Alberto Ríos Calleja

Software Engineer passionate about building products people love in agile teams with a strong focus on tests, automation, and security.

Over the past decade, I’ve built products from concept to production that top companies around the world rely on, such as API gateways, configuration servers, and tools for automatic dependency upgrades. These products continue to run in production with regular security patches and dependency updates.

I completed XCS229 Machine Learning at Stanford University as part of an AI Professional Program to expand my skills.

I’m part of the Spring Engineering team at Broadcom after the VMware and Pivotal acquisitions. We are a fully remote team building products and frameworks to help people build more resilient architectures by providing secure, highly available products with platform-specific features. We practice XP, TDD, CI/CD, follow SRE disciplines, and contribute to and maintain several OSS projects.

I have been an instructor at O’Reilly, reviewed books from Manning Publications, and have spoken at major conferences, such as the largest software conference in Europe and others with thousands of attendees.

I have done 1:1 mentoring for underrepresented minorities to help them develop their skills and succeed in the industry.

I worked as an XP consultant on a variety of projects and products, including banking and booking systems and IoT platforms, and was part of the Cloud Foundry OSS team, one of the largest distributed teams that practised eXtreme Programming.

I was the technical co-founder of several startups:

• Duel.fm — Gamified music discovery platform. Accepted into LaunchHouse accelerator (Ohio). Shut down after pivoting to an unsatisfactory product and facing strong competition.
• ProHealth — Healthcare data security and interoperability platform. Accepted into Bolt accelerator, finalist in multiple startup competitions. Shut down due to customer acquisition challenges before reaching product-market fit.
• Loadness — Performance analytics tools for competitive teams. Achieved profitability but failed to scale effectively.

Drop me an email: albertoimpl AT gmail.com, find me on Twitter: @albertoimpl or on GitHub.

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