I design systems that don't crash
and teams that enjoy scaling them.
Engineering Leader, maker, explorer of absurd ideas and beautiful solutions
About Me
Hi, I'm Antonio. I've been building digital products that people actually use (and enjoy using) for over a decade. My specialty is startups with obscene traffic - those handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second without breaking a sweat. I've evolved from debugging at 3am with cold pizza to leading teams that solve complex problems while enjoying decent coffee. I'm passionate about designing architectures that scale without drama, optimizing queries that would make a veteran DBA cry, and building systems that sleep peacefully while I do too.
As a technical leader and serial entrepreneur, my work goes beyond code: it's about creating engineering cultures where technical excellence and team well-being go hand in hand. I've been co-founder of startups that survived (and some that didn't), consultant for companies that needed to scale yesterday, and creator of I.T. Secrets Exposed. I've learned that the world's best code is useless if the team maintaining it is burned out, and that a motivated team can work magic with the simplest tools. I firmly believe that the best products are born from teams that enjoy what they do, laugh at their own bugs, and celebrate successful deploys.
In my spare time, I work as a certified Roomba Shepherd, making sure no autonomous vacuum gets lost under the couch or decides to explore the outside world. I also pursue the perfect espresso (18g in, 36g out, 25-30s) - a quest as complex as optimizing a Kubernetes cluster but with more immediate and drinkable results. I love scale modeling (building small things relaxes me after building large systems), basketball (where my shooting percentage is better than my code coverage), guitar (chords are like design patterns, but more fun), and having a cold beer in good company while debating tabs vs spaces (spaces, obviously).
My Superpowers
Infrastructure & SRE
Architectures that sleep peacefully at 3am
Systems Thinking
I see the forest without losing sight of each tree
Scalability & Performance
I optimize every last byte (when it matters)
Impactful Communication
I translate between code and human fluently
Rapid Experimentation
Fail fast, learn faster, ship fastest
Roomba Shepherd
I guide lost vacuums to salvation (and the charging base)
Debugging Ninja
I find bugs in production before they exist
Espresso Master
18g in, 36g out, 25-30s. Perfection has a formula
Artisan Pizzaiolo
Slow fermentation, 48h rest, exceptional results
My Superpower Stack
The tools and skills I use to turn coffee into scalable solutions
Infrastructure & SRE
Backend & DevOps
Leadership & Management
Passions & Hobbies
I've had the pleasure of working with
VisualizeUs
Co-founder
Freepik
DCTO
Tulotero
Systems Architect
Todocoleccion
Architecture Consultant
Videvo
DevOps Consultant
EyeEm
SRE Engineer
Centraldereservas
Tech Lead
Resultados de Fútbol
DevOps Engineer
Chicfy
Consultant
Santander
Systems Engineer
Iberia
DevOps Consultant
Flaticon
SRE
My experience has taught me that the difference between a good web developer and an exceptional one lies in understanding the complete environment, from code to infrastructure.
What I'm doing now
Updated on July 2025
Deputy CTO at Freepik
Leading technical transformation and scaling the engineering team
Building a SQL optimization SaaS
Because slow queries literally keep me up at night
Perfecting my espresso
Seeking the perfect shot without falling into the infinite gear rabbit hole
Learning to make pizza with biga
Slow fermentation is the new continuous deployment
Playing RDR2
Exploring the wild west when I'm not debugging
Paddle Surfing
Keeping balance on water better than in production
Pilates (very recently)
Discovering muscles I didn't know I had, like bugs in legacy code
This page is inspired by the /now
Projects
Laravel Wave Boilerplate
Open SourceBoilerplate with Make commands to start a project from scratch with Laravel and/or Wave
YARAG
In developmentYet Another RAG Agent - Retrieval Augmented Generation system
Popofiler
Open SourceXdebug + Webgrind profiling in Kubernetes for performance optimization
MeetingMuncher
CompletedExtracts audio from MP4 videos and uses OpenAI for transcription, key points, and summaries
Neovim Config
ActiveMy personal Neovim configuration optimized for development
What they say about me
I've been lucky to work with amazing people who have trusted me
"I've known Antonio since college, and had the pleasure of working very closely with him as my partner in VisualizeUs for more than 5 years. He has been a key and invaluable player in the growth and sustainability of the project. He has a really deep knowledge of what it takes to make a project faster, solid and responsive. During all this years I've seen him grew from professional to expert and truth is nowadays he's one of the best web operations engineers out there that I know."
Victor Espigares
Product. Growth. Business
Co-founder de VisualizeUs
"Dejando a un lado la gran amistad que nos une desde la Universidad, Antonio es uno de los mejores ingenieros informáticos que conozco. A su especialización y alto conocimiento como devoperator, hay que sumar su enorme capacidad de programación en distintos lenguajes, avanzados conocimientos de diseño y maquetación, y una gran creatividad y liderazgo. Es sin duda todo un desarrollador full-stack."
Alejandro Gómez Martínez
CTO en Freepik Company
Compañero desde la Universidad
"Impecable en su trabajo como responsable de sistemas en Uptodown durante cinco años. Uno de los mejores ingenieros en su sector con amplia experiencia en la gestión de proyectos online que requieren un trabajo intensivo de optimización. Sobresaliente en tareas de administración de sistemas, programación y en concreto en el ámbito de la seguridad."
Luis Hernández Garrido
Co-founder and CEO
Uptodown
"¡Un mago de los servidores! Tuve el placer de trabajar con Antonio durante un año en nuestra empresa. Sin duda es uno de los mejores Administradores de sistemas que conozco en Málaga que tengan suficientes conocimientos para gestionar webs con alta demanda."
Alejandro Sánchez Blanes
Co-Founder
Freepik Company
"Antonio consiguió unos resultados excelentes para la empresa y nos ayudó a crecer gracias a su experiencia como Developer/Operator, es una persona muy proactiva y presta mucho atención a los detalles."
Manuel Heredia
Founder
Resultados de Fútbol / BeSoccer
"Entregado, eficaz y proactivo. Capaz de resolver cualquier tarea tanto de programación como de administración de sistema. Gran parte de mis conocimientos de sistemas los aprendí junto a él en los años que compartimos en Uptodown. Su formación, aptitud y forma de ser hacen que sea un gran compañero de trabajo."
Pepe Domínguez Fernández
Co-founder & CTO
Uptodown
"El trato y los resultados recibidos por Antonio fueron impecables. Además de la rapidez con la que solucionó nuestras dudas y problemas de rendimiento y escalabilidad en nuestros servidores, su experiencia como Developer Operator nos hizo ahorrar mucho tiempo y dinero."
Antonio Jesús Alba Boza
Principal Software Developer
ITRS Group