About

Roberto Pérez Alcolea is an accomplished Senior Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience in the industry. His areas of expertise include microservices, cloud computing, developer productivity, and continuous delivery. Roberto is a self-motivated and detail-oriented professional who is passionate about solving unique and challenging problems. Currently, Roberto is working as a Senior Software Engineer in the JVM Ecosystem team at Netflix. In this role, he is responsible for providing tools, automation, and guidance to colleagues for dependency management, building, packaging, and publishing JVM-based libraries and applications. The team supports around 3,000 git repositories with hundreds of engineers producing around 9,000 artifacts per day. Roberto's work involves automating the process of ensuring that the right version of a given dependency is used across all projects and that no one is using an OSS library with a security vulnerability. Prior to joining Netflix, Roberto worked at Target as a Lead Software Engineer for the Streaming Platform and Digital teams. In these roles, he designed and built new platforms that enabled teams to create distributable caches and improve experiences for Target guests. Roberto's work involved using cutting-edge technologies such as Ratpack, Spring Boot, Netflix Hollow, Gradle, Nebula, Hystrix, Akka Streams, Kafka Streams, Docker, Kubernetes, Java, Groovy, and Kotlin. Roberto holds a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Cristóbal Colón and a Master's degree in Software Engineering from UPAEP. He has also completed courses in functional programming principles in Scala on Coursera. Overall, Roberto is a skilled Software Engineer with a strong background in Spring, Kafka, Java, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, Web, Mobile, MongoDB, and UI Backend. His experience and expertise make him an asset to any team.