Diego Álvarez Barrioluengo
Software Engineer & Tech Lead
Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead with 15+ years of experience designing, building and releasing web applications and APIs.
Manage the full software life cycle, maintain high code quality and lead teams to reliable releases. Strong technical skills, fast learner, adaptable and product-focused.
Enjoy working with distributed teams, solving software and architecture challenges, and learning about Big Data, Machine Learning and AI.
Work Experience
Tech Lead
Userlytics
4 yrs, 11 mos · Madrid, Spain · Remote
- In charge of one of the backend areas, migrating a legacy monolith to smaller services built with Laravel and FastAPI, and fixing long-standing issues
- Work with the Product team to plan, design and ship new features for the admin dashboard and APIs for different areas
- Lead a team of developers: review pull requests, agree on coding rules, mentor engineers and build integrations with external services such as AI, transcription and anti-fraud
- Improve database queries and indexes to reduce load times and improve overall performance
Senior Software Engineer / Software Architect
Tecnilógica / Accenture
8 yrs · Madrid, Spain · Hybrid
- Grew from full-stack developer to technical lead, owning the technical success of projects in banking, travel, retail, digital media and tech products
- Designed layered and microservices architectures, defined REST APIs and security guidelines, and produced time and resource estimates for new projects
- Led a PHP team: mentored developers, reviewed code and enforced best-practice standards
- Worked in back-end (Java, PHP, Node.js) and front-end layers, promoting clean code, automated testing and continuous integration
Software Engineer
Adysa Group IT Consulting
6 mos · Madrid, Spain · On-site
- Added new features and maintained existing code for several client web projects, working mainly on the back-end layer
Software Engineer
Ahora Información
2 yrs · León, Spain · On-site
- Designed, developed and maintained a digital newspaper, a car-trading portal, and a football-club website, covering the full stack from database to UI
Skills
Languages & Stack
Architecture & Quality
Data & DevOps
Leadership & Process
Side Projects
Habit and task management application designed for personal productivity.
Target Chords
Web application with useful exercises for guitar learning, such as ear training and fretboard visualization.
BI dashboard for a SaaS application
Analysis, design, and implementation of the ETL process and business intelligence dashboards for a SaaS application.
Rock and Blues Today
Database of musical ephemeris and auto-publish system in social networks.
Tales of Rock and Blues
Personal music blog, focused on rock and blues.
DevsOpen
Blog about technology, programming and system administration, with reviews, information and analysis of several OpenSource tools.
Monetization of a web application or internet service
Facebook client application for Laszlo Desktop and its monetization strategy.
Associated with Universidad de León, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard.
Soccer positions expert system
Expert system that determines the optimal field position in a soccer game based on technical, physical, and psychological attributes.
Associated with Universidad de León.
Management reports for an application monitoring system
A status reporting system that monitors web applications.
Associated with Universidad de León, in collaboration with Xeridia.
Education
Master of Science in Big Data and Business Intelligence
Universidad de León
- Graduated with Honours: Award for the Outstanding Graduate of the Year.
- Thesis: BI dashboard for a SaaS application.
- Big Data, Data Science, Data Security, Machine Learning, AI, Cybersecurity, Business Intelligence.
Master of Engineering in Computer Science
Universidad de León
- Thesis: Monetization of a web application or internet service.
- Software Engineering, Software Design, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Data Structures, Databases, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Algorithms, AI, Knowledge Engineering, Security, Networking.
Certifications
Python Institute
Python Institute
MongoDB University
Certification for Laravel Program
Awards
Outstanding Graduate of the Year
Universidad de León