Javier Alba
Staff Data Engineer
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJavier Alba is a Staff Data Engineer based in Madrid with over 14 years of focused data engineering experience and 20+ years in software engineering broadly. He leads data engineering teams at Medallia, designing and implementing distributed, serverless data lakes and real-time processing pipelines on AWS with infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes. His background spans enterprise big-data builds (BASF), social data platforms (Audiense), and consultancy-led greenfield architectures across major banks and enterprises, blending hands-on coding in Python/Scala/Java with architectural leadership. He teaches Big Data topics at university level, reflecting a knack for translating complex distributed systems into practical learning. Javier is also fluent in technical recruiting and hiring, routinely shaping teams as well as systems. An often-overlooked strength is his long track record in combining NLP and web-scraping experience with production-scale data architectures, enabling advanced data products from noisy social sources.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Master in Innovation, Executive Master in Innovation at EOI Business SchoolComputer Science Engineering, Computer Science Engineering at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
English
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Github Skills (44)
python9
luigi9
amazon9
amazon-redshift9
dependency-resolution9
batch9
workflow-management8
scheduling8
orchestration-framework8
hadoop8
solrj8
visualization8
solr7
rdd7
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fjavieralba/scraper
Oct 2011 - Dec 2011
Configurable Python Web Scraper
Contributions:15 commits in 2 months
pythonscrapyconfigurablepython-webweb-scraper
fjavieralba/ruleparser
Jul 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:5 commits in 3 months
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