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
• Developed infrastructure and tooling to define complex insights at scale, integrating Large Language
Models, Multi-Modal Models, and hundreds of backends. Adopted by 200+ analysts and engineers.
Awards: Engineering + Feature + Feature Excellence
Cloud Artificial Intelligence, Site Reliability Engineering — Senior Engineering Manager (L5→L7)
• Unblocked $1B+ revenue by leading the productionization and launch of several products.
• Saved $XXXM+ in computing resources and improved the reliability of the Google Cloud Artificial
Intelligence portfolio by redefining capacity planning, monitoring and SLOs, rollouts, data integrity,
and frameworks across an organization that consisted of 1K+ engineers. Awards: Cloud + Core +
Google Tech Impact, Perfy, Tech Debt Busters, Tech Debt Busters
Datacenter Software, Site Reliability Engineering — Technical Leader/Engineering Manager (L5)
• Revamped critical datacenter systems, delivering one year ahead of plan.
Apps Storage, Site Reliability Engineering — Senior Software Engineer, Technical Leader (L4→L5)
• Saved $XXXM+ in computing resources by deploying capacity models for products with 1B+ users.
• 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 340K downloads and 860 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 Morse code keyer practice 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.
