Carlos González Recio

Platform & Developer Experience Engineer

Platform and developer experience engineer with 8+ years across frontend, backend and infrastructure. Currently at Cabify building internal tooling and standardizing CI/CD pipelines across ~25 engineering teams to reduce friction between writing code and shipping to production.

Experience

Platform Engineer

Jun 2022

Cabify

Built and evolved the IDP using Backstage, including a scorecard system to surface component health — tracking dependency freshness, contribution guidelines, SLO definitions and documentation coverage.
Built an internal API scaffolding tool supporting REST (OpenAPI/Swagger) and gRPC, generating typed clients and server boilerplate in Go and Elixir — reducing service bootstrap time from hours to minutes.
Led the company-wide CI/CD standardization initiative: a GitLab CI abstraction layer that shields teams from Bash scripting and low-level configuration details.
Maintained event-driven integrations with NATS and Google Pub/Sub over Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure.

Fullstack & Backend Developer

Apr 2018 - Jun 2022

Kairós Digital Solutions, S.L.

Go serverless development on AWS Lambda for Divilo, a B2C fintech app (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS).
Built Angular frontend and Node.js microservices for Santander Universidades and Universia across Latin America, with Kafka-based event-driven integrations and Kubernetes deployments.

Skills

Developer Experience & Tooling

Backstage, IDP, Internal tooling, API scaffolding, OpenAPI, gRPC, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CI/CD

Cloud & Infrastructure

Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud

Backend Development

Go, Elixir, Node.js, REST APIs, gRPC, Microservices

Frontend Development

Angular, React, TypeScript

Message Queuing

Kafka, NATS, Google Pub/Sub

Databases

MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB

Education

Universidad de Salamanca

Jan 2014 - Jan 2019

Degree in Computer Science

Languages

Spanish — Native

English — Fluent (CEFR B2)

Interests

Music

Videogames

Hiking