Luis Quesada

Senior Engineering Manager

www.luisquesada.com

Contact via linkedin.com/in/luisquesadatorres

SUMMARY 26+ years coding, 21+ years managing systems, 11+ years in industry, and 7+ years managing people.

Technical expertise in distributed systems and user-facing products, strategic vision, and can-do attitude.

I drive fast, impactful solutions, tackling complex problems with wide consensus and innovation.

SKILLS Systems: Architecture, performance, automation, monitoring, load balancing, capacity, and data integrity.

Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure and solutions, applied Generative Multi-modal Models.

• Extended an internal product with generalization and a customization framework to streamline

onboarding of new use cases with limited engineering effort. Award: Engineering Excellence

• Developed infrastructure to run Large Language Models and integrated them to significantly increase

the expressiveness of existing tooling. Award: 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,

solution and integrating it in the rollout with push-on-green capabilities.

• Responsible for the resource provisioning and capacity management of the storage backends of

products with >1B external users. Developed, tested, and deployed a forecasting and provisioning

model that led to significant resource savings and increased reliability.

• Led company-wide migration to a new storage service. Award: Feats of Engineering

• Responded to time-critical user-facing outages as part of deeply technical on-call responsibilities.

• Planned and performed high-risk high-complexity operations on live systems without downtime.

ACADEMIA University of Granada, 2010 – 2014

Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence — Research Fellow

• Developed an on-the-fly compiler of compilers that takes as input a model consisting of Java classes

• Taught courses on Knowledge Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Models.

• Mentored two students doing software engineering internships at software companies.

Master in Research, Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems. GPA 9.3/10.

• Developed lexical analyzers and parsers with ambiguity support for model-driven data mining.

Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Engineering. GPA 8.7/10. Award: First of Class

Master of Science, Computer Science. GPA 9.2/10. Awards: First of Class, National Award, Honors

• Developed a Java code similarity detector that applies heuristics and aggregation at bytecode level

and applied it to successfully identify plagiarised Java code. Award: Best Thesis

Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems Engineering. GPA 8.7/10. Award: First of Class

• Introduction to Auditing of Information Systems — University of Salamanca, 2010

• Security of Networked Information Systems — University of Granada, 2010

User Experience

• Professional Certificate on User Experience Design — Coursera / Google, 2024

Music

• Modern Musician Specialization — Coursera / 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

• Published a tech talk and an article on capacity management

Computer Vision

• Designed and developed a 3D motion tracking solution that works on a single camera

Language Processors

• Designed and developed lexical analyzers, parsers, and a model compilers with ambiguity support

• Designed and developed parallel finite state machines for fast ambiguity-supporting lexical analysis

• Designed a domain-specific language for music prototyping

Reverse Engineering

• Decompiled a Java splicer and extended it with a command-line interface

• Developed a Java bytecode similarity detector

• Developed a manifest-based run-time subclass finder for Java

• Developed an arcade maze videogame in Java

• Developed a physics engine and 3D world videogame prototype in Java

• Developed a top-down shooter videogame in GameMaker

• Developed a shooter videogame in C for the Game Boy Advance console

• Developed a dungeon videogame prototype in Java with custom physics and graphic engines

• Developed a physics engine and basic taxonomy in GameMaker

• Developed a dungeon videogame prototype in Go with custom physics and inventory engines

• Developed a mini-game for the Voxatron virtual voxel-based console

• Proposed hardware for voxel-based 3D object modeling

Team Management

• Produced indie rock albums: Crossing Lines and Years Away

• Produced synthesizer albums: Touching Point and Last Transmission

• Produced piano albums: Simple Piano and Transitions on Piano

• Produced several alternative rock albums using generative artificial intelligence.