Organization Team
Txetxu Velayos
CEO STR Sistemas
Apassionated by startups ecosystem and technology my day by day is a mix between business management and technical work. I founded STR Sistemas many years ago where we manage infra and systems based on Linux and cloud. Automation, databases, servers, Kubernetes, scaling and high availability are our natural environments.
Xavi Portilla
Infra Team Lead @voiceflowHQ
Xavier was born in Valencia, but currently living in Madrid. He has over 7 years of experience. He focuses on Cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, Q&A, microservices, Conversational AI and mentoring startups thanks to the Google For Startups Program. He is an organizer of GDG Madrid, DevopsDays Madrid and the Alexa community in Spanish. In his spare time, he enjoys music, beer, and friends. Author of the book "The Alexa Revolution". He has been recognized as a GitHub Star, Alexa Champion, GoogleDeveloper Expert & Google Cloud Champion Innovator in ML, Ambassador Labs Advocate, AWS Community Builder, and Azure Content Hero.
Alberto Díaz
CTIO Encamina
He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT Industry, all of them working with Microsoft technologies. He is currently Chief Technology Innovation Officer at ENCAMINA, leading the development of software with Microsoft technology, and a member of the Management team.
Sergio Hernández
Head of API at Nationale Nederlanden
Technical Engineer in Computer Science from the Complutense University of Madrid. Head of API, He define and improve the work methodology and monitor the status of the projects. He also has extensive experience leading projects as a Team Leader, software project development in Microsoft cloud environments on Azure and SharePoint 365.
Antonio Peña
Senior SRE Nexthink
Software engineer, with more than ten years experience in Open Source and system administration (GNU/Linux & FreeBSD), three years on IT management and two years on IT project management. With advanced knowledge on Open Source and Unix related technologies.
Juan Vicente Herrera
Cloud Architect en Red Hat
Computer engineer and coordinator of the Madrid Devops group, his professional career has been developed mostly in the world of administration and systems architecture in all types of companies such as BBVA, Colt Telecom, Devo(Logtrust), Orange and currently in Red Hat. Specializing in automation, immutable infrastructure, containers, hardening and cloud computing, in his career as a teacher he has years of experience in the subject of Cloud computing and in various subjects on automation and containers.
Christian Meléndez
Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect AWS
Christian Melendez is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect for AWS. Christian helps customers to build fault-tolerant, elastic, reliable, and cost optimized workloads in AWS. He’s passionate about containers, Kubernetes, programming, and helping tech communities to level up their knowledge in tech. Before joining AWS, he spent 17 years working in different startups and enterprise companies to build modern solutions that are still used by many people today. He’s an active public speaker and has participated in events and conferences like AWS re:Ivent, AWS Madrid Summit, Kubernetes Community Days, and many other local meetups around the world.
