Alvaro Puertas

From an early age, I’ve always been deeply interested in computing. It was my dad, introducing me to the computer systems at his workplace in a bank that first sparked this interest. I can always remember the feeling of wanting to know just how computers worked, why they worked and what else they could do. I remember when my father bought a Spectrum 48K in 1982, when I was 6, and we started to develop a submarine game in Basic. In Santander, where I lived when I was young, there wasn't an IT degree, and I started studying a Geography degree which could have potentially given me many job opportunities. However, when I graduated there wasn’t any work available. In 1998 I started my secondary studies in IT, in which I achieved a first degree with honors. Later in 2000 I started my professional career in IT in a company that belonged to IBM in Madrid. Working in IT has given me more than 20 years of professional experience, for service companies, consultancies, end customers, in different sectors, public, private, energy, telecommunications, tourism, aeronautics and banking. My work has always been oriented to the most technical part, but I have also managed work teams, becoming head of development, managing more than 20 people, and I feel very comfortable in a role in which I can communicate with all the stakeholders since I like to know all the points of view of a project. I am a very sporty person, throughout my life, I have practiced sports and the last 15 years I have been doing athletics, running more than 25 marathons around the world. I also like to run ultra-marathons finishing self-sufficiency races like Marathon des Sables in the Sahara Desert, Fire and Ice in Iceland, and other ultra-races in adverse weather conditions. For me, living outside the comfort zone is something normal, exactly like my job in IT since you must be constantly learning and adapting so as not to be left behind.

