Juan Canales
Google Cloud Architect (in Deutsche Bank UK) at GFT Group
Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolJuan Canales is a seasoned cloud architect with 9 years focused on designing and migrating critical banking applications to GCP, currently leading architecture work for Deutsche Bank UK through GFT Group. He blends hands-on IaC (Terraform), CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, Docker image creation, and security-first design to deliver robust disaster recovery and cost-optimized solutions. His background spans project management, application ownership and engineering across major banks (Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Standard Chartered, HSBC), giving him deep domain knowledge of regulatory, audit and operational constraints. Trained in distributed systems and mobile development, he combines formal engineering education with practical scripting and cloud automation experience (Python/Boto3, Terraform). Colleagues rely on him to translate complex legacy on-prem platforms into secure, observable cloud architectures while proposing continuous enhancements. Based in Sant Cugat del Vallès, he is comfortable operating in cross-functional Scrum teams and troubleshooting policy/security violations at scale.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, BCs Technical Systems Engineer in IT, Information Technology, BCs Technical Systems Engineer in IT at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Spanish, Catalan, PortugueseGithub contributions (5)
JuanCanales/project1
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
JuanCanales/pipelines
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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