About

Nacho Cougil is a highly skilled Senior Java Software Engineer and Java Champion with over 13 years of relevant experience in the IT industry. He is the founder of the Barcelona Java Users Group (BarcelonaJUG) and co-founder of the Java & JVM Barcelona Conference (JBCNConf). Nacho is a public speaker who is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others and learning from them. Throughout his career, Nacho has worked in various roles in the IT world, including developer, team leader, project manager, and CTO. He has worked in companies across different sectors, such as energy, e-commerce, startups, technology consultancy, and software monitoring. Nacho has strong analytical and design skills, and he is experienced in leading teams and managing software projects. Nacho's main goal is to improve functional and technical key concepts in high-availability enterprise online systems. He is always asking himself, "how does it work" and "how can we improve it?" Nacho is passionate about researching innovative projects that make him feel excited and satisfied. Nacho loves to write clean code and is passionate about eXtreme Programming techniques like unit testing, TDD, refactoring, and pair programming. He values simplicity, respect, and communication, among others. Nacho is currently working as a Senior Java Software Engineer at dynatrace. Nacho has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and a Technical Engineer degree in Computer Science (Management specialty) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He has a strong TechStack that includes Java, Software Engineering, Backend, Senior Software Engineering, test, Research Scientist, qa, and Frontend. In summary, Nacho Cougil is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Java Software Engineer and Java Champion who is passionate about sharing his knowledge and learning from others. He has worked in various roles in the IT industry and has strong analytical and design skills. Nacho is always looking for ways to improve functional and technical key concepts in high-availability enterprise online systems.