Luis Quesada
Senior Engineering Manager
www.luisquesada.com | github.com/lquesada
Contact via linkedin.com/in/luisquesadatorres
SUMMARY Engineering leader with expertise in defining and executing technical strategy, with a proven track record
of building top-performing organizations. Led 70+ engineers to revamp five production areas across 50+
products, boosting engineering velocity and system reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability.
SKILLS Systems: Architecture, performance, automation, monitoring, load balancing, capacity, and data integrity
Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure and solutions, applied Generative Multi-modal Models
Computer Languages: Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Bash shell script, and SQL
People: Organization design, career development, team health, coaching, presentation, and negotiation
Languages: Spanish (Native), English (C2), German (B2), Swiss German (B1), and Esperanto (B1)
EXPERIENCE Google, 2014 – currently
YouTube Infrastructure, Software Engineering — Senior Engineering Manager (L7)
• Improved the performance of high-throughput pipelines by 1000x. Award: Performance Excellence
• Built a scalable platform that integrates 100+ backends and Large Language Models, enabling rapid
development of complex insights. Awards: Engineering + Feature + Feature Excellence
Cloud Artificial Intelligence, Site Reliability Engineering — Senior Engineering Manager (L5→L7)
• Revamped capacity, monitoring, rollouts, data integrity, and frameworks across the entire developer
organization, garnering top-down support, influencing the work of 50+ engineers, and leading the
delivery, which improved the velocity, efficiency, and reliability of tens of products and 1K+ engineers.
Awards: Cloud + Core + Google Tech Impact, Perfy, Tech Debt Busters, Tech Debt Busters
• Led the productionization of three large Cloud Artificial Intelligence products across reliability,
scalability, security, and process requirements, and enabled their launch.
Datacenter Software, Site Reliability Engineering — Technical Leader/Engineering Manager (L5)
• Sped up a project to revamp critical datacenter systems and landed it one year ahead of time.
• Troubleshot and addressed incidents with company-wide impact as part of on-call responsibilities.
Apps Storage, Site Reliability Engineering — Technical Leader (L4→L5)
• Developed capacity models for products with 1B+ users and delivered significant resource savings.
• Responded to user-facing outages and performed complex operations without downtime while on-call.
• Led the company-wide migration to a new storage service. Award: Feats of Engineering
University of Granada, 2010 – 2014
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence — Research Fellow
• Researched compilers and directed a Thesis on music prototyping languages. Award: Best Thesis.
• Researched 3-degree-of-freedom motion tracking techniques with a single low-budget camera.
STUDIES University of Granada, 2004 – 2010
Master in Research, Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems. GPA 9.3/10.
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Engineering. GPA 8.7/10. Award: 1st in Class.
Master of Science, Computer Science. GPA 9.2/10. Awards: 1st in Class, National Award, Best Thesis.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems Engineering. GPA 8.7/10. Award: 1st in Class.
INTERESTS Generative Artificial Intelligence
• Professional Certificate on Generative Artificial Intelligence Engineering — IBM, 2024
• Professional Certificate on Artificial Intelligence Development — IBM, 2024
• Developed ComfyUI nodes for inpainting, interactive user interface, and prompt combination.
• Fine-tuned models by training LoRA adapters with a dataset of pictures of myself.
• Authored and illustrated Spanish books for children leveraging generative artificial intelligence.
• Produced several alternative rock albums leveraging generative artificial intelligence.
Distributed Systems
• Published a tech talk and an article on capacity management.
• Published a tech talk on Google’s production environment.
• Published a tech talk on the Paxos algorithm.
Cybersecurity
• Professional Certificate on Cybersecurity — Google, 2024
• Professional Certificate on Security — University of Salamanca, 2011
Computer Vision
• Designed and developed a 3D motion tracking solution that works on a single camera.
• Proposed hardware for voxel-based 3D object modeling.
Programming Languages
• Designed and developed lexical analyzers, parsers, and a model compiler with ambiguity support.
• Designed and developed parallel finite state machines for fast ambiguity-supporting lexical analysis.
• Designed a domain-specific language for music prototyping.
• Decompiled a Java splicer and extended it with a command-line interface.
• Developed a Java bytecode similarity detector and a manifest-based run-time subclass finder.
People Management
• Co-authored a book chapter on managing team overload.
User Experience
• Professional Certificate on User Experience Design — Google, 2024
Video Game Development
• Developed a web-based multiplayer videogame in PHP+MySQL, with 10K+ players in the 2000s.
• Developed a shooter videogame in C for the Game Boy Advance console.
• Developed a rogue-like videogame in JavaScript.
• Developed a physics engine and 3D world videogame prototype in Java.
• Developed a dungeon videogame prototype in Java with custom physics and graphic engines.
• Developed a dungeon videogame prototype in Go with custom physics and inventory engines.
Amateur Radio
• Harmonized Amateur Radio Exam Certificate — Ofcom, 2025
• Developed a practice Morse code keyer application.
Music
• Modern Musician Specialization — Berklee College of Music, 2014
• Grade 5 Music Theory — The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, 2013
• Grade 4 Singing — The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, 2013
• Composed, recoded, and produced several indie rock, synthesizer, and piano albums.
