Summary
Rubén Estrada is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with over a decade of experience designing and delivering distributed systems and financial-crime solutions, currently based in Shanghai and employed at UBS. His career spans hands-on full-stack Java and PHP development through to architecture and IT leadership roles across fintech, crypto trading, and high-traffic web platforms. Rubén has led cross-functional teams at Infosys and startups alike, translating complex requirements into scalable, production-grade systems and payment integrations. He brings deep experience in Java, Symfony, search and caching technologies, and has operated both as a builder and an IT head responsible for product and infrastructure decisions. Comfortable in multicultural, fast-paced environments, he combines enterprise banking domain knowledge with a background in high-availability consumer sites handling tens of thousands of concurrent users. His mix of tactical engineering and long-term architectural thinking makes him effective at bridging legacy systems and modern, distributed architectures.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
CFGS ASIR: Administración de Sistemas Informáticos en Red., CFGS ASIR: Administración de Sistemas Informáticos en Red. at Sagrado Corazon
HP AIS – Network Infrastructure, HP AIS – Network Infrastructure at HP
CFGS DAI: Desarrollo de Aplicaciónes Informáticas., CFGS DAI: Desarrollo de Aplicaciónes Informáticas. at Instituto Cibernos
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Spanish, German