Summary
Joan Madrid is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building data and backend platforms for gaming and enterprise products, currently leading Data Engineering at Zynga after managing analytics at Socialpoint. He combines deep hands-on expertise in AWS data ecosystems (Redshift, Glue, EMR), streaming and real-time metrics, and bespoke BI/self-service analytics tools with a pragmatic "use the right tool" approach across databases like Redis, Cassandra and MySQL. Comfortable as both a senior developer and technical lead, he has shipped production ETL, event tracking and scheduling infrastructure and has a background across PHP/Symfony full‑stack development and casino/gaming platforms. Based in Barcelona, Joan pairs formal training in Big Data and Project Management with a lifelong passion for game development and experimenting with new technologies in his spare time, bringing both technical depth and product empathy to teams.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Project Management Gestión de proyectos, Master of Project Management Gestión de proyectos at EAE Business School
Ingeniero Informático Multimedia, Ingeniero Informático Multimedia at Universitat Ramon Llull
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Catalan, Spanish, English