ASC
ASC
Antonio Suárez Cortés

Domain Architect with 3+ years of architecture experience, 6+ in the payments industry and 10+ in software development, building and scaling distributed systems at global scale. Hands-on technical leader bridging cloud infrastructure, backend engineering, and organisational strategy — with a strong focus on observability, reliability, and continuous delivery.

Domain Architect
Saber.tech · Lottoland — Lottoland's in-house technology hub; previously embedded via Ciklum as external consultant
Now Jun 2023 — Present Full Remote

Payment gateway integration and cloud-based distributed systems architecture. Leading domain-level technical decisions and coordinating with cross-department teams on platform reliability, scalability and delivery.

AWSKubernetesTerraform DatadogJavaSpring Boot MicroservicesCloud Architecture
Domain Architect
Ciklum
Jan 2023 — Jun 2023 Full Remote

Payment gateway integration and cloud-based distributed systems. Promoted to domain-level architectural responsibility, overseeing technical direction across multiple delivery squads.

AWSKubernetesTerraform DatadogJavaSpring Boot MicroservicesCloud Architecture
Senior Java Backend Developer
Ciklum
Oct 2021 — Jan 2023 Full Remote

Payment gateway integration using cloud-based distributed systems. Contributed to core backend services handling high-throughput financial transactions.

AWSKubernetesTerraform DatadogJavaSpring Boot MicroservicesCloud Architecture
Middle Java Backend Developer
Ciklum
Aug 2020 — Oct 2021 Full Remote

Payment gateway integration using cloud-based distributed systems.

AWSKubernetesTerraform DatadogJavaSpring Boot MicroservicesCloud Architecture
Back-end Developer
Star Solution Systems — In-office 2016–2018, full remote thereafter
Jun 2016 — Aug 2020 Cádiz Full Remote

Backend development, systems integration, and sportsbook feed integrations for enterprise software products.

JavaBackend Sportsbook Feed Integrations
Software Developer Intern
CERNEP · Universidad de Almería
Jun 2015 — May 2016 Almería

Analysis, design and implementation of software tools for neuropsychological evaluation and rehabilitation systems.

JavaPHP
Cloud & Infra
AWSKubernetes TerraformDocker
Observability & SRE
DatadogMonitoring AlertingSLOs
Backend
JavaSpring Boot MavenApache SparkMongoDB
CI/CD & DevOps
GitHub ActionsGitLab Pipelines nginx
AI & Tooling
AI-assisted development Claude CodeGitHub Copilot
Soft Skills
Technical Leadership Cross-dept Collaboration Accountability Continuous Learning Problem Solving Negotiation MVP Mindset
2019 – 2021
MSc Advanced Analytics on Big Data
Universidad de Málaga
2012 – 2015
Computer Engineering
Universidad de Almería
Certifications
Dec 2021
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Udemy
Apr 2021
Architecting on AWS
IT Institute
Languages
Spanish
Native
English
Professional

Open to architecture roles, consulting opportunities and technical conversations.