Summary
Miguel Fontanilla is a Staff Platform Engineering Lead with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms, containers, and orchestration at scale, currently leading platform engineering at sennder from Seville, Spain. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, virtualization, CI/CD and automation with a strong background in hybrid and multi-cloud projects from roles at Orange and IBM. Miguel runs the technical blog Kubes&Clouds, reflecting a commitment to continuous learning and community education that complements his production-focused work. His career blends systems architecture, platform reliability and developer experience, with practical skills in Terraform, Ansible, Helm and observability stacks. Notably, he brings telecom engineering roots and research lab experience in 5G and edge computing, giving him a broader systems perspective beyond typical platform engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Seville
Telecommunications Engineering Master, Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering Master, Telecommunications Engineering at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
Leadership School, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Passed with Honours, Leadership School, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Passed with Honours at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Ingeniería de telecomunicaciones, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Ingeniería de telecomunicaciones at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, French