Summary
Rodrigo Villamuera is a Senior Staff Engineer based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping microservices and distributed systems from conception to production. He is fluent in Golang, gRPC, Kafka, NoSQL and Kubernetes, and pairs deep technical ownership with incident management and observability expertise. Rodrigo has a track record of leading and mentoring teams of up to ten engineers, driving best practices, and delivering cost-effective solutions that prioritize business value. His background spans startups and scale-stage companies—cofounder roles early in his career and senior engineering leadership at firms like Kobalt, Improbable, and ICEYE—giving him both entrepreneurial grit and enterprise rigor. Colleagues regularly recognize him as a high-impact, knowledge-sharing engineer who blends practical engineering with strategic thinking. An atypical detail: despite a strong backend focus, he began his career in web development and product-facing roles, which informs his pragmatic approach to stakeholder collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Técnico en Informática de Sistemas Computer Engineering, Ingeniero Técnico en Informática de Sistemas Computer Engineering at Universidad de Salamanca
CFGS Desarrollo de aplicaciones informáticas Computer Engineering, CFGS Desarrollo de aplicaciones informáticas Computer Engineering at Colegio Amanecer
English