Gerardo Lastra
Senior Software Engineer at GoodNotes
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolGerardo Lastra is a Senior Software Engineer based in Madrid with 11 years of experience building scalable, low-latency backend systems and data products. He has led teams and owned global technical offerings—most recently driving Location Insights at Vodafone Business and now contributing to product engineering at GoodNotes—bridging data science, real-time processing and production software. His background includes designing distributed architectures, real-time analytics engines and modular big-data pipelines at companies like Darwinex and Vodafone, and earlier work at CERN and Xplain demonstrates strong foundations in robust, mission-critical systems. Gerardo also lectures on data science and has research experience in machine learning, a combination that helps him translate advanced algorithms into reliable, monetizable products. An often-overlooked strength is his track record introducing engineering discipline—CI, code review culture and automated testing—across teams to improve long-term reliability and velocity.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BEng in Computer Science (Ingeniero Técnico en Informática de Sistemas), BEng in Computer Science (Ingeniero Técnico en Informática de Sistemas) at University of Oviedo
English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
alto7
type-conversion6
logic6
casting6
wake-on-lan6
logical-operators6
grails6
corona6
spring6
groovy6
java6
svn6
vlan5
knife4
cisco4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zepryspet/gozscaler
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 78 PRs in 7 months
zepryspet/GoPAN
Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
swiss knife to work with palo alto networks firewalls using Golang.
Contributions:1 PR, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
golangpalo-altoaltosecurityknife
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