Issel Guberna
Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolIssel Guberna is a seasoned engineering leader based in Barcelona with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling high-traffic, cloud-native platforms. She has a proven track record founding and expanding engineering organizations—from bootstrapping teams and onboarding processes to defining technical vision and migrating monoliths to resilient microservices at companies like Delivery Hero, New Work SE, and Zinio. Comfortable at the intersection of people and architecture, she drives measurable delivery improvements (introducing DORA metrics) while mentoring leads and shaping long-term roadmaps. Technically fluent across Python, Ruby, Kotlin, AWS and modern CI/CD practice, she thrives on performance-sensitive systems and pragmatic reliability. A former CTO who still codes and cares about operational detail, Issel pairs strategic leadership with a penchant for optimizing platforms under real-world traffic constraints.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
licenciatura en informática Ingeniería informática, licenciatura en informática Ingeniería informática at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (32)
natsio8
controller8
messaging7
php7
ups-api6
message-queue6
bundle6
message-bus5
symfony5
api5
bamboo5
mysql4
faunadb4
commerce4
ups4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
octante/MarvelAPIBundle
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:41 commits, 3 PRs, 37 pushes in 28 days
apibundlephpsymfony-bundlemarvel-api
octante/NatsBundle
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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