Alejandro Goncalo Alvarez

Overview

Senior Software Engineer at Granite Energy, focused on distributed databases. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 4. Before that: Capgemini and Allianz. Most at home with RocksDB and performance engineering.

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Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Jun 2025 - Present
   Granite Energy · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 26 a week to 4.
   • Wrote the RocksDB service that now handles 34 million requests a day.
   • Grew the storage team from 3 to 39 engineers.
2. Software Engineer

   Mar 2024 - Jun 2025
   Capgemini · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 3.
3. Software Engineer

   Jun 2020 - Nov 2023
   Allianz · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
   • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 328ms to 106ms.
4. Software Engineer

   Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
   Volkswagen Group · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Madrid, Spain
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 13 a week to 4.

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Education

1. Sorbonne University

   Licence, Electrical Engineering
   2013 - 2016