Summary
Ruben Gonzalez is a Senior Data Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms across industries from adtech to retail. He specializes in Scala, Spark, Kafka and cloud-native tooling (Azure, Databricks, Kubernetes) to build resilient ETL pipelines and real-time processing systems. Ruben pairs deep backend and data engineering expertise with practical DevOps skills—automating deployments, containerizing workloads, and optimizing data warehouses for performance. He contributes spare-time data science work to a health recommendation research project, applying TensorFlow and Python to real-world scientific information challenges. Based in Barcelona, he thrives in collaborative, proactive teams and is equally comfortable translating analytical models into production-grade data products.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Spanish, Catalan, Galician, English