Luis Quesada
Senior Engineering Manager
www.luisquesada.com
Contact via linkedin.com/in/luisquesadatorres
SUMMARY 25+ years coding, 20+ years managing systems, 10+ years in industry, and 6+ 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
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 — Engineering Manager (L7)
• Improved the performance of high-throughput pipelines by 600x. Award: Performance Excellence
• Expanded the power of expression of a product to cover new user journeys with no engineering effort
Cloud Artificial Intelligence, Site Reliability Engineering — Engineering Manager (L5 → L6 → L7)
• Revamped five production areas across >1k engineers: capacity, monitoring, rollouts, data integrity,
and frameworks. Awards: Cloud + Core + Google Tech Impact, Perfy, and 2x Tech Debt Buster
• Productionized three large Cloud Artificial Intelligence products and enabled their launch
Datacenter Software, Site Reliability Engineering — Technical Leader/Engineering Manager (L5)
• Sped up efforts to revamp critical datacenter systems and landed them one year ahead of time
Apps Storage, Site Reliability Engineering — Technical Leader (L4 → L5)
• Developed capacity management models for products with >1B users. Award: Feats of Engineering
University of Granada, 2010 – 2014
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence — Fellow, University Lecturer in Training
• Researched on model-based parsers and 3D motion tracking
• Directed a Master Thesis on music-prototyping languages. Award: Best Thesis
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: First of Class
Master of Science, Computer Science. GPA 9.2/10. Awards: First of Class, National Award, Best Thesis
Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems Engineering. GPA 8.7/10. Award: First of Class
PUBLICATIONS Team Management
• Published a book chapter on managing team overload
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
Generative Artificial Intelligence
• Developed Stable Diffusion ComfyUI nodes for prompt combination and inpainting
Computer Vision
• Developed a 3D motion tracking solution that works on a single camera
Language Processors
• Developed lexical analyzers, parsers, and a model specification library with ambiguity support
• Designed a domain-specific language for music prototyping
• Developed a Java bytecode similarity detector
Videogames
• Developed a rogue-like videogame in JavaScript with no frameworks
• Developed a web-based multiplayer videogame in PHP+MySQL, with 10K+ players in the ’00s
• 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
Language Learning Resources
• Published three Spanish short story books for children
• Published a dictionary across five languages
Music
• Published one and two indie rock albums, one and two synth albums, and one and two piano albums
