Isa Vilacides
Director Of Ecosystem And Infrastructure at Welltech
Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolIsa Vilacides is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of experience building and scaling teams focused on testing, developer productivity, and secure developer workflows. Currently Director of Ecosystem and Infrastructure at Welltech, he previously led Code Scanning and Copilot Autofix efforts at GitHub, driving adoption and tripling remediation speed through AI-assisted fixes. His career blends deep QA expertise—from selenium-based automation and load testing to cloud-based test execution—with infrastructure and product-facing engineering, having led reliability, billing, and observability initiatives at scale. Known as a tireless perfectionist, Isa has a track record of instituting “shift-left” quality practices, resilient integration testing strategies, and on-call/incident process overhauls that improve reliability without burning out teams. Based in Cádiz, Spain, he combines hands-on technical fluency with people-first hiring and org-building, including launching GitHub’s first EMEA hiring motion. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate low-level testing rigor into measurable business outcomes like increased adoption, faster remediation, and smoother large-customer renewals.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleComputers Engineering, Computers Engineering at ETSII Sevilla
Spanish, English, Swedish
Github Skills (56)
continuous-deployment10
awestruct10
continuous-testing10
selenium10
continuous-integration10
groovy10
testing10
continuous-delivery10
java10
cicd10
automation10
static-site10
jenkins10
devops10
documentation10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vilacides/contractTestingExample
Apr 2018 - Oct 2021
Example of how to do consumer driven contract testing with PACT
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 years 6 months
testingcontractto-dopactcontract-testing
AcmeCB/mvn-test-app
Jul 2017 - Jul 2020
Maven test application
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
javamaven
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