Leonardo Gonzales
Project Leader (Web Backend & Infrastructure) at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonardo Gonzales is a project leader and software engineer with over 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Java enterprise, distributed systems and API-driven web backends, currently leading web backend and infrastructure for UniProt at EMBL-EBI. He combines deep Java and Spring expertise with search, graph and big-data technologies (Apache Solr, Neo4j, Apache Spark) and hands-on cloud-native deployment using Kubernetes, Helm and GitLab CI/CD. He has progressed from senior developer to technical lead roles across academia and industry, bringing practical experience in JMS, JAX-RS and relational databases to large-scale bioinformatics services. A former computer science teacher, he blends strong mentoring and communication skills with technical leadership. Based in the Greater Cambridge area, he focuses on reliable, scalable data services for scientific communities and quietly champions pragmatic infrastructure improvements that reduce operational toil.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Fundação Educacional do Município de AssisPost-graduate, Software Engineering, Post-graduate, Software Engineering at Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba
English
Github Skills (39)
solrcloud10
website-development10
spring-batch10
xsd10
uniprot10
postman10
nodejs10
x1210
postman-collection9
spark9
newman9
parser9
json-report9
spring-boot9
voldemort9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ebi-uniprot/unp.fw.taxonomy
Oct 2016 - Mar 2025
Rest services to return information about protein taxonomy tree. Basically there are services that returns details about a taxonomy element and also details about it parent, siblings and children. There are also services that return the relationship between 2 taxonomy elements, and the path between them. Services can return JSON or XML format
Contributions:41 pushes, 12 branches in 8 years 6 months
returnsxml-formatelementsxmlrest
ebi-uniprot/uniprot-store
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
This project is for building uniprot search engine
Contributions:165 reviews, 815 commits, 311 PRs in 3 years 9 months
spring-bootpythonvoldemortsolrcloudlifescience
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