Carlos Alonso is a founder and senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable backend and data systems, currently focused on databases at MongoDB and formerly on storage and durability for RDS at AWS. He has led cross-functional teams to deliver production ML-driven data solutions at Amazon that improved conversion and has rebuilt event-driven, highly available data platforms at Cabify. A seasoned mentor and part-time associate professor at IE Business School, he combines hands-on engineering with teaching and community contributions to OSS and OpenData. Comfortable across the stack from Ruby/Rails to Cassandra, Kafka, BigQuery and cloud-native tooling, he has a knack for simplifying complex systems to practical, reliable designs. Based in Madrid and holder of a Master’s in Computer Science from Salamanca, he’s equally passionate about improving developer productivity—having driven build-stability and automation initiatives that saved engineering hours at scale.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at Universidad de Salamanca
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
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