Senior backend engineer with 5+ years building high-throughput distributed systems using Python, Kafka, and AWS. I own production architecture end-to-end, delivering measurable cost and reliability improvements. I’ve led major streaming and telemetry redesigns (handling 100K+ sustained events/sec), migrated managed Kafka across providers to cut costs, and built multi-tenant platforms and AWS media workflows. I’m focused on robust releases, correct operational practices, and automation-friendly system design.

Guillermo Lupiáñez Tapia

Senior backend engineer with 5+ years building high-throughput distributed systems using Python, Kafka, and AWS. I own production architecture end-to-end, delivering measurable cost and reliability improvements. I’ve led major streaming and telemetry redesigns (handling 100K+ sustained events/sec), migrated managed Kafka across providers to cut costs, and built multi-tenant platforms and AWS media workflows. I’m focused on robust releases, correct operational practices, and automation-friendly system design.

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Senior backend engineer with 5+ years building high-throughput distributed systems using Python, Kafka, and AWS. I own production architecture end-to-end, delivering measurable cost and reliability improvements.

I’ve led major streaming and telemetry redesigns (handling 100K+ sustained events/sec), migrated managed Kafka across providers to cut costs, and built multi-tenant platforms and AWS media workflows. I’m focused on robust releases, correct operational practices, and automation-friendly system design.

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Spanish; Castilian
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Work Experience

Senior Backend Engineer at Plénitas
January 1, 2025 - July 1, 2026
Led a redesign of playback telemetry for 100K+ sustained events/sec by publishing directly to Kafka and removing RabbitMQ from the critical path. Migrated managed Kafka from Confluent Cloud to Amazon MSK, reducing streaming costs by 80%. Built a Kafka-based viewing-progress service for a seven-figure user platform using event coalescing to reduce Redis write pressure. Designed AWS media workflows covering live ingestion, adaptive delivery, clipping, transcoding, and transcription. Built a multi-tenant MCP platform with token-derived isolation, tenant-scoped GraphQL tools, human approval for writes, and RAG over 100+ Confluence pages.
Python Backend Engineer at Deutsche Telekom
November 1, 2023 - July 1, 2025
Developed and operated 10+ production microservices with Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL on AWS using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm. Owned releases from application versioning through environment promotion, and diagnosed/resolved production failures caused by incorrectly applied database migrations.
Full Stack Engineer at Workdeck
February 1, 2023 - November 1, 2023
Built Python/FastAPI services and Angular features for a multi-tenant SaaS platform serving ~30 customer organizations. Delivered Shopify, LinkedIn, and Google integrations plus event-driven AWS workflows and containerized cloud deployments.
Full Stack Engineer at nucleoo
January 1, 2022 - February 1, 2023
Developed core Flask/MongoDB APIs and Angular modules for client-facing and internal product workflows; integrated third-party services and deployed on Azure. Redesigned Pytest and test-database architecture, increasing coverage from 30% to 80%, removing flaky tests, and stabilizing CI.
Junior Full Stack Developer at CXPLUS
February 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
Helped build a cloud ERP/CRM for ISPs from scratch using Django REST and PostgreSQL. Designed core data models and deployed the containerized product on GCP.

Education

BSc in Computer Science at University of Granada
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021
BSc in Computer Science at University of Granada
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, Professional Services