Álvaro Giménez
Software Architect at LEGÁLITAS
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolÁlvaro Giménez is a Software Architect based in Madrid with 10 years of experience building distributed, reactive systems primarily in the Scala ecosystem. He has led architecture and platform work—designing DDD/CQRS libraries, security infrastructures (OIDC/OAuth2), and time-series DSLs—while operating at scale for millions of weekly users. His background spans backend engineering, technical leadership and scrum mastery, with deep hands-on expertise in Akka, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and functional libraries like Cats and Shapeless. At vidIQ he designed video conferencing and transcription pipelines integrating Whisper.AI and AWS, and more recently he’s driving architecture at LEGÁLITAS. An electronics hobbyist and pianist/composer, he brings a practical tinkerer’s mindset to system design, often turning complex, domain-heavy problems into elegant DSL-driven solutions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero en Informática, Ingeniero en Informática at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Github Skills (54)
keycloak10
saml10
identity10
openid-connect10
authentication10
identity-management10
security10
authorization10
access-management10
calibration9
python8
macros8
machine-learning8
scheduler8
monitor8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alvarogimenez/piano-classroom
Aug 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 66 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 4 months
teachingmusicpianoaudio
alvarogimenez/alvarogimenez.github.io
Jul 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
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