Alvaro Salazar
Senior Data Platform Engineering Manager
Trespaderne, Castilla and Leon, Spain
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlvaro Salazar is a seasoned technology leader and Senior Data Platform Engineering Manager with over a decade of experience building and scaling global engineering organizations and platforms. He has led teams up to 70 people across startups and large enterprises, driving measurable improvements in efficiency, cost savings, and system performance—most recently achieving double-digit infrastructure and security gains as Frenetic CTO. Alvaro blends hands-on architecture and payments experience from roles at StubHub/eBay and Ticketbis with executive-level strategy from VP and director positions, making him equally comfortable in code reviews or boardroom discussions. He’s known for scaling teams rapidly while fostering mentorship-driven cultures and for translating complex technical trade-offs into pragmatic business outcomes. Based in Spain, he combines practical cloud-first modernization experience with a track record of delivering mission-critical, multi-region systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Zero To Mastery AcademySan Luis
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
45reputation
659reached
0answers
2questions
Github Skills (62)
grails-plugin9
currency-exchange9
grav-plugin9
dojo8
plugin8
currency8
payment8
aurora7
exchange7
database-management6
spock6
grails6
groovy6
java6
migration6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
xala3pa/TB-Coding-Dojo
Feb 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 8 months
refactoringdojokata
xala3pa/ConsoleTwitter
Jun 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.