OCTOBER 2023 - CURRENTLY: SOLUTION ARCHITECT / KNOWMAD MOOD, MADRID Business or Sector: IT Consultancy • Santa Lucia Seguros. Government of Enterprise Architecture. Analyze, define, and design solutions architectures core services. Define the model, patterns, standards of software development and code control. Configuration management of environments. Maintenance of WIKI Architecture Standards Technical and Functional expert support. ● Cloud Platform: Azure, ● Best Practices: Scrum, User Story, Kanban ● Backend: Java 17, Microservices in SpringBoot2, Spring Framework, REST, Apache Camel, RedHat Fuse ● JMS: Kafka ● Security: OAuth2 ● Monitoring, tracing and metrics solutions with stack ELK, Prometheus, Graphana, ● CI/CD: Sonar, Git, GitHub, ArgoCD ● Dependencies and artefacts: Maven ● Design Patterns, SOLID ● API First, SwaggerHub SEPTEMBER 2021 - OCTOBER 2023: SOLUTION ARCHITECT / SMALL WORLD FINANCIAL SERVICES, LONDON Business or Sector: Financial Services Government of Enterprise Architecture. Analyze, define, and design solutions architectures core services. Define the model, patterns, and standards of software development and code control Manage Continuous Integration System. Define application deployment and versioning methodology Configuration management of environments. Maintenance of WIKI Architecture Standards Technical and Functional expert support ● Cloud Platform: AWS, K8s, Docker, ● Best Practices: Scrum, User Story, Kanban ● Backend: Java 17, Microservices in SpringBoot2, Spring Framework, REST, GraphQL ● Frontend: Laravel ● Testing: Graphana K6 ● SQL: RDS Postgres ● NoSQL: MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB ● JMS: Kafka ● Cache: Redis, MemCached ● Security: OAuth2 ● Monitoring, tracing and metrics solutions with stack ELK, Prometheus, Graphana, Instana, Spring Boot Admin ● CI/CD: Sonar, Git, GitHub, ArgoCD ● Dependencies and artefacts: Maven, NPM ● Design Patterns, SOLID ● UML Diagrams MARCH 2020 – SEPTEMBER 2021: FUNCTIONAL ANALYST / BANCA MARCH, PALMA DE MALLORCA Business or Sector: Banking Wealth Project. Making functional documentation for the creation of new functionalities related to custody commission. Main functions: ▫ Analyze, define, and design new functionalities in the current technology of the bank. (COBOL / CICS / DB2) JANUARY 2017 - MARCH 2020: HEAD OF ARCHITECTURE / AVORIS TRAVEL, PALMA DE MALLORCA Business or Sector: Tourism Continuous Integration Systems: Jira, Bitbucket, Sonarqube, Bamboo ... + 200 Repositories + 3,000,000 lines of code MDBManager (in migration to AWS) Artifactory, API-Gateway, Distribution of apps in application servers of all environments + (200), Define interfaces of integration engines and product model, Administration of deployment permissions in environments (on-premises and Cloud), Transversal Microservices (Authentication, Configuration, Log, Traces.). BackOffice Application of Architecture Government of Enterprise Architecture. Analyze, define, and design solutions architectures for the front, services, and data layer Maintenance and update functional and technological architecture frameworks. Define the model, patterns, and standards of software development and code control Manage Continuous Integration System. Define application deployment and versioning methodology Configuration management of environments. Maintenance of WIKI Architecture Standards Technical and Functional expert support Analyze, define, and design transversal micro-services to current systems. ● Cloud Platform: AWS with RedHat OpenShift 4. ● Best Practices: Scrum, TDD, User Story, Kanban ● Backend: Java 8, Microservices in SpringBoot2, Spring Framework, REST, GraphQL ● Testing: Cucumber, Junit5, Test Containers, Rest Assured, Karma, Jasmin, Locust ● SQL: RDS Postgres ● NoSQL: MongoDB ● JMS: Kafka ● Cache: Redis ● Security: OAuth2 ● Monitoring, tracing, and metrics solutions with stack ELK, Prometheus, Graphana, Instana, Spring Boot Admin ● CI/CD: Jenkins, Sonar, Git ● Dependencies and artefacts: Maven, NPM ● Design Patterns, SOLID ● UML Diagrams JUNE 2016 - JANUARY 2017: SOLUTION ARCHITECT / HOTELBEDS, PALMA DE MALLORCA Business or Sector: Tourism I was in charge of the following Systems. • Hotel Integration Engine (Caronte Web, Caronte Services) • Financial control system (Cash Management, Fx Management) APRIL 2014 – JUNE 2016: HEAD OF ARCHITECTURE / AVORIS TRAVEL, PALMA DE MALLORCA Business or Sector: Tourism Continuous Integration Systems: Jira, Bitbucket, Sonarqube, Bamboo ... + 200 Repositories + 3,000,000 lines of code Artifactory, API-Gateway, Distribution of apps in application servers of all environments + (200), Define interfaces of integration engines and product model, Administration of deployment permissions in environments (on-premises) Government of Enterprise Architecture. Analyze, define, and design solutions architectures for the front, services, and data layer Maintenance and update functional and technological architecture frameworks. Define the model, patterns, and standards of software development, and code control Manage Continuous Integration System. Define application deployment and versioning methodology Configuration management of environments. Maintenance of WIKI Architecture Standards. Technical and Functional expert support. Analyze, define, and design transversal micro-services to current systems. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY OCT 2012 – APR 2014: PROJECT MANAGER AND HEAD OF ARCHITECTURE / BRUJULA TECNOLOGÍAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN, PALMA DE MALLORCA Business or Sector: Tourism MAR 2011 – JUL 2012: IT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER / AVALON TECNOLOGÍAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN, SANTANDER Business or Sector: IT Services • Public Sector (Government of Cantabria) DEC 2008 – MAR 2011: PROJECT MANAGER / CIC CONSULTING INFORMÁTICO, SANTANDER Business or Sector: IT Services • Public Sector (Government of Cantabria) • Telco (British Telecom) • Energy (E-ON) JUL 2005 – DEC 2008: ANALYST – PROJECT MANAGER / ATOS ORIGIN, SANTANDER Business or Sector: IT Services • Public Sector (Government of Cantabria) • Telco (Telefonica) • Telco (Vodafone) • Energy (ENDESA) OCT 2001 – JUL 2005: ANALYST – PROJECT MANAGER / GLOBALIA CORP, MADRID Business or Sector: Tourism / Aeronautics SEP 2000 – OCT 2001: TEACHER – SENIOR DEVELOPER / INSA IBM GLOBAL SERVICES, MADRID Business or Sector: IT Services JUL 1999 – JUN 2000: DEVELOPER / TEFICAR, SANTANDER Business or Sector: IT Services

EDUCATION 

JUNE 1998 Geography (Specialty in Physical Geography) University of Cantabria, Santander 

JUNE 2000 Computer Engineering Associate Degree CEDEFOR (Centro Europeo de Formación Profesional) First degree with honors.