Summary
David Álvarez is a Staff Software Engineer based in Madrid with 11 years of experience building back-end and big data systems across startups and enterprise clients. He has led architecture and platform decisions at companies like JOOR and Smart Protection, focusing on Python, AWS serverless and container ecosystems, Terraform, and observability tooling. His background spans building scalable crawler platforms, DBaaS abstractions in Go and gRPC, and data pipelines with Spark and Scala for financial analytics, showing comfort across both data and service engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technology choices that balance operational simplicity with scale, and he often bridges hands-on implementation with product-facing decisions. He trained as a computer engineer at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and brings a practical, cross-stack perspective that makes complex distributed systems more maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Grado, Ingeniería informática, Grado, Ingeniería informática at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spanish, English