Ignacio Alonso

My career

For over a decade, I honed my skills at IBM before transitioning to the spin-off, Kyndryl, three years ago. At Kyndryl, I've been able to continue pursuing my passion for technology, always striving to connect technical innovation with tangible business outcomes.

I currently hold the role of IT Enterprise Architect^*, serving a Telco company for over six years. My day-to-day work bridges the gap between business problems and their technology-based solutions. I solve complex issues, such as the digital transformation of legacy systems by reducing technical debt and migrating to the cloud. I also design systems that ensure uninterrupted service for end customers, even in the event of a complete data center failure, and I implement cloud automation solutions that enable auto-scaling to meet fluctuating demand.

I have had different roles in my life: business intelligence tech specialist, big data tech specialist, and natural language processing tech specialist. I also worked with IBM Watson solutions (creating chatbots, understanding documents with IA, training watson machine learning models, etc).

I belong to the Association of Enterprise Architects (chapter of Spain), where I help as a member.

I'm one of the organizers of the Meetup called Big Data Developers in Madrid, with more than 4250 members.

Check out my professional career at LinkedIn.

Key Skills

Responsibilities as IT Architect

• Design, develop, and implement enterprise-wide IT architecture solutions to meet business needs
• Develop and maintain IT architecture roadmaps
• Analyze existing IT systems and recommend changes to improve performance and scalability
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and develop solutions
• Develop and maintain system and application architecture diagrams
• Lead the design and implementation of complex IT projects
• Develop and maintain