Summary
Gines Molina-Abril is a Data & Decision Engineer and PhD candidate with 10 years of hands-on experience building scalable data platforms and decision-support systems across media, edtech, and fintech. He designs DataOps-driven infrastructures that process tens of terabytes and thousands of daily queries, having delivered multi-million user-scale analytics and cut costs and execution times by orders of magnitude. At Cliqpod he blends academic research on process-centric decision frameworks with product engineering, embedding data governance and actionable AI into operational workflows. He has a track record of standardizing ETL, implementing data catalogs for lineage and observability, and translating complex event streams into high-value metrics for advertisers and product teams. Comfortable across cloud-native tooling (GCP, Airflow, dbt) and analytics stacks, he pairs rigorous research thinking with pragmatic, cost-effective engineering. Based in Pontevedra, Spain, he brings a rare combination of PhD-level inquiry and production-scale delivery.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) in Telematic Engineering Telecommunications, BSc (Hons) in Telematic Engineering Telecommunications at Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Spanish