Alain Lopez
CTO
Large-scale systems architecture
Cloud · AI
Barcelona
Systems Impact
- Migration of monolithic architectures to microservices in production
- Significant performance improvement in web platforms and B2B APIs
- Reduction of cloud and provider costs through architectural decisions
- Design of systems capable of scaling in high-traffic environments
- Projects led from zero to production with real business impact
Architecture
- Simplicity is a requirement, not a preference
- Caching is more important than scaling infrastructure
- Systems must be designed for production from day one
- Avoid unnecessary complexity in distributed systems
- Architecture defines the cost, not the later optimization
Technical Leadership
- Leadership of multidisciplinary teams
- Coordination across engineering, product, UX, and business
- End-to-end delivery: from idea to production
- Technical decision-making with direct business impact
- Alignment between delivery speed and technical quality
AI in Production
- Continuous use of AI in development for more than 2 years
- Productivity and quality improvement in technical teams
- AI integration in real workflows, not just experiments
- Application in classification, scoring, and process automation
Labs
- Vibe Design
- AI-assisted design exploration
- Translation of ideas into consistent design systems
- Integration between design and frontend architecture
- Automation of development processes
- Agents for code, cost, and performance analysis