Luis Quesada
Senior Engineering Manager
www.luisquesada.com
Contact via linkedin.com/in/luisquesadatorres
SUMMARY 25+ years of coding experience, 10+ years of industry experience, and 6+ years of management experience.
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 Languages: Spanish (Native), English (C2), German (B2), Swiss German (B1), and Esperanto (B1)
Systems: Architecture, performance, automation, monitoring, load balancing, capacity, and data integrity
Computer Languages: Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, PHP, shell script, and SQL
People: Organization design, career development, team health, coaching, presentation, and negotiation
EXPERIENCE Google — YouTube Infrastructure, Software Engineering | 2022– now
Senior Engineering Manager (L7)
• Improved the performance of high-throughput internal pipelines with hundreds of dependencies by
100x and the overall user-facing latency by 30x
• Extended the power of expression of an internal system with generic solutions that cover new critical
user journeys with zero additional engineering investment
Google — Cloud Artificial Intelligence, Site Reliability Engineering | 2018–2022
Engineering Manager (L5) → Engineering Manager II (L6) → Senior Engineering Manager (L7)
• Redefined five production areas across >1k engineers: capacity management, monitoring, rollouts,
data integrity, and frameworks
Awards: 2x Tech Debt Buster, Perfy, Cloud Tech Impact, Core Tech Impact, and Google Tech Impact
• Productionized three large Cloud Artificial Intelligence products, enabled the safe onboarding of
preview customers and the general availability launch
Google — Datacenter Software, Site Reliability Engineering | 2017–2018
Technical Leader/Engineering Manager (L5)
• Sped up efforts to revamp critical datacenter systems and landed them one year ahead of time
Google — Apps Storage, Site Reliability Engineering | 2014–2017
Intern → Software Engineer (L4) → Senior Software Engineer (L5) → Technical Leader (L5)
• Developed capacity management models for products with >1B users and saved significant resources
• Planned and executed time-critical deeply technical and risky operations with zero downtime
Awards: Feats of Engineering
Universidad de Granada, Spain — Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence | 2010–2014
Fellow on University Teaching Training
• Researched on model-based parsers and 3D motion tracking
• Directed a Master Thesis on music-prototyping languages and obtained a Best Thesis award