Andrés Ferrer
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
Seville, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolAndrés Ferrer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seville with 11 years building high-throughput, distributed data systems and streaming platforms. He has progressed from engineering and data-tech lead roles to senior backend positions at Telefónica and Spotify, applying Scala, Spark, Kafka and cloud-native practices to real-world production workloads serving millions. As a founder and former CTO, he designed configurable analytics platforms running microservices on Kubernetes, and as a longtime instructor he distills complex big-data topics into practical curricula for engineers. Andrés blends hands-on performance tuning of Spark and JVM services with API and orchestration design, and has experience implementing GDPR-aware data SDKs. He pairs academic grounding in telecommunications and information security with a pragmatic, product-oriented approach to resilient, observable data infrastructure. An educator at heart, he often balances shipping production features with mentoring and creating training modules that accelerate team delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleCloud Computing Specialization - Coursera MOOC Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Specialization - Coursera MOOC Cloud Computing at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, English
Github Skills (80)
python10
hadoop10
scheduling10
mlops10
extensible10
ai-workflows10
dependency-resolution10
streaming10
scale10
ai10
fine-tuning10
golang10
grpc10
database10
druid10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
andresgomezfrr/big-data-md
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
wizzie-io/druid-docker
Nov 2016 - Jan 2019
Druid Docker
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
dockerdruidkubernetes
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