Luis Alcantara
Android Developer at ASOS.com
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLuis Alcantara is an Android developer with 11 years of experience building high-performance mobile and TV experiences, currently contributing to ASOS in London and co-founding Rentallo.app. He has a strong track record shipping production features—from migrating major screens to Jetpack Compose and optimizing PLP/PDP performance to architecting Android TV players with ExoPlayer and SSAI integrations. Luis pairs hands-on coding with cross-team collaboration, regularly participating in code reviews and pair programming with 15+ engineers to maintain quality at scale. An active back-end contributor, he improved metrics, logging and performance monitoring for the widely used Skipper HTTP proxy, demonstrating a focus on observability beyond the UI. He blends product-driven engineering with startup grit, moving between foundational platform work and customer-facing improvements. Based in London, he’s known for squeezing reliability and productivity gains out of complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
router10
logging10
proxy10
go10
metric10
http-proxy10
routers10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
cloud-computing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zalando/skipper
Jul 2015 - Jan 2018
An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 41 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Luis primarily focused on enhancing the Skipper proxy, specifically by adding and integrating metrics and logging capabilities. They refactored the metrics package and integrated timer functionalities for performance monitoring. The user also implemented new metrics, error counters, and stream monitoring. Furthermore, the user introduced new generator implementations and updated package documentation.
casesproxyingress-controllercontourreverse-proxy
lmineiro/senza
Apr 2015 - Jul 2018
Create and execute AWS CloudFormation templates in a sane way.
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
aws-cloudformationamazon-web-serviceshclcloudformation-templatesaws
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