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 and efficiency for 1K+ engineers.
SKILLS Generative Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure and solutions, applied Generative Multi-modal Models
Systems: Architecture, performance, automation, monitoring, load balancing, capacity, and data integrity
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 70+ 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.
CERTIFICATES Professional Certificate on Generative Artificial Intelligence Engineering — IBM, 2024
Professional Certificate on Artificial Intelligence Development — IBM, 2024
Professional Certificate on Cybersecurity — Google, 2024
Professional Certificate on Security — University of Salamanca, 2011
Professional Certificate on User Experience Design — Google, 2024
Harmonized Amateur Radio Exam Certificate — Ofcom, 2025
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
HIGHLIGHTS Generative Artificial Intelligence
• Developed a set of ComfyUI nodes for inpainting with generative models, automating complex image
manipulation workflows and improving prompt adherence and output quality.
Achieved 260K downloads and 800 GitHub stars.
Distributed Systems
• Published an article on best practices for capacity management.
• Published talks on capacity management, Google production environment, and the Paxos algorithm.
Achieved 200K views combined.
Programming Languages
• Designed and developed lexical analyzers, parsers, and a model compiler with ambiguity support.
• Developed a Java bytecode similarity detector and a manifest-based run-time subclass finder.
The University of Granada applied it and identified plagiarized programming assignments.
People Management
• Co-authored a chapter on team overload for The Site Reliability Workbook published by O’Reilly.
Video Game Development
• Developed a web-based multiplayer videogame, maintained and ran it from 2006 to 2013.
Achieved 10K monthly active users.
• Developed a rogue-like videogame in JavaScript.
• Developed a shooter videogame in C for the Game Boy Advance console.
Amateur Radio
• Developed a practice Morse code keyer application using generative artificial intelligence.
• Received a live signal from an astronaut in the International Space Station.
Literature
• Authored and illustrated Spanish books for children leveraging generative artificial intelligence.
Achieved 20K downloads combined and 800 reviews with an average rating of 4.3/5.
Music
• Composed, recorded, and produced several indie rock, synthesizer, and piano albums.
Achieved 20K streams and 2K monthy listeners.
• Produced several alternative rock albums leveraging generative artificial intelligence.
Achieved 30K streams and 5K monthly listeners.
