Fernando Leyva
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Leyva is a senior software engineer and telecommunications-trained architect based in Madrid with over a decade designing full-stack systems and cloud-native platforms. He combines hands-on backend work in Java, Go and Python with front-end expertise in React and Angular, and a strong focus on observability and service mesh technologies like Istio and Kiali. At Red Hat he contributes to Kiali and Istio for OpenShift/Kubernetes, and previously led multi-cloud, Terraform-driven platform automation and large-scale frontend migrations at Accenture. AWS and Azure Solution Architect certifications back his practical DevOps and infrastructure skills, while his background in telecom gives him a systems-oriented view of distributed architectures. Known for turning complex enterprise requirements into reusable platform components, he often bridges developer UX, CI/CD and cloud automation to accelerate delivery.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Erasmus. Telecommunications, Erasmus. Telecommunications at Chalmers tekniska högskola
English, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
service-mesh10
mesh10
kubernetes10
observability10
commons10
integrate10
webpack-plugin10
openshift10
istio10
management10
kiali10
documentation10
console9
webpack9
charts9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ferhoyos/kiali
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
Contributions:8 PRs, 383 pushes, 448 branches in 2 years 1 month
meshkialiobservabilityistiokubernetes
ferhoyos/openshift-servicemesh-plugin
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Webpack Plugin to integrate Kiali into OpenShift Console
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 201 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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