Cristian Sánchez
Director Of Engineering at Grafana Labs
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolCristian Sánchez is a Director of Engineering based in Barcelona with 12 years of software engineering experience and over 6 years leading distributed teams across Europe, the Americas and Australia. He combines hands-on expertise in backend systems (Python, Go, PostgreSQL, Cassandra) and product-focused architecture with a pragmatic Agile leadership style that emphasizes continuous improvement, team culture and transparent business alignment. Cristian has built engineering offices and scaled teams from scratch—most notably creating Chartboost’s Barcelona hub and growing it to 25+ engineers—while mentoring managers and engineers on clean code, XP practices and fit-for-purpose architecture. Comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels, he has driven cross-regional integrations and platform migrations, balancing delivery velocity with long-term quality. A practical believer in DevOps and iterative processes, he avoids dogma and tailors practices to team needs, which helps distributed teams maintain trust and measurable improvement.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (59)
distributed-tracing10
opentracing10
grafana10
backend10
mysql9
dashboard9
visualization9
monitoring9
analytics9
visualize9
api9
prometheus9
api-documentation9
tempo9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cristiangsp/tacty
Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
An extensible command bus for Python
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
pythonbuspython3command-busextensible
cristiangsp/users-api
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Sample API for the "Refactoring a Web Application with Python" workshop
Contributions:28 pushes, 19 branches in 4 months
apipython
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