Luis Quesada
Senior Engineering Manager
www.luisquesada.com | github.com/lquesada
Contact via linkedin.com/in/luisquesadatorres
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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 300+ 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 three flagship products.
• Saved $XXXM+ in computing resources and improved the reliability of 50+ products by redefining
capacity management, monitoring, rollouts, data integrity, and frameworks across 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 400K downloads and 880 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 210K 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 for the Game Boy Advance console in C.
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 peaked at 2K monthy listeners.
• Produced several alternative rock albums leveraging generative artificial intelligence.
Achieved 35K streams and peaked at 5K monthly listeners.
