Miguel Alonso
Lead Data Engineer
Gijón, Asturias, Spain
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Top SchoolMiguel Alonso is a Lead Data Engineer based in Gijón, Spain, with 11 years of experience building data, cloud and machine learning platforms for both startups and large enterprises. He has led teams and technical roadmaps at companies like Zendesk, Bank of America and Showtime Analytics, focusing on resilient, high-throughput systems (Edge infrastructure handling trillions of requests daily) and automation to improve service quality and recoverability. As a founder and freelance CTO he bridges product, operations and engineering, turning prototypes into production ML and data pipelines. Known for mentoring distributed teams and defining standards for security and compliance (SOC2/FedRAMP), he combines hands-on architecture design with people leadership. Comfortable across the stack, Miguel brings a pragmatic, efficiency-first mindset and a history of shipping systems that scale under real-world operational constraints.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.Master, Information Systems Strategy, Master, Information Systems Strategy at Dublin City UniversityBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidad Nebrija
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (14)
shell-extension7
shell6
software-update6
bash5
macos4
cd4
zsh4
gis3
file-browser3
docker-container3
hdfs2
latex2
spark2
firefox2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
loopbit/word-puzzle
Sep 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
loopbit/autoenv_fish
Sep 2016 - May 2020
Directory-based environments for fish shell users
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
shell
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