Roger Alcon
Senior Backend Engineer at N26
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Alcon is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Barcelona with 25+ years of experience building platform and backend systems for finance and high-demand architectures. He specializes in Spring Cloud, Java and Kotlin, cloud-native deployments (AWS, Terraform, CDK) and robust testing practices to ensure reliability and maintainability at scale. At N26 he bridges backend and data science teams, designing Generative AI infrastructure and migrating ML workloads to scalable platforms like SageMaker. His career spans complex integrations for major banks and marketplaces, from low-level firmware and IoT to platform engineering for Schibsted and Adevinta, reflecting rare end-to-end technical depth. A committed knowledge sharer, he runs live coding streams and writes technical blog posts while continuously learning beyond his Master’s in Software Engineering.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Catalan, Spanish, English
Github Skills (129)
ktor10
stream10
spring-cloud-stream10
kotlin10
kafka-streams9
micronaut9
server-side9
spring-cloud-sleuth9
testing9
spring-cloud-stream-kafka9
pitest9
spring9
binder9
java9
groovy9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rogervinas/testwebapp
Dec 2015 - Jan 2022
🌐 Test Web Application using com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer and ReactiveX for Java
Contributions:4 PRs, 41 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 2 months
httpserverjsinteropweb-applicationweb-testsun
rogervinas/spring-cloud-stream-multibinder
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
🍀 Spring Cloud Stream Multibinder - Kafka & Kafka Streams
Contributions:62 PRs, 106 pushes, 69 branches in 3 years 6 months
spring-bootkafka-streamsspring-cloud-streamstreamskotlin
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