Javier Benitez
Platform Engineer
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJavier Benitez is a software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native backend systems, currently at Kry where he helped launch ML components in production and designed an internal column-level encryption library. He combines hands-on engineering with product and operational ownership—owning ML lifecycles, datastore migrations with zero downtime, and GDPR-compliant data flows. As a founder of startups (Trukatu, Grape) and a contributor to university courses, he blends entrepreneurial instincts with deep technical skills in cloud architecture, DevOps, and automated testing. At Kry he also fosters engineering culture as the organizer of a 100+ attendee Tech Talks program and has served as a Scrum Master for privacy tooling. Studying Cloud Computing and Entrepreneurship at EIT Digital (Aalto/KTH) sharpened his system-design focus and business awareness, while side projects reveal a consistent drive to iterate on practical solutions that reduce friction for users.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Entrepeneurship and Technology, Master's degree Entrepeneurship and Technology at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree in Cloud Computing and Services Business and Technology, Master's degree in Cloud Computing and Services Business and Technology at 28DIGITAL AlumniMaster's degree Entrepeneurship and Technology, Master's degree Entrepeneurship and Technology at Aalto UniversityUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaGrado en Ingenieria Informatica Computer and Information Sciences, General, Grado en Ingenieria Informatica Computer and Information Sciences, General at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (66)
operation10
metadata10
backend10
firebase10
charts10
javascript9
scheduler9
helm9
swift9
airbyte9
appwrite9
python9
mlops9
etl9
hosting9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
javib51/stuff
Jul 2016 - Mar 2020
This repository is just to save orphan code and maybe later transfer to other repository.
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 8 months
reactjavascriptorphannodejsmongodb
javib51/chitchat
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
flutter chat using firebase
Contributions:72 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 1 month
firebaseflutterchat-applicationdart2flutter-apps
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