1. BORJA GONZÁLEZ
BIG DATA ARCHITECT
Phone: +34 655 929202 E-mail: gonzalezborja86@gmail.com
Calle Fernando Higueras 21 6ºC, 28055 Madrid, Spain
Solving Problems and Building Solutions for Digital World
Strategic, focused, and business oriented enterprise architect with 5 and a half years of experience
in information technologies. Able to provide expertise and help in planning, deploying, managing
and extending your Splunk implementation. Plan the optimal deployment architecture, configure
inputs, searches, alerts, dashboards and reports to best support your business processes.
CORE COMPETENCIES
 Splunk
 Big Data
 Cloud solutions
 XML and Web services, interoperability
 BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
 Leadership and team building
 Process improvement
 Conceptual thinking
 Emerging technology analysis
 Project and product management (PMP)
AVAILABILITY
I will be available to incorporate your company after 1 month notice.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Splunk Architect/Developer, Everis Consulting, IT & Outsourcing Professional
Services. Madrid, Spain — April 2016 – Present
My current role is in the Natural Gas industry, with one of the mayor companies in the country. In
this project I lead, as a Big Data architect, a small group of developers using the tool Splunk
creating a series of dashboards to monitor their business through the analysis of big
quantities of data (2-5 gigabytes of logs every day). My role consisted of choosing this tool
for the client, creating the architecture necessary to keep up with the amount of data necessary
for the creation of the dashboards, making sure the high availability of the data and the platform
itself by creating a cluster with replication factor, helping the IT department with the installation,
tuning and configuration of the cluster instances and leading the development of the dashboards.
 Clusterized architecture for a medium sized project
 Being able to create a high availability cluster with a
replication factor
Skills learned
 IT Operations
 Application Management
 Security and Compliance
 Business Analytics
 Web Analytics
 Operational Intelligence
 Log Management.
Areas of Knowledge
Industries
Industry (natural gas)
Process Frameworks and
Methodologies
Agile (Scrum)
Integration Tools
TIBCO
Technology Skills
Splunk, UNIX, Windows Server

2. Big Data Architect, Everis Consulting, IT & Outsourcing Professional Services
Madrid, Spain — January 2016 – March 2016
My first project as a Big Data architect, during this time I helped a team of other three consultants
finish the deployment and management of a Big Data ecosystem in a leading bank in Spain
(Bankia). The project consisted in the configuration of a big cluster using Hadoop and the rest
of tools integrated in a Cloudera solution, managed with Cloudera Navigator. The tasks I was
able to do during this time where: tuning the connection pool, resource management, create and
deply to repository servers for Python and R developers to work with.
 Provided IT advisory services and business management
consulting for developers.
 As my first role as a Big Data architect I learnt the big
data solution architecture, monitored and governed the
implementation.
Skills learned
 Big cluster management and parallel architecture
 Distributed RDBMS and knowledge on NoSQL platforms
 Being able to benchmark systems, analyze system
bottlenecks and propose solutions to eliminate them
 Being able to document use cases, solutions and
recommendations
 Being able to clearly articulate pros and cons of various
technologies and platforms
 Being able to work in teams, as a big data environment is
developed in a team of employees with different
disciplines
Areas of Knowledge
Industries
Banking
Architectural Styles
Big Data
Technology Skills
Java, Scala, Python, R, Cloudera,
Hadoop, Spark, Flume, Kafka, Hive,
Impala, Pig, HBase, MapReduce,
ZooKeeper, Sqoop, Unix
Other
AWS EC2 Servers
Software Architect, Everis Consulting, IT & Outsourcing Professional Services.
Madrid, Spain — September 2011 – January 2016
Part of the ISBAN’s architecture’s team (software division of Santander’s bank), responsible for
integration architecture, SOA, and other aspects of the IT strategic planning. Along with other
architects on the team we provide architectural guidance to the IT processes. The developer’s
team is responsible of continuously monitoring organizational performance at all levels and in real
time. Managing programmers and using agile methodologies like SCRUM. Developing monitoring
tools for business analysis. Using BAM technology to help business analyst monitor their
activities and gain continuous visibility into their business operations in real time using
KPIs and alerts along the processes of their business. Responsible for coordination,
requirements derivation, high level architecture design, and implementation of projects.
Experience managing small-medium teams while working with high standard and methodical
procedures understanding banking business. Working close to clients to gather requirements for
new projects.
 Provided IT advisory services and business management
consulting for developers.
 As an Architect and a member of the executive team of a
professional services company was responsible for
strategic planning of the enterprise, and held sole
responsibility for the most of technology aspects.
Architected and managed the delivery of repeatable
solutions for different banking solutions.
Areas of Knowledge
Industries
Banking
Process Frameworks and
Methodologies
MSF, Agile (Scrum, XP)
Architectural Styles

