I'm Álvaro, just a passionate Software Engineer, but I have a great story to tell you about my professional path. Let's take a look!

Since November 2024

Since February 2023 to October 2024

I worked at GFT Technologies SE as a Backend Engineer, and I'm so happy to be rounded by a very warm and friendly international environment. I'm assigned to a private banking project, developing a trade finance platform on microservices and built in Java and Spring, some of my responsibilities here are

• Be part of the analysis, design and development phases of the new incoming functionalities of the platform
• Integrate IBM MQ / Kafka event streaming platforms
• Onboard new services into Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Develop test modules following the testing pyramid model, which includes unit testing, integration testing and end-to-end testing

I also learned a lot since I'm working here, for example I learned

• To integrate Terraform with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) following the architecture as a code principle
• To develop build and deployment pipelines using GitHub Workflows where also SDLC controls were integrated into them
• To build tests using Serenity and Cucumber in a behavior-riven development (BDD) way

Lastly, I enforced my skills in

• Following high quality standards, backed by SOLID principles and good implementation of design patters
• Developing clean code working with checkstyle, PMD, CPD, Spot bugs and SonarQube

Job experience summary

From September 2020 to July 2022

I worked at IThinkUPC for 2 years, and I'm very proud about having started my journey here. I started as an intern at my 20s and some time later I was promoted to developer.

Here, I worked on several very different projects, I went through public administration, financial, estate management and cultural foundations projects. Some of my duties here were

• Do the analysis, design and development for new features which implied
  • The user interface in Angular powered by Bootstrap
  • The API REST endpoints, included in Java and Spring applications
• Develop test modules with unit testing and integration testing

I started learning the most important principles of software development as

• SOLID and design patterns
• Clean code working with checkstyle and SonarQube

Job experience summary

From September 2018 to January 2023

I was lucky to be able to study in one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, I coursed the Bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering with Major in Computing in the Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona faculty. During this period I faced a lot of challenges and worked on several projects, mostly of them backed by program languages like C, C++, Java and Python.

From September 2022 to January 2023

In the last period of my bachelor's I had the opportunity to study abroad, I went to the Czech Technical University in Prague, specifically to the Faculty of Information Technology, very know to be one of the bests in the field of cybersecurity. I coursed some subjects in cryptanalysis, forensics, algorithms of information technology and DevOps.

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