Cristian Ruiz

Backend Engineer

I design and build scalable distributed systems, architect microservices platforms, and solve complex technical challenges

Technical Expertise

10+ Years of Experience

Designing and building scalable backend systems across retail, automotive, and energy sectors

Technical Mentorship

Guiding developers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural decisions

Distributed Systems Architect

Microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-availability systems design

Cloud & Infrastructure

Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architecture on GCP

Now

Working at MediaMarktSaturn, Europe's leading consumer electronics retailer, building and operating internal platforms that keep business-critical operations running reliably at scale πŸ’Ύ

Before

Built cloud-native solutions for CARIAD (Volkswagen Group) at Hexad. Designed event-driven architectures, implemented CI/CD pipelines, and established engineering best practices 🚘

Architected automation systems at Effenmark and optimized workflows for their energy management platform πŸ’‘

Side Projects

Personal projects I build to explore new technologies and experiment with different architectural patterns

Skills

Backend

Go Go
Kotlin Kotlin
Ktor Ktor
Java Java
Spring Boot Spring Boot
Postgres Postgres
Mongo DB Mongo DB
Redis Redis

Frontend

HTML HTML
CSS CSS
Javascript Javascript
Typescript Typescript
React React
Astro Astro

CI/CD

Kubernetes Kubernetes
Github Actions Github Actions
GCP GCP
Terraform Terraform