Abel Pérez Martínez
Software Engineer in Manchester, UK
I'm a Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience building reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems. My passion for coding began at 15, when I wrote my first “Hello World” in Pascal—and I've been hooked ever since. I kicked off my professional journey working with C# and .NET Framework 1.1, and I've grown alongside the platform ever since, moving from classic .NET to .NET Core and beyond. Along the way, I've worked across a broad spectrum of technologies, always eager to learn and adapt.
Over the last five years, I've been increasingly focused on Cloud technologies and the DevOps mindset. That shift has led me to play a key role in reshaping infrastructure within my teams and becoming the go-to person for anything AWS-related. I strongly believe in automation and infrastructure as code—because repeatability and reliability matter, and human error should never be part of the deployment process.
I've worked in all kinds of setups—from solo freelance gigs to collaborative teams of 10+ developers—across Cuba, Argentina, and now the UK. I approach every project as a unique challenge, choosing the right tools and applying solid design principles to ensure elegant, maintainable solutions that scale.
Beyond code, my experience as a university lecturer has sharpened my communication skills and broadened my perspective. I enjoy breaking down complex ideas and mentoring others. While I'm a full-stack developer, my heart is in the backend—where architecture, logic, and clean APIs come together to quietly power great user experiences.
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At Contract Communicator Systems, I built a cloud-based system from the ground up. I had the opportunity to work alongside the Product Team and make decisions that shaped the future of the product. I also managed the infrastructure and the deployment pipelines.
At CloudStuff, leading a team has been certainly a new experience, breaking out of my comfort zone and dealing with daily operations. Coordinating tasks, setting practices across the team and mentoring are my daily responsibilities while also maintaining the AWS account in good health.
At ao.com, as part of Basket team, rebuilt and improved the Checkout application cloud infrastructure from the ground up followed by the Deployment Pipeline using AWS CodePipeline/CodeDeploy so any team member can easily deploy to LIVE.
At Intechnica, in preparation for Black Friday, helped 20+ companies to enhance their resilience by executing long performance tests and sharing key findings.
At Globant, contributed to improve features on business critical software for important clients such as Deloitte and Sears.
Bachelor Degree with Honours (academic index of 5.11 out of a maximum of 5). Registered software “ERAFPLN v1.0” in CENDA (National Center of Author Rights) [2939-2009].
In College, as member of the high performance students group, achieved two interesting trophies: National Math Contest (Mention 2002), National Computer Programming Contest (Bronze 2003).
Cloud native applications - Recently improving my skills of Kubernetes and its implementation on Amazon Web Services. It's the best of both worlds: the portability of an industry standard and the leverage of the cloud provider that takes care of the underlying physical hosts.
Serverless architectures - Currently focused on Amazon Web Services, it's exciting to see how we can leverage the cloud to build cost-effective scalable systems with managed services like Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB.
Infrastructure automation - It's fascinating how a few lines of code can be transformed into interconnected pieces of hardware in a matter of minutes. CloudFormation and Terraform being those I've been looking into.
Linux and Raspberry Pi - From a primarily Microsoft tech stack background I've always been curious about what's on the other side, Windows at work and Linux at home is the way to go. I also enjoy having fun with Raspberry Pis, from retro gaming to local streaming box.