Joan Riera is a Senior Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 10 years of experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms. He specializes in Java and Scala ecosystems and has repeatedly led teams building streaming and batch pipelines with Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes across fintech and data-centric product companies. His career spans hands-on leadership roles鈥攆rom Head of Data Engineering at Stuart to Tech Lead and Engineering Manager positions鈥攄emonstrating a blend of technical depth and people management. Comfortable moving between individual contributor and managerial duties, he enjoys leaving his comfort zone to explore new architectures and optimize delivery through CI/CD and cloud-native practices. Trained in computer engineering with a focus on computer vision and data compression, he brings a strong academic foundation to pragmatic production systems.
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