Summary
Francisco Barcena is a Senior Software Engineer based in Madrid with 14–15 years of experience building full-stack web applications and distributed systems across Java, .NET Core, and cloud-native stacks. He has led architecture, front-end technical guidance and continuous delivery initiatives, and has hands-on expertise in microservices, AWS (Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, Kinesis), Terraform, and event-sourced designs. Francisco has deep legacy and enterprise platform experience—WebSphere/Portal, JEE portlets and large RDBMS migrations—combined with modern practices like Terraform IaC, DataDog monitoring and CI/CD pipelines. He frequently mentors engineers, runs technical interviews and drives code reviews, blending people leadership with pragmatic implementation. Comfortable in multicultural teams, he’s delivered integrations across heterogeneous provider interfaces (XML/JSON) and built both REST and event-driven services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who constantly seeks faster, higher-quality ways to produce software.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
TOEFL English, TOEFL English at Proulex
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Engineering at Universidad de Guadalajara
English, Spanish