Fernando Pradas.

Europe's leading digital automotive platform, operating in 30+ countries with revenues of ~€6.3B (2024).

• ▸ Building reliable and scalable systems to consolidate AUTO1's presence across Europe.

Led the evolution of OLX Autos' backend architecture, spearheading the transition from microservices to a fully Event-Driven Architecture. Worked cross-functionally with 4 teams.

• ▸ Defined Kafka-based EDA best practices, reducing response time by 40%.
• ▸ Standardized GitLab CI/CD pipelines, cutting deployment time by 35% and raising success rate to 98%.
• ▸ Integrated SonarQube — improved code coverage by 25% and reduced critical vulnerabilities by 80% in 6 months.

1 year 8 months total at OLX Autos

Helped OLX Autos grow and consolidate in LATAM and other key markets (500K+ cars listed/month, 50K+ inspections).

• ▸ Led full data migration from the legacy platform to the OLX platform.
• ▸ Refactored legacy Java code to Kotlin, integrating unit and integration tests.
• ▸ Implemented anti-corruption layer pattern to build new features with Kotlin + Spring Boot.

Faculty member in the Master's program for High-Performance Web Programming at La Salle (Ramon Llull University), specializing in Development Frameworks.

• ▸ Taught Symfony, dependency injection, ORM, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles with a hands-on approach.
• ▸ Achieved a 4.9/5 rating in anonymous teacher evaluations.

First Spanish startup to achieve unicorn status ($1B+ valuation), with 100M+ downloads and 20M+ monthly active users. Part of the user-focused and authentication team for ~700K daily active users.

• ▸ Built Trust & Safety tooling to mitigate and prevent scams at scale.
• ▸ Collaborated with SecOps to enhance platform security and mitigate external attacks.
• ▸ Maintained User microservices with SLA consistently above 99.99%.

Co-founded a collaborative crypto platform focused on ICO analysis with community reward mechanics via utility tokens.

• ▸ Designed smart contracts in Solidity (ERC-20, Crowdsale, Airdrop) following OpenZeppelin security standards.
• ▸ Deployed Gnosis multi-signature wallet on testnet and mainnet via Infura API.
• ▸ Successfully deployed all contracts to Ethereum mainnet and launched the ICO in 2018.

Spain's leading travel and leisure platform with significant presence in LATAM. Worked on the ticketing vertical (Atrápalo Eventos).

• ▸ Designed services to sell and manage ticket stock for events and activities.
• ▸ Led migration from monolithic PHP to microservices in Symfony, guided by DDD under CTO Carlos Buenosvinos.

Small dynamic company (12–14 employees) focused on SaaS CMS/e-commerce solutions and custom client projects.

• ▸ Built MOOC platform (Homuork) and online magazine kiosk (iQUIOSC.cat).
• ▸ Contributed to the initial design and conceptualization of CMS platform (comitium.io).