Summary
Jorge Astrain is a Senior Platform AI Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, secure backend and platform systems across e-commerce and enterprise environments. Born in Spain and based in Osaka, he has led high-impact integrations and platform work at Mercari and adidas, operating systems that serve millions of users and solving cross-region throughput and onboarding challenges. He combines hands-on expertise in Go, Python, Kafka, Terraform and Kubernetes with security-focused work on JWT, FIDO and Passkeys to reduce phishing risk in production. At Virtusize he built a Terraform provider for ClickHouse and a real-time event platform handling millions of events per day, demonstrating a knack for time-series and event-driven architectures. Jorge is an open-minded software craftsman and NVIM enthusiast who also brings product-facing collaboration experience, routinely translating product requirements into robust API and microservice designs. Beyond standard platform work, he has a history of shipping developer tooling and automation (CLI, GitOps, Kafka asset automation) that accelerates teams and operationalizes best practices.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Multiplatform Computer Science, Multiplatform Computer Science at Montessori
Microservices with Kubernetes, Microservices with Kubernetes at Container Solutions
Spanish, English