Borja Lafuente Romero

About Me

MSc (Engineer's Degree) in Computer Science at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). Leading dev teams in fast-paced, continuously changing environments. I have advocated for true continuous deployment, and native cloud applications since I started my endeavours at Amazon. Running state of the art machine learning models at the largest scale on Earth.

Alumnus of the Intelligent Systems & Knowledge Engineering Group, School of Computer Science of the Technical University of Madrid.

Work Experience

Cloud Architect & Tech Lead

TMC

2023 - Present

Spain (Remote)

Verisure Securitas Direct: Shifting to the cloud the infrastructure that collects multimedia from millions of connected IoT devices, for the leader of home and business alarm systems in Europe and Latin America.
Skills: Hybrid Cloud, AWS, IoT
Inditex – Corporate Sustainability: Leading a dev team in a new project for Inditex. Creating a culture, and defining mechanisms to drive a positive environmental and social impact, at the world leader in the fashion industry.
Skills: Leadership, Mentoring, Microservices, Java, Spring, Azure

Software Development Engineer II

Amazon

2017 - 2023

Vancouver, Canada

Brand Protection – Customer Trust and Partner Support: Delivering state of the art deep learning computer vision solutions to prevent Intellectual Property abuse at the scale of the largest online catalog in the world. My duties ranged from designing and developing the system, collaborating closely with scientists to run ML models in production, and managing cloud infrastructure (~1MM/y budget), to mentoring new team members.
Skills: AWS, Machine Learning, ML Ops, Serverless, Microservices, Python, Java, Continuous Deployment

Software Architect

Ericsson

2013 - 2017

Málaga, Spain

Ericsson Design & Optimization Services Delivery Platform: Leading the design of the next generation mobile network customer experience management software for mobile network operators.
Skills: Java, Big Data, SaaS, Cloud, Continuous Delivery, User Experience

Software Engineer

Ericsson

2012 - 2013

Malaga, Spain

Ericsson Multi-Vendor Radio Access Network Analyzer: Developing the leading tool in mobile network automatic analysis and troubleshooting.
Skills: C++, Java, Continuous Integration

Research Assistant, Software Engineer

I&K Group, Polytechnic University of Madrid

2007 - 2012

Madrid, Spain

2010-2012: EADS Cassidian: Scalable architecture for behavioural models in air defence missions.
2009-2010: Ministry of Environment of Spain: Automated Hydrographical Vigilance.
2007-2009: EADS Cassidian: Virtual scenes for behavioural analysis in air defence missions.

Education

Engineer's Degree (MSc) in Computer Science

2003 - 2011

Faculty of Informatics, Technical University of Madrid (UPM)

Thesis: "Scenelab Editor, a mission editor for air defence scenario simulation"

Professional Certifications

"Advanced Architecting on AWS"

2020

Amazon Web Services

"Architecting on AWS"

2020

Amazon Web Services

"Building Enterprise Applications with Spring"

2014

Pivotal Software

"Architect Enterprise Applications with Java EE" Ed1 PRV

2013

Oracle University, Oracle Corporation

"Advanced Java. Internet applications development."

2011

Faculty of Informatics, UPM, Madrid

"Graphic engines in real-time 3D virtual environments."

2005

Faculty of Informatics, UPM, Madrid

Skills & Technologies

Methodologies

Agile (Scrum, Kanban) CMMI

Programming

Test Driven Development OOP Event Processing Java Python Scala C++ C PHP Perl Ada Haskell Bash

Big Data

S3 Athena Redshift Hadoop HDFS Spark Hbase Hive

Web Development

Spring J2EE HTML Javascript React Angular GWT

Cloud / PaaS / IaaS

AWS Azure Docker Microservices Spring Cloud Kubernetes Openstack Openshift

GIS & 3D Graphics

GDAL OGR OpenGL OpenSceneGraph

Databases

DynamoDB Opensearch Solr HBase MySQL PostgreSQL Greenplum