Summary
Roberto Herrero is a Director of Data Architecture & Engineering based in Valencia with 15+ years of software development experience and a strong focus on big data, streaming, and AI-driven solutions. He has progressed from hands-on roles as a Java/Scala engineer and SDE II at Amazon to leading data architecture teams, driving production ETL, datalake, and real-time platforms across banking, telecom, and connected-car projects. He combines deep technical fluency in Kafka, Flink, Spark, Beam, Kubernetes and GCP with practical delivery experience building QoE and real-time accounting engines at scale. A seasoned trainer and mentor, he has taught Big Data and stream-processing topics at UPV and industry masters programs, translating complex architectures into learnable patterns. Not obviously, his background in parallel and distributed computing underpins a knack for migrating legacy Hadoop workloads to cloud-native Kubernetes/S3 environments.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Universitat Politècnica de València
Spanish, English