Salva Alcántara
Technical Lead at Auvik Networks Inc.
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolSalva Alcántara is a Technical Lead with nine years of industry experience bridging academia and production software, currently leading engineering at Auvik Networks from Barcelona. He combines a PhD-level background in Automatic Control and Signal Processing with hands-on expertise in distributed systems, stream processing (Apache Flink), Scala, Go, and cloud-native tooling. Salva has driven migrations from monoliths to microservices, built network-visibility and NetFlow processing pipelines, and designed DSLs with ANTLR while favoring clean, well-structured code. Equally comfortable in DevOps and ML-inflected engineering, he applies mathematical rigor (and occasional category-theory curiosity) to practical automation and observability challenges. A former researcher and lecturer, he brings experience supervising teams and delivering customer deployments, and he values simplicity over quick fixes. Notably, his career arc reflects a deliberate move from control-theoretic research into production-grade stream processing and scalable telemetry systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science and Engineering, BSc, Computer Science and Engineering at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spanish, Catalan, English
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Github Skills (104)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
salvalcantara/functionally-curious
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
salvalcantara/salvalcantara.github.io
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:115 pushes, 32 branches in 2 years 10 months
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