Summary
Jose Leal is a testing and automation leader with 9 years of experience building and operating high-scale distributed systems, specializing in Go and backend infrastructure. He has led cross-team platform overhauls—from consolidating fragmented CI pipelines into a Bazel-based, cached monorepo pipeline to designing Go CLIs that replace brittle shell tooling—improving developer velocity and production parity. Jose has owned mission-critical platforms at telecom and cloud email providers, including a 10M-subscriber customer profile system and infrastructure supporting 100B+ monthly emails, and has a strong track record of safely migrating legacy stacks and decoupling monoliths. He combines deep technical execution with the patience to drive organization-wide adoption, prioritizing maintainability and reliability so teams can ship fast without fear. An often-overlooked strength is his focus on closing dev/prod gaps—replacing in-memory test doubles with production-equivalent test infrastructure to catch issues earlier.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería informática, Grado en Ingeniería Ingeniería informática at Universitat d'Alacant