Senior Research Engineer · Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Santiago
Scalzadonna
Twenty years of software engineering, ten of them designing and running cloud-native platforms. Today I’m bringing Kubernetes and HPC together for AI at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
01 — about
From front-end pixels
to production platforms.
I’m a senior DevOps and cloud platform engineer. I design, automate and operate cloud-native infrastructure, on Kubernetes and other container platforms, in both public clouds and on-premises.
I started out writing Java EE back ends and front ends, and built data visualizations for telecom, travel and media companies. Those years taught me what developers need from a platform, and now I build those platforms: EKS clusters, Terraform, and CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and Kargo. I care about scalability, security and keeping reliability affordable.
I’ve worked with distributed, cross-functional teams in transportation, automotive, media and SaaS, as well as several United Nations agencies. That work taught me as much about communication and mediation as it did about infrastructure.
Today I’m a Senior Research Engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. I build data platform services and workflows for the BSC AI Factory, where cloud-native practice meets high-performance computing.
02 — experience
Where I’ve been building.
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Oct 2026 — now
Senior Research Engineer
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Data platform services for publishing datasets and models, AI-ready data workflows, Kubernetes–HPC convergence on GPU infrastructure, and Trusted Research Environments (TREs) for the BSC AI Factory.
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2024 — 2026
Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer
Boats Group
Multi-region AWS: EKS, RDS and serverless workloads. Infrastructure as code with Terraform, and CI/CD with GitHub, Jenkins and ArgoCD, with an emphasis on reliability and security hardening.
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2022 — 2024
Platform Engineer
SEAT CODE
Scalable, secure cloud platforms used by many product teams: Kubernetes on CNCF tooling, CI/CD and automation patterns, plus security and cost controls.
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2021 — 2022
Cloud Platform Administrator
United Nations ICC · remote
Cloud-native infrastructure, incident management and governance across public and private clouds, for UN projects ranging from agriculture to cybersecurity.
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2020 — 2021
Cloud Solution Engineer
Logicalis · for CaixaBank
Public cloud governance: visualization, observability and cost tools across AWS, Azure, IBM and Google Cloud, plus coaching junior developers.
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2015 — 2020
DevOps / SRE Engineer
YouBIM · remote
Highly available systems on AWS. CI/CD with Jenkins and Artifactory, and deployment automation with Docker, Ansible and Terraform.
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2007 — 2019
Freelance and earlier engineering roles
Motorola Mobility, Nexius, TradeHelm, WiCom, eSolutions, QPlus and others
Java EE and front-end engineering, data dashboards and visualizations, and e-commerce and site reliability work for clients in the US and EU.
03 — expertise
What I work with.
Cloud & containers
Infrastructure as code & delivery
Reliability & operations
Software, data & AI
Certifications
- DeepLearning.AI Data Engineering Professional
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Information Visualization (NYU)
Education
- Postgrad, AI with Deep LearningUPC School
- Postgrad, Cloud Native ArchitectureUPC School
- Software EngineeringUniversidad Siglo 21
- Systems EngineeringUniversidad Tecnológica Nacional
- Business Administration for SMEsUniversidad Nacional de Córdoba
04 — selected work
Projects I’ve helped build.
Organizations I’ve worked with
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Boats Group
- SEAT CODE
- United Nations
- CaixaBank
- YouBIM
- Motorola
- American Airlines
- Verizon Wireless
- Claro
- TUI Group
- MotoGP