Alvaro Larraya

Slashed GCP infrastructure costs by +€50K/month by redesigning and fine tunin g real time streaming queries, boosting overall system performance. Constructed secure cloud workflows for the internal contract management pla tform, integrating highly sensitive B2B pricing, dea dlines, and personnel records. Championed Infrastructure as Code to autonomously provision environments like dev, QA, UAT or prod, and establish highly reliable continuous delivery processes. Aligned with Data Owners to enforce rigorous authentication mechanisms and credential vaults, safeguarding confidential enterprise assets.

Engineered robust, end-to-end ELT pipelines using massive datasets from diverse sources (Google Analytics, Google Ads, Facebook Ads) into BigQuery. Architected scalable API call structures, optimized SQL transformations, and managed complex data orchestration for enterprise clients (Barceló Hotel Group, Mutua Madrileña, Ivirma). Partnered directly with business stakeholders to answer complex questions through data. Translated raw datasets into high quality Looker Studio reports, uncovering actionable insights that profoundly improved business understanding and strategic decision making. Demonstrated strong technical ownership by enforcing strict security protocols and secret management. Maintained exceptionally high code quality standards by applying Test Driven Development (TDD) across projects. Spearheaded the development of an extensive Python API integrated with ChatGPT to streamline internal knowledge retrieval. Built scalable architectures relying on first principles reasoning, and implemented fully automated CI/CD pipelines for seamless testing, documentation, and deployment.