Carlos Abalde
CTO at Allenta
A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
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Top SchoolCarlos Abalde is a pragmatic CTO and seasoned backend engineer with over two decades of experience designing scalable, efficient, highly available systems for high-traffic services and enterprise customers. He moved from academia to industry after building distributed systems and Erlang/OTP expertise at the University of A Coruña, then helped operate massive messaging and media backends at Tuenti before founding R&D-focused ventures. At Allenta he leads engineering and R&D, delivering C- and Go-powered performance solutions—paywalling, traffic prioritization, Varnish extensions and a rock-solid GELF proxy—used by major media and e-commerce platforms worldwide. He prefers solving hard infrastructure problems to fiddling with UIs, and his toolset spans C, Go, Python, VCL and systems monitoring integrations. Comfortable both shipping production code and mentoring small teams, he treats client projects like internal products, emphasizing simplicity, performance and minimal BS. Despite a low opinion of social feeds, he maintains a public professional CV to showcase a rare blend of academic rigor and hands-on production engineering.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master thesis Computer science, Master thesis Computer science at Universidade da Coruña
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Github Skills (122)
reverse-proxy10
redis-sentinel10
http10
vcl10
lua10
monitoring10
javascript10
jquery10
docker-compose10
duktape10
select210
varnish10
golang10
high-performance10
json10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
carlosabalde/mobiledetect2vcl
Jul 2014 - Jul 2020
Python script to transform the Mobile Detect JSON database into an UA-based mobile detection VCL subroutine easily integrable in any Varnish Cache configuration
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 1 month
json-databasemobilepythonvarnishvcl
allenta/zabbix-template-for-varnish-cache
Oct 2015 - Jan 2023
Zabbix template + script useful to monitor Varnish Enterprise instances
Contributions:123 commits, 25 PRs, 191 pushes in 7 years 3 months
varnishzabbixzabbix-templatesvarnish-cache
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