Christian Melendez
Principal Specialist Solutions Architect & EMEA Lead For Compute at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Madrid, Community of Madrid, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristian Melendez is a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect and EMEA Lead for Compute at AWS with a career that began in software development in 2006 and evolved into cloud and infrastructure leadership. He combines hands-on engineering pedigree with strategic cloud architecture experience across roles at AWS, Equinix and Autoweb, driving compute-focused solutions for large enterprise customers. With 11 years of documented experience in senior cloud and solutions roles and an MBA in Project Management, he bridges technical design, operational excellence, and stakeholder alignment. Christian’s background spans hands-on cloud operations, senior solutions architecture, and people leadership, giving him a practical perspective on migrating and optimizing workloads at scale. Based in Madrid and working across the UK/EMEA region, he’s known for translating deep technical concepts into business outcomes. A subtle differentiator is his progression from developer to regional compute lead, reflecting both technical depth and a talent for scaling teams and solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Project Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Project Management at Universidad Mariano Gálvez
English, Spanish
Github Skills (111)
skaffold10
command-line-interface10
terraform10
gcp10
google-cloud10
karpenter10
kubernetes10
serilog10
spot-instances10
amazon-ec210
amazon10
amazon-eks10
jupyterhub10
aws10
javascript9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/karpenter-blueprints
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Karpenter Blueprints is a list of common workload scenarios following best practices. You'll find here details of why configuring the Karpenter and Kubernetes objects in such a way is important when using Karpenter on EKS.
Contributions:6 releases, 20 reviews, 10 PRs in 1 year 4 months
karpenter
equinix/terraform-equinix-metal-ecs-anywhere
Jun 2021 - May 2023
Run on Equinix Metal your ECS tasks
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 11 months
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