Alvaro Garcia
Senior Software Engineer at John Lewis Partnership
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvaro Garcia is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with over two decades of experience designing and operating scalable, high-performance systems for high-traffic environments. He combines deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems, data platforms and cloud-native infrastructure with proven leadership in guiding distributed teams, mentoring engineers and driving technical delivery. His work includes multi-region migrations for large-scale Git hosting, building data platforms for hundreds of thousands of properties, and implementing tax systems that support tens of millions of users, demonstrating a knack for reliability and data integrity at scale. Comfortable in client-facing and consultancy roles, he blends technical strategy with pragmatic execution across Java, Scala, Kubernetes and event-driven architectures. Colleagues benefit from his emphasis on observability, automation and testing practices that reduce latency and operational toil. Based in London and open to remote or contract roles, he brings a rare combination of production-grade engineering, machine-learning-informed repository optimisation, and strong stakeholder communication.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Enginering, Computer Science, Enginering, Computer Science at Ghent UniversityEngeering, Computer Science, Engeering, Computer Science at Universidad de Murcia
scala
Github Skills (26)
jenkins8
batch6
google-cloud6
streaming5
scala5
beam5
dataflow4
kotlin3
gerrit3
ci-scripts3
bigquery3
ml2
machine-learning2
google-cloud-dataflow2
functional-programming2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tvlive/tv-api
Jun 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:58 commits, 103 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 9 months
avilaplana/consoleSocialNetwork
Apr 2015 - Sep 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 6 months
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