Carles Mateo

@carlesmateo

Carles is a Cloud Architect (Higher Diploma in Science in Cloud Computing with First Class Honours by MTU, in Ireland), Software Engineer, Operations Engineer, SRE and AI specialist.

Carles developed most of his career working in Ireland, US, Barcelona. Travelling often to Scotland, England and Germany.

He mixed roles as CTO, technical leadership in Software Development and Systems/Operations, working with Hardware in Datacenters, Cloud Architect and Software Developer in different languages, and SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) troubleshooting and fixing problems.

In Ireland he lead a Storage project for Sanmina, with ZFS (DRAID), C and Python, for servers with more than 90 disks.

Carles also wrote Open Source Software for Cassandra and based in Erasure Codes and utilities like ctop.py, cmemgzip or the Cloud performance comparator for instances cmips.net.
Before Internet, in the modems and BBS era, he had his own BBS and was writing Freeware.

Carles has worked hands on in several datacenters from top companies around the world, in US, Switzerland, Spain.

He was Operations Engineer in Activision Blizzard and did lead the SRE meetings for the game WOW (World of Warcraft).

Carles has developed a lot of webs/e-Commerces in PHP, specially for Start ups, as specialist and as CTO.

He worked for companies like Atrapalo, Privalia, Trip4real...

He has lead development teams coding in PHP, C, Java and Python.
And has also lead Systems Operations, hands on, as lead, and as member of group of experts.

He created the first e-Commerce for selling tickets for concerts in Europe, in C language, in 1995.

He created e-Commerce solutions for Doctor Music, Tick Tack Ticket and was head of systems for BBVA Tickets.

Carles also developed a lot in Java for Volkswagen gedas and other companies like SEAT and Port of Barcelona, as Senior Developer.

In Vokswagen gedas he became Technical Project Manager and certified the Internet Department in ISO-9001, and later became Head of Department (Code Components and Reusability).

He lead the first .NET project in Spain (Madrid) for Volkswagen Finance.

He was Senior in Winterthur insurance (bought by AXA), where he lead several key projects.

Carles did create a messenger, before Microsoft Messenger existed, around 1995, when users connected to Internet through dial-up (modems). It had games online, files sending with resume, P2P and feeling status.

He also coded in Visual Basic, and asp, and is a certified Documentum Consultant. He worked in a Documentum project for CaixaBank.

Nowadays he programs solutions for several CMS.

Carles was maximum responsible of the Linux systems in ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and helped several CSP (Cloud Service Providers).

Carles had been invited to Menlo Park by Facebook around 2015, and to several sites from Amazon in Europe and in the United States to discuss possible collaborations in projects.

Through his project cmips.net he was contacted by Google, and he was helping the technical and managing teams of Google Cloud to fix and improve their Cloud services when they were in beta (mainly Compute Engine).

Carles writes technical books and novels, and has been programming teacher.

He also conducts a weekly radio program about technology: "Món Digital", in Catalan.

Carles started programming in BASIC when he was 5 years old.

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