Alfonso Afonso

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ABOUT ALFONSO AFONSO

Engineering leader with 17+ years of experience driving strategic data and platform initiatives that enable business growth, operational eciency, and product innovation at scale. Specialised in cloud infrastructure (AWS), data engineering, and AI enablement within Fintech and media sectors. Currently leading distributed engineering teams across London, Amsterdam, and Bangalore, operating within a global organisational context. Focused on translating business needs into scalable platform strategies, improving data-driven decision-making, and enabling new product capabilities. Experience includes systems serving 50M+ weekly users and handling 300K+ requests per second via global CDN. Proven track record of delivering multi-year roadmaps, delivering large-scale data platforms processing terabytes of data, and enabling advanced analytics and machine learning use cases. Recognised for influencing cross-functional stakeholders, improving delivery across teams and domains, and embedding ownership and accountability across teams, while driving AI adoption and shaping early-stage capabilities into strategic assets. CORE SKILLS Leadership & Strategy alignment Cross-functional leadership • Stakeholder management • Roadmap planning • Hiring & mentoring • Organisational Backend & Cloud Java, Scala, Spring Boot • AWS (S3, Lambda, ECS, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch, DocumentDB, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, RDS) • Microservices • Serverless Data & AI Systems Data pipelines • SQL/NoSQL (Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) • AI agents • AWS Bedrock • Model fine-tuning • Data lineage • DBT • Airflow, Oozie DevOps & Delivery CI/CD • Docker, Kubernetes • Jenkins, Harness • Monitoring (Grafana) • Agile, Scrum Business Impact Cost eciency • Platform transformation • Data-driven decision-making • AI adoption at scale