivery. His work includes multi-region migrations for large-scale Git hosting, building data platforms for hundreds of thousands of properties, and implementing tax systems that support tens of millions of users, demonstrating a knack for reliability and data integrity at scale. Comfortable in client-facing and consultancy roles, he blends technical strategy with pragmatic execution across Java, Scala, Kubernetes and event-driven architectures. Colleagues benefit from his emphasis on observability, automation and testing practices that reduce latency and operational toil. Based in London and open to remote or contract roles, he brings a rare combination of production-grade engineering, machine-learning-informed repository optimisation, and strong stakeholder communication.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Enginering, Computer Science, Enginering, Computer Science at Ghent UniversityEngeering, Computer Science, Engeering, Computer Science at Universidad de Murcia
scala
Github Skills (23)
derived9
jenkins8
groovy7
streaming7
batch7
api6
google-cloud6
scala6
listings6
beam6
dataflow5
spark4
apache4
kotlin3
apache-beam3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
avilaplana/scala-99
Feb 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:88 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
tvlive/tv-api
Jun 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:58 commits, 103 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 9 months
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