About

Daniel Sobrado is a Solutions Architect and Principal Engineer with over 16 years of experience in the technology industry. He is a curious and self-starter individual who enjoys wearing multiple hats and maintaining involvement in every aspect of the project lifecycle. Daniel is a hands-on problem solver and is comfortable working as a full-stack developer, big data engineer, strategist, and more. Currently, Daniel works as a Specialist (Principal Engineer & Solutions Architect) at First Abu Dhabi Bank, where he is responsible for technical leadership on mission-critical projects. He has defined overall cloud solutions and ongoing development of cloud/data architecture, developed and implemented data strategies, and architected highly scalable, highly concurrent, and low latency systems using technologies such as Azure, ReactJS, Python, Spring Boot, and NGINX. In his past roles at First Abu Dhabi Bank, Daniel served as a Specialist (Data Engineering & Analytics Lead) and Technical Lead. In these roles, he led the team responsible for designing, developing, testing, and implementing the enterprise data lake platform. He also architected and developed large-scale NoSQL solutions for production environments with petabytes of data, and was responsible for designing and implementing strategies, architectures, ingestion, storage, consumption, and delivery processes for complex, large-volume, multi-variate, batch, and real-time data sets used for modeling and data mining purposes. Daniel has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Deusto and an Erasmus degree in Computer Software Engineering from Facultés universitaires 'Notre-Dame de la Paix'. He is well-versed in a variety of technologies and tools, including AWS, Azure, Kafka, Spring Boot, Microservices, Keras, AI, Python, ReactJS, Spark, Scikit, Tensorflow, NoSQL, Hadoop, Java, and Apache Hive. In summary, Daniel Sobrado is a highly skilled and experienced Solutions Architect and Principal Engineer with a broad range of technical expertise. He is a hands-on problem solver who enjoys wearing multiple hats and is comfortable working in a variety of roles.