Hector Canto

Working on development and operation of core services and data pipelines, handling pipelines with millions of events per hour and microservices with hundreds of connections per second. High focus on observability and reducing tech debt and code divergence.

Backend Engineer focused on serverless and core services. Helping on architecture decisions, reusability and third party integrations. Team Lead with focus in SW Architecture and Python development, working in core services and integrations

Software developer instructor with focus on Clean Code, Architecture, Software Design, and Docker

- Maintain and evolve a scalable scraping platform over a serverless architecture on AWS - Strong effort in event-oriented architecture and observability tools - Support in best practices, especially testing and technical documentation

In Vintra, I helped my team improve the code for better maintainability and testability, as well as design the next iteration of services. I helped the quality team define and create reproducible environments where to perform different sort of benchmarks, as well and update the existing documentation.

In Blueliv I centered my efforts in maintaining the internal Threat Intelligence platform where our analysts and VIP customers could check and cross-reference a huge amount of gathered and enriched data, all regarding Cybersecurity and Threats. While in Blueliv, I improved my knowledge about Elastic Search, ELK Stack and Celery and acquired deeper knowledge in cybersecurity concepts and measures.

I've joined Worldsensing as Software Engineer to develop an Operational Intelligence plaform for Smart Cities, Civil Engineering, Construction and Mining Industry; as well and maintain solutions for IoT sensors in Parking and Smart Cities. The main projects I worked with were OneMind and FastPrk (see projects section). While in Worldsensing, I increased my knowledge in PostgreSQL, ReactJS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Software Architecture, Message Queues like RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ, tools like Docker or

I've joined Visual Engineering mainly to take lead on several backends connected with Android and iOS apps, providing my expertise in software architecture, video technologies and development best practices. While there, I've also put effort in learning about DevOps strategies and spread awareness in techniques such as Continuous Integration, Infrastructure as Code and deployment automation among others. To do so I had to get deeper into Amazon Web Services, Architecture and REST APIs, in general; and impr

As Senior Developer on myTaste I'm part of two task forces: One of development and maintainance of data mining processes. This task force is strongly supported by testing and monitoring tools for a cluster of data mining machines. Another of research about Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence where we investigate and develop tools and applications to improve the data mining process with automation and human interfacing. October 2014 - May 2015 · 6 months Joining the Product Ownership team on myTas

At Teltek I've worked mainly on the development of the Galicaster project, starting from the prototyping stages, and the deployment of the Campus do Mar capture system on the University of Vigo based on Galicaster, Opencast Matterhorn, Pumukit and Paella Player. April 2013- September2013 · 6 months As Fullstack Desktop developer at Teltek I've leaded the development and maintenance of the Galicaster project. Galicaster is a lecture capture software based on open technologies able to record several

As an intern inf the Communication Department of the University of Vigo I've worked as journalist for the Press Office, liasson with the regional secondary school centers and PR in several events. I've participed in serveral promoting campaigns atracting future students and giving information or the University services and cultural events to the current alumni. Of this period I'm very happy with the trust given by the head of the department as well as enjoy the opportunity helping future students choosing t

MSC in Telecommunication Engeneering with specialization in Telematics. Master Thesis about Galicaster, with honorable mention, a multistream recording software, elaborated off-campus in the company Teltek Video Research. Part time worker since 2007 Sabbatical in 2012