Laura Ballestar
Software Engineer at Rover.com
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolLaura Ballestar is a software engineer with eight years of experience building CI/CD-driven, cloud-native platforms and developer tooling from Barcelona. She has led large-scale Internal Developer Platform (Backstage) rollouts and migrations, scaling catalogs to hundreds of services while integrating data from Datadog, GitHub and other sources. Laura combines hands-on DevOps practice—Terraform-managed AWS infra and GitHub Actions with self-hosted runners—with a background in computer vision and event-driven architectures, enabling both ML-driven product features and robust platform automation. Her career includes transitioning projects to open source (notably Celonis’ Kafka EMS connector) and improving developer experience through ephemeral environments and reproducible pipelines. Known for bridging stakeholder communication and technical execution, she thrives on making complex integrations simple and maintainable. Currently at Rover.com, she continues to focus on scalable, developer-friendly infrastructure and delivery.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree in Computer Vision Ciencias de la computación, Master's degree in Computer Vision Ciencias de la computación at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaBachillerato Tecnológico, Bachillerato Tecnológico at IES Damià CampenyUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, Catalan, English
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Github Skills (25)
kafka-connect10
jms10
cassandra10
http10
kafka10
cosmosdb10
gcp10
segmentation10
pubsub10
mongodb10
docker9
mqtt9
dataops9
influxdb9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LauraMoraB/BrainTumorSegmentation
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
Brain tumor segmentation for BRATS2020
Contributions:125 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 8 months
segmentation
imatge-upc/mri-braintumor-segmentation
Nov 2020 - May 2021
MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation - BraTS Challenge 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
segmentation
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