Paula Guijarro
About Paula Guijarro
Paula Guijarro is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Spain, specializing in container technologies and infrastructure as code. She has extensive experience in coaching junior engineers and has contributed to significant improvements in API performance during her career.
Current Role at Xata
Paula Guijarro serves as a Senior Platform Engineer at Xata.io, a position she has held since 2022. In this role, she focuses on eliminating toil through automation and specializes in container technologies and infrastructure as code. She has developed tools to support high-availability infrastructures, enhancing the overall efficiency and reliability of the platform.
Previous Work Experience
Prior to her current role, Paula worked at various organizations in different capacities. She was a Software Engineer (L2) at Twilio from 2020 to 2022 and served as a Site Reliability Engineer (L3) at the same company for 8 months in 2022. She also held positions at ING as a Technical Product Owner and Site Reliability Engineer, and worked at Paradigma Digital as a Cloud Engineer and DevOps for BBVA. Her earlier experience includes roles at BABEL and BlinkLearning, where she contributed to cloud engineering and site reliability.
Educational Background
Paula Guijarro has a solid educational foundation in information technology. She studied at the Centre d'Estudis Politècnics, where she earned a Técnico Superior en Administración de Sistemas Informáticos y Redes and a Técnico Superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web. Additionally, she completed a program at Cisco Networking Academy focused on network programming. She also studied at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, achieving a Licenciatura.
Technical Skills and Specializations
Paula specializes in container technologies and infrastructure as code. She has hands-on experience in defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Her work emphasizes automation to reduce operational toil, and she has developed tools that support high-availability infrastructures. Paula is also experienced in coaching and mentoring junior engineers, contributing to their professional development.
Contributions and Achievements
Paula has made significant contributions in her roles, including reducing API latency by 50% through the implementation of Cloudflare. Her focus on automation and efficiency has positively impacted the performance of the systems she has worked on, demonstrating her commitment to improving operational processes.