Ángel Gamaza - Senior Engineer | DevOps
My name is Ángel Gamaza and I am a -year-old Senior Engineer and currently Tech Team Leader from Jerez de la Frontera, in Spain.
Experienced designing, building and deploying scalable microservices within the newest versions of the Java ecosystem and the latest Spring Framework stack, including active work with Spring Boot 4.
I operate comfortably at the intersection of Software Engineering and DevOps, having strong experience designing cloud infrastructures on AWS
Senior Soft. Engineer & Tech Team Lead, Knowmad Mood (2025 - Nowadays)
Lead technical decisions for a development team, acting as the bridge between technical execution, architectural design and business needs for the Algeciras Port.
Implementation and maintenance of a highly scalable microservices architecture leveraging an Event-Driven approach (EDA) with Apache Kafka for robust asynchronous communication. In some integrations, we have also used RabbitMQ.
Design of a Back-End ecosystem using the latest Java (23/25) and Spring Boot (up to v4) versions, ensuring standardized API contracts via OpenAPI.
Infrastructure deployment and management on AWS with Docker, using Amazon S3 for the Angular applications and integrating persistence strategies with PostgreSQL.
Senior Soft. Engineer & AWS DevOps, Admiral Group (2019 - 2025)
Led the architecture and development of a large-scale, centralized Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication platform for corporate and third-party applications via OneLogin.
Design and provisioning of a highly available and secure microservices infrastructure on AWS through IaC (CloudFormation). Resources orchestration by ECS Fargate, managing data persistence and caching layers with RDS (PostgreSQL), ElastiCache (Redis) and OpenSearch. Ensured security, compliance and traffic routing protocols using IAM, Application Load Balancers (ALB), Route 53 and Secrets Manager.
Core microservices implementation through multiple Java LTS versions (from 11 up to 23) and architected the Back-End ecosystem to be highly adaptable and scalable, driving modernization efforts and updatingto the latest frameworks, including Spring Boot 3.
Standardized API contracts using the OpenAPI specification and perfomed integrated unit testing throughout the development lifecycle using Spring Boot Test and JUnit 5.
Software developer, atSistemas IT Consultance (2018 - 19)
Enterprise Back-End development and maintenance using Java and Spring ecosystem, implementing data persistence layers with JPA across relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
Engineered custom functionalities and corporate add-ons for the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) using Java and JavaScript, optimizing workflows for high-value clients.
Administered and configured collaboration platforms (Bitbucket, Bamboo), while successfully implementing secure directory integrations using LDAP and LDAPS protocols.
Software Developer, Xerintel Internet Technologies (2016 - 18)
Back-End systems and RESTful APIs implementation using Java and the Spring Framework, ensuring robust connectivity with diverse SQL databases.
Developed and maintained custom web applications and e-commerce platforms (Java, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL) for high-traffic institutional and corporate clients, including Granada C.F., Rayo Vallecano S.A.D. and Bayport.
Administered web infrastructure and server environments, overseeing domain management, DNS routing configurations and hosting deployments.
Software Development Intern, Universidad de Cádiz (2016)
Built a physical server in a university classroom and deployed Proxmox software for virtualization and management of virtual environments.
Provisioned and administered Linux virtual machines to host diverse application servers (Tomcat, Apache, Mule ESB) supporting university coursework.
Additionally, developed Back-End RESTful services in Java and contributed to the initial hardware integration and data collection architecture (Arduino, MQTT) for the university's IoT environmental monitoring platform.
C1 English Certificate, APTIS British Council (2019)
Average C1 score in APTIS British Council test (Not Cambridge titulation).
Capstone Project, Universidad de Cádiz (2018)
Development of a real-time Air Quality monitoring platform using advanced architectural patterns.
Integration of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Complex Event Processing (CEP) using an Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
Connection of geographically dispersed IoT sensors via MQTT, handling continuous data streams and persisting them across relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
Maximum score obtained (Honors diploma).
Computer Software Engineering, Universidad de Cádiz (2011 - 2016)
Specialization in Information Systems.
High School, I.E.S. Almunia (2009 - 11)
Average score: 9.1 (Honors diploma).
Development
Full-stack development, ranging from web design and implementation to building robust RESTful APIs with strong architectural patterns.
Databases
Database design, management and Relational-Object Mapping (ORM), with extensive experience across SQL and NoSQL environments.
Systems
Infrastructure designing, building and management, including IaC (Infrastructure as Code) deployments and remote servers administration.
Atlassian
Management of the complete Atlassian ALM Suite tools, including Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Trello and Bitbucket.
Microservices, EDA, SOA and ESB architectures, aiming always for Clean Architecture and best practices.
Spring Boot and Spring Framework modules including Security, Cloud, Data (JPA, LDAP, Redis, MongoDB), Kafka and AOP.
Maven libraries as OpenAPI, Swagger and Mapstruct.
Unit testing using Spring Boot Test and JUnit5.
Proficiency in Docker, Maven and Git version control.
API design using OpenAPI specifications, including automatic code generation with Maven.
Advanced AWS expertise, highlighting: IAM, CloudFormation, ECS, Route53, RDS, Elasticache and SES.
Management of message queuing systems (Kafka and RabbitMQ).
SQL (Oracle, PostreSQL and MySQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB and MongoDB) and In-Memory (Redis) databases.
Web development experience using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, with basic knowledge of Angular 17.
Experience with IoT platforms and ESB Systems, including delivery of complete end-to-end projects.
Strong preference for LaTeX when creating formal documents.
Vectorial logotypes designing, corporate branding assets, banners, and various graphics using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
As a personal hobby, I have produced and edited videos using Vegas Pro environment.
Native speaker
Born in Spain
Medium - Advanced Level
APTIS C1 Certificate
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