Simon Soriano
Software Engineering Team Lead at Redpanda Data
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolSimon Soriano is a software engineering team lead based in Barcelona with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and cloud infrastructure. Currently leading engineering at Redpanda Data, he helped build the cloud for a high-performance, Kafka-compatible streaming platform and contributes to its open-source operator and server code. His background includes driving large-scale CI and test systems at Uber—where he co-authored a EuroSys paper on keeping master green—and co-founding a startup, giving him product instincts alongside deep technical craft. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and platform engineering, he has a track record of improving build performance, test reliability, and deployability in complex repositories. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances shipping reliable systems with mentoring teams and writing enduring operational documentation.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Systems Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Systems Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
c-language10
kafka10
go10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
storage-engine9
stream-processing9
microservices8
event-driven8
kubernetes-pods8
microservices-application8
kubernetes8
container7
html6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:76 reviews, 35 commits, 19 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the back-end functionality and infrastructure of the Redpanda streaming platform. Their work included whitelisting topic creation options within the Kafka server handlers. They also deprecated a Prometheus URL flag in favor of a metrics endpoint and fixed a typo in an error message. Further contributions show the user working on the operator side of the project, like development instructions for the README and fixing CN generation for trusted certs.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
CapituloJaverianoACM/JaveLogo
Dec 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 4 months
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