Summary
Antonio Gracia is a seasoned Technological Expert based in Madrid with 11 years focused on NFV/SDN, cloud-native deployments and 4G/5G core platforms within Telefónica’s Corporate CTO Office. He designs and validates complex PoCs across CNFs, Kubernetes, OpenStack and edge infrastructures, blending networking, virtualization and CI/CD practices to move telco systems from research to production. Earlier roles range from laser systems integration and industrial automation to traffic engineering and real-time broadcast software, giving him uncommon cross-domain fluency between hardware, embedded systems and large-scale network orchestration. Known for pragmatic lab-driven validation in Telefonica’s NFV Reference Lab, he frequently bridges product teams and operational groups to de-risk innovations at scale.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Primary and secondary studies, Bachelor, Primary and secondary studies at Ramiro de Maeztu
Master, Telecommunications Engineer, Master, Telecommunications Engineer at ETSITM - UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
English, Spanish, French