Summary
Javier Pena is an experienced software architect and engineering advisor with 11 years delivering cloud-native, secure and highly available systems across finance and industrial sectors. AWS Certified and fluent in Java EE/Spring, Python, LAMP stacks and modern front-end frameworks, he designs SOA, microservices and event-driven architectures and implements CI/CD, DevOps and SecDevOps practices. He has led teams and technical offices, audited application security, and performed ethical hacking while deploying observability stacks like Elasticsearch, Wazuh, Prometheus and Grafana. Comfortable with container platforms (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes) and mobile/native development, he also contributes to open source projects from his GitHub. Based in Greater Santiago de Compostela, he combines hands-on implementation with architectural oversight, often bridging security auditing insights into pragmatic cloud deployments.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería Técnica en Informática de Sistemas IT, Ingeniería Técnica en Informática de Sistemas IT at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela