Joan Piñol
Cloud Engineering Manager at Roche
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJoan Piñol is a Cloud Engineering Manager based in Barcelona with two decades of software engineering experience and nine years focused on cloud and API leadership. He has led cloud-native and microservices initiatives for healthcare and banking—designing AWS platforms, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka event-driven systems, and secure API middleware for transactional banking. Known as a "back-end samurai," he blends hands-on backend craftsmanship with strategic architecture and delivery management, including PSD2/OpenBanking and digital security solutions. He also teaches data architecture and holds advanced credentials in security, business administration and NoSQL/Big Data, which inform his pragmatic, security-first approach to scalable systems. An experienced integrator of on-prem and cloud hybrid architectures, Joan is comfortable moving complex legacy landscapes to modern, observable platforms.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)Executive MBA, Executive MBA at EAE Business SchoolUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaMSc in Information Systems Security, MSc in Information Systems Security at esCERT-UPCBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Universitat de Barcelona
Spanish, Catalan, English
Github Skills (33)
maze6
python5
flask-application4
django4
solver4
flask4
django-rest-framework3
rest3
aws3
sqlalchemy3
rule3
code-kata3
odoo2
discord2
movie2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
japinol7/retail-kiosk
Jul 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:4 releases, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
japinol7/teams-generator-service
Apr 2022 - Jan 2025
This microservice generates RPG teams from a fixed file of names. It uses AWS
Contributions:11 releases, 13 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 10 months
awsmicroservices
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