After finishing my studies, my career did lead me to work with the Information Retrieval Lab as a Software Engineer for 4 years, where my specialization in Information Retrieval started; don´t know what Information Retrieval is? Simplifying it a whole lot, it is all about search.

After that I moved to The Netherlands where I worked with aAttivio technologies, a search ecosystem based in Lucene, developing web search applications. Three years passed and my next destination was Abu Dabi, where I transitioned to a role more oriented to architecture (still, a lot of software development involved!).

My next step was to move to open source software, working for Elastic, an ecosystem of distributed software which started as a pure search distributed engine as a Support Engineer. This gave me the opportunity to become more acquainted with open source, with the startups environment - the company had grown to around 4x when I moved to the next challenge -, and in general with working daily with customers (a great chance to improve soft skills!). Apart from doing Support, I got the change to write a couple of blog post, A Practical Introduction to Elasticsearch and How to Tune Elastic Beats Performance: A Practical Example with Batch Size, Worker Count, and More

My last software products/development job was at Confluent, A self-managed, enterprise-grade distribution of Apache Kafka, where I worked as a Customer Success Technical Architect, helping customers with their Confluent deployments (mostly, from the architectural point of view).

Finally, in 2022 and 2023, I have been teaching the subject Requirements Engineering at the University of a Coruña, part of the University Degree in Software Engineering - also, in 2022 I managed the practical assignments in the subject Information Retrieval, part of the University Degree in Data Engineering.

One of the things that I like the most is sharing what I did learn in my career. I enjoy giving talks at conferences, being the last one Vamos a llevarnos bien, porque si no van a haber hondonadas de ostias aquí, ¡eh!, in 2023, where I discuss on how to de-escalate stressful situations with customers or colleagues, aiming to have the best outcome for everybody involved in difficult situations - the first talk I made on a non technical subject.

You can find in this repository some small projects in which I worked. Also, if you have the urge to know more about my career, you can refer to my Linkedin profile where you fill find a more comprehensive list of projects, publications... Feel free to drop me a message there!