Gaspar Soria
Senior Data Architect
Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolGaspar Soria is a Senior Data Architect with 12 years of experience designing and evolving large-scale data platforms, currently leading BBVA’s migration to public cloud on AWS. He brings deep hands-on expertise in streaming and big data technologies—Kafka, Spark, Scala, Cassandra—and has contributed meaningful improvements to the Stratio/sparta real-time analytics project, including enhanced Kafka input implementations. Gaspar blends product-focused architecture with implementation oversight, owning ingestion and processing roadmaps and guiding cross-discipline integrations across enterprise platforms. He has led small technical teams and acted as Scrum Master, pairing delivery leadership with code review and best-practice enforcement. Based in Granada, Spain, he combines strong academic credentials in computer engineering with an executive master in innovation, giving him a practical but forward-looking approach to platform modernization. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often surfaces subtle protocol and configuration flexibility improvements that make streaming systems more robust in production.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Master en Innovación, Gestión de la investigación y del desarrollo, Executive Master en Innovación, Gestión de la investigación y del desarrollo at Escuela de Organización IndustrialIngeniero Técnico en Informática de Sistemas, Ingeniero Técnico en Informática de Sistemas at Universidad de Granada
Spanish, English, French
Stackoverflow
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cassandra
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apache-spark
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Github Skills (17)
data-pipelines10
kafka10
spark-streaming10
java10
scala10
javas10
data-pipeline10
cassandra9
apache-spark9
flume8
rdd6
logging6
streaming6
amazon-s36
pyspark6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Stratio/sparta
Oct 2014 - May 2015
Real Time Analytics and Data Pipelines based on Spark Streaming
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 6 months
Contributions summary:Gaspar contributed to the `stratio/sparta` repository by implementing and extending the Kafka input plugin. They added support for various Kafka constructor configurations and incorporated a new `KafkaDirectInput` class. The user modified existing input plugins, such as Flume and Kafka, to improve their flexibility and added new features. Additionally, they updated documentation and included test cases related to these new input implementations.
real-time-analyticsstream-processinganalyticsstreaming-dataspark-sql
gasparms/spark
Feb 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
apachebig-datasparkscalaapache-spark
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