3.  Work with functional analysts, developers and
development managers to ensure that all solutions are
deployed within agreed timelines and supported after
delivery.
 Substantially developed project management practices
and communication between software development
teams, leading to smoother and more efficient
implementation and better utilization of time and budgets.
 Take lead architecture role in dealing with clients,
program managers and IT team.
 Help the bank save money and improve their business
through my software based on KPIs and alerts on their
business process
Skills learned
 Ability to cultivate relationships
 Quantitative and statistical skills
 Pattern of leadership
SOA, EII
Integration Tools
BizTalk, Layer 7 SSG, WebSphere,
MSMQ, SQL Server, SSIS, Oracle
Technology Skills
Java, C, C++, C#, Spring, JSF,
Hibernate, Maven, ANT, SVN,
Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic, HTML 5,
XHTML 1, XML 1, CSS 3, SVG, UNIX,
Windows Server
Other
TIBCO, Progress APAMA, GWT &
GSA
Software architect, Everis Consulting, IT & Outsourcing Professional Services
Madrid, Spain — January 2011 - September 2011
Part of the development team for Telefonica Movistar leading web programmers developing the
website www.movistar.es as a software architect. I was a key member in converting architecture
in both Backend & Frontend, allowing for more maintainable / flexible code and over all allowing
for better performance, largely improved data volumes and transaction volumes. Also my team
role was to plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard information in
computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure. Responsible
for the high level solution/architecture designing and best practices of the development teams.
 Led team of developers in the delivery of technical systems and components
 Ensured on-time, quality release of systems and components
 Provided technical direction to development teams
 Provided IP management leadership and oversight of the software development process
 Oversaw design of applications from functional and technical specifications
 Recommended and assisted with development of standards and project frameworks
 Worked with Solutions Architect to ensure smooth translation of requirements into
applications
 Document all technical requirements and design technical solutions utilizing enterprise
architecture standards including documenting all solution components and configurations
 Translate business requirements into detailed architectures and designs
Skills learned
 logical reasoning
 business acumen
 team orientation
 writing skills
 presentation skills
EDUCATION

4. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) - Computer Engineering - 2004-2010
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid is one of the most prestigious universities in Spain with a
very good reputation at computer engineering degree.
CONSULTING ATTRIBUTES
 Experienced in consulting on long term and short term projects.
 Able to understand and energize others.
 Ability to negotiate at all decision-making levels.
 Resolute relationship building skills.
 Can think, talk and acting commercially.
 Experienced in providing objective advice.
 Formulating recommendations and solutions.
 Able to quickly identify problems and weaknesses that afflict a business.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
 Having the required confidence, drive and enthusiasm.
 Entrepreneurial by nature.
 Comfortable with working on a new set of challenges and a completely different industries
and sectors.
 Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
 Adaptable to change.
 Can work independently.
 Having a positive ‘can do’ attitude.
 Very organized or methodical.
 Good at communicating with clients.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 6 June 1986
Nationality: Spanish
Languages
 Spanish: Native
 English: Fluent
 German: Beginner