Santiago González Courel

Madrid, Spain santiago.gonzalez.courel@email.com

I've been working in IT industry for more than 19 years. With a strong technical background, I am experienced in making sure that company's business strategy uses technology systems architecture properly to achieve their goals. I define/design/develope solutions based on cloud (or hybrid cloud) technologies.

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Experience

IT Architect

Axpo Iberia

Nowadays, I working on bring to the company relable, scalable and maintanable (hybrid) architectures based on Kubernetes, kafka, mongodb, etc. we are doing a Digital Transformation in Retail and Energy Management departments building new and innovate solutions. Furthermore, I am bringing support to parnerts teams about quality codes, patterns, and all related with best practices

Before this, I'm worker as Project Manager on xREM (now this project is called Power Pulse). This is a high volume data project to monitoring & optimizating windfarms and solar plants.

April 2015 - Present

Project Manager

Software AG

I have participated in several projects with Spring Framework environment.

February 2006 - April 2015

Software Developer

ISBAN

I worked on several projects based on Java technologies: Spring Framework, JSF, etc.

March 2004 - February 2006

Junior Software Developer

Axpe Consulting

This was my debut in the it sector. It may not be a relevant experience but I am proud of my beginnings. I was working on Visual Basic 6 solutions and Visual foxPro for several clients like That's English! sponsored by BBVA.

March 2003 - March 2004

Education

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Computer Sciences University Degree
February 20018 - Present

Palomeras-Vallecas High School

Certificate of Higher Education Developing IT Applications
September 2001 - May 2003

Skills

Aptitudes
  • Develop architectures for massive internet scale
  • Solve deep technical problems in a landscape transforming with several business models
  • Drive, lead and address the big and hard problems that are Enterprise-wide and common across teams that need resolution
  • Define and establish data and tech standards for enterprise data acquisition, cleansing, harmonization, storage, aggregation, transformation and consumption.
  • Lead and deliver on technical evaluations of core data technologies and frameworks.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and effectively with people at all levels in an organization

Technical knowledge
  • Experience on automation (e.g. Ansible, Jenkins, etc.) and IaC (Deployment Manager, Terraform), version control (e.g. Git), CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, or TFS, or Travis CI).
  • Proven track of design experience in the primary AWS (Amazon Web Services) services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3, VPC, Lambda, Service Catalog, Config)
  • Architecture management methodology (TOGAF)
  • Knowledge and experience about systems deployed on containers and orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher).
  • Knowledge in messaging JMS or brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka).
  • REST Api implementation following OpenAPI or AsyncAPI Specifications.

Interests

Apart from being a IT Architect, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. I enjoy cycling, in current year I have travelled over 7k kilometers.

When I'm not cycing, I like to enjoy gastronomy (eating & cooking), listen to music (my favourite band is La Habitación Roja) and reading essays on classical or modern philosophy, new emerging technologies, etc.

Certifications

  • Coursera :: Enterprise Architecture - credential
  • PeopleCert :: ITIL 4 Specialist Direct, Plan and Improve - credential
  • PeopleCert :: ITIL 4 Specialist Create, Deliver and Support - credential
  • PeopleCert :: ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management - credential
  • Coursera :: Hadoop Platform and Application Framework
  • Coursera :: Introduction to Big Data - credential