Summary
Javier Fornells is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-throughput, resilient systems across finance, travel, and tech. He specializes in Java (up to Java 21), Spring Boot, microservices, and cloud-native re-architecture, repeatedly turning monoliths into independently deployable services that improve uptime and delivery velocity. Javier pairs pragmatic DevOps automation (Ansible, Azure Pipelines) with strong observability practices (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana), having cut incident resolution times and response latencies significantly at scale. He advocates SOLID, TDD, and clean code, mentors teammates, and leads knowledge-sharing to raise overall engineering standards. Based in the Greater Zaragoza area, he brings a track record of shipping high-performance APIs serving millions of users while maintaining A-grade code quality and measurable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Higher Education in software development Computer Science, Certificate of Higher Education in software development Computer Science at I.E.S. Pablo Serrano