David García Álvarez
Staff Backend Software Engineer
Madrid, Spain
Backend engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating high-throughput cloud platforms across e-commerce, fintech, and telecom. Comfortable from greenfield architecture to deep production firefighting. Strong believer in observability, automation, and keeping systems boring in the best possible way.
Career
Experience
JOOR
Staff Backend Software Engineer
Lead backend development on a global B2B fashion e-commerce platform connecting thousands of brands and retailers. Drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and own critical platform services. Deep focus on reliability, performance, and cloud cost efficiency.
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Smart Protection
Staff Backend Software Engineer
Built and operated a large-scale distributed crawler platform for brand protection and digital asset monitoring across the open web. Architected serverless and event-driven pipelines handling millions of daily crawl jobs with high resilience.
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Tuenti
Backend Software Engineer
Developed and maintained backend services powering Tuenti's telecom product. Worked across polyglot microservices with a strong emphasis on observability, reliability engineering, and zero-downtime deployments on Kubernetes.
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Beeva (BBVA Group)
Backend Software Engineer
Designed and built a DBaaS (Database as a Service) platform enabling automated provisioning of PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch instances via OpenStack. Exposed a unified multi-protocol access layer over gRPC — conceptually similar to Google Cloud Spanner.
Highlights
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Beeva (BBVA Group)
Big Data Engineer
Productionized BBVA Data & Analytics machine learning projects including a banking transaction categorizer, a predictive alerts engine for spending patterns, and a sociodemographic comparator. Built end-to-end Spark pipelines on Cloudera.
Highlights
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Sopra Steria
Backend Developer
Developed REST API services backing the new Sanitas (Spain's leading private health insurer) website and mobile application. Delivered clean, well-tested endpoints under a tight deadline and contributed to frontend architecture knowledge transfer.
Highlights
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Bayes Forecast
Java Developer
Built a web scraper to discover and collect bibliographic data by ISBN across multiple sources, and integrated the harvested data with the client's internal database system.
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Active Business & Technology
Dynamics NAV Developer
Implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP solutions for enterprise clients, developing custom modules and complex reporting integrations.
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Toolkit
Skills & Expertise
Languages
Infrastructure
Databases
Observability
Practices
Background
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Specialization in Information Technologies. Awarded five academic honors. Electives included Computer Graphics, Automatic Systems Design, and Mobile Development.
Frontend Architecture Intensive Course
Sopra Steria
Course delivered by a frontend architect covering JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, NodeJS, and Angular — designed to bridge backend engineers to the frontend stack.
Cisco CCNA 1
Salesianos Atocha, Madrid
Official Cisco CCNA certification course.