Summary
Álvaro López is a pragmatic Scala backend developer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining production services across startups and large enterprises, currently contributing to LeadIQ. He excels in functional Scala tooling and ecosystems—Akka, Doobie, Circe, Finatra—and has hands-on experience with REST APIs, test-driven development (ScalaTest/ScalaCheck), Kubernetes/Helm, and observability (Datadog/CloudWatch). Comfortable in Scrum teams, he favors pair programming, code reviews and continuous integration to deliver clean, maintainable code and openly exchange feedback. His background includes blockchain work integrating Ethereum nodes with DSLs and algebraic types, plus data engineering exposure through Airflow DAGs. Outside of code he co-produces a Spanish software-development podcast, reflecting a commitment to community learning and clear technical communication.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
F.P. Grado Medio, Explotación de Sistemas Informáticos, F.P. Grado Medio, Explotación de Sistemas Informáticos at Instituto Juan Bosco
Grado, Ingeniería Informática, Grado, Ingeniería Informática at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
English, Spanish