Juan Sanchez
Senior Platform Engineer
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Sanchez is a Senior Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, and scalable backend services across fintech and travel platforms. He has driven platform reliability and developer productivity at companies like Checkout.com, Nubank and Wizeline, blending SRE practices with product-oriented service design using technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, Clojure, Go, Elixir and Ruby. His background spans end-to-end delivery—from leading technical architecture and data engineering at OPI Analytics to improving SLAs and observability for high-traffic e-commerce and media clients. Juan contributes to open-source PaaS projects like tsuru, improving API ergonomics and test quality, reflecting a practical focus on API design and maintainability. Based in the UK, he combines hands-on implementation with mentorship and teaching experience, having trained engineers in advanced JavaScript and SRE concepts. He’s particularly interested in applying distributed systems and AI research to build reliable, user-focused applications at scale.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Computer Engineering at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoComputer Science Computer Engineering, Computer Science Computer Engineering at University of North Texas
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (11)
go10
api10
apidoc10
testing9
go-testing9
docker8
dockers8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
container7
devops6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tsuru/tsuru
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Open source and extensible Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Juan primarily focused on enhancing the application's API functionality within the `tsuru/tsuru` repository. They implemented features related to app listing, specifically introducing and refactoring a "simplified" flag for the apps endpoint. This work involved modifying existing API endpoints and adjusting test cases, impacting how application information is presented. The contributions also involved addressing linting issues, ensuring code quality.
containerspaasdevopsdockeras-a-service
LabPLC/muevete_sedesa
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:197 commits in 8 months
pythonproyectolassaludque
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