Summary
Juan Rey is a Lead Systems Engineer based in Madrid with two decades of hands-on experience building and operating mission-critical systems and a focus on distributed systems. He has driven hybrid cloud and VMware-to-Azure initiatives at Microsoft, architected OpenStack/OpenShift solutions at Red Hat and VMware, and spent over a decade embedded with enterprise HP environments earlier in his career. Juan blends deep Unix/Linux, virtualization and automation expertise with SRE-minded reliability, observability, and reproducibility practices he promotes through a long-running technical blog that has engaged thousands of IT professionals. He excels at bridging customer-facing solution design with program delivery, reducing onboarding friction for large-scale VMware migrations and optimizing performance across multi-region workloads. Now leading systems at Lobera.ai, he retains a pragmatic engineer’s curiosity—self-described “distributed systems nerd”—and a knack for turning complex infrastructure challenges into repeatable operational patterns.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer