Luis Sánchez
Staff Data Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Sánchez is a Staff Data Engineer based in London with 13 years of professional experience and a 15-year software background spanning embedded systems to large-scale data platforms. He specializes in functional programming—particularly Scala—and has applied that expertise across streaming, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra and cloud-native infrastructures at companies from Mind Candy to Prima Assicurazioni. A regular speaker at conferences like Strata and Scala Exchange, he combines hands-on implementation (including notable open-source contributions to zio-quill’s Cassandra integration) with technical leadership roles such as backend tech lead and director. Known for modernising pipelines and building production data lakes and realtime analytics, he brings a pragmatic approach to marrying functional design with operational systems.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
databases10
cql10
functional-programming10
cassandra10
database10
scala10
jdbc9
testing8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zio/zio-quill
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Compile-time Language Integrated Queries for Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 32 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Luis primarily contributed to the `quill-cassandra` module, focusing on implementing and improving Cassandra database integration. Their work involved upgrading the Cassandra driver, adding support for features like DISTINCT queries, and addressing issues related to composite primary keys. They also implemented initial functionality for streaming data from Cassandra, making core code changes for the project's functionality. In addition, they made minor adjustments to test configurations and error messages.
functional-programmingdottylinqjdbccompile-time
lvicentesanchez/quill
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:60 pushes, 29 branches, 4 tags in 5 months
querycompile-timeintegratedfunctional-programminglanguage-integrated-query
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