Summary
Sergio Alves is a Senior Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 8 years of experience designing and delivering high-scale, data-intensive systems. He brings deep expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and observability, having worked with Scala, Java, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes and a wide AWS toolset across consultancy and product teams. At Thoughtworks he combined TDD, pair programming and continuous deployment to ship microservices multiple times per day, and more recently moved into senior roles at eDreams ODIGEO and New Relic. Comfortable both coaching teams and diving into low-level systems design, he pairs pragmatic delivery with strong architectural thinking. A former bootcamp teaching assistant and ex-customer-service leader, he uniquely blends technical rigor with effective stakeholder communication and team coaching.
8 years of coding experience