Raúl Torrecilla
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Elastic
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolRaúl Torrecilla is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Barcelona with a Master's in Computer Science and a track record leading high-throughput, cloud-native platforms across SaaS and telemetry domains. He has guided distributed, multicultural teams through large migrations, cost optimizations and reliability improvements at companies like New Relic, Sage and Elastic, working with Java microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes and AWS/Azure. Known for blending technical rigor with people-first leadership, he focuses on SLA-driven delivery, incident readiness, and career development while scaling teams and reducing operational costs. His background spans regulated medical-software delivery to performance-sensitive telemetry pipelines, giving him a rare mix of compliance discipline and cloud-scale engineering. Colleagues describe him as quality-oriented and continuously curious, investing in both technical skills and team health every day.
3 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree in Computer Science, Master Degree in Computer Science at Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
Spanish, catalá, English, German
Github Skills (18)
java9
apm9
apm-server9
distributed-tracing9
performance-monitoring9
devops9
opentelemetry9
elasticsearch9
append5
elastic4
api3
elastic-apm3
go-api3
kubernetes3
opentelemetry-collector2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/apm-server
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 46 comments, 7 issues in 2 months
performance-monitoringapmdevopserror-monitoringperformance-metrics
elastic/apm-k8s-attacher
Apr 2025 - Apr 2025
Elastic APM Attacher for Kubernetes
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
mutatingapmelasticmutating-webhookobservability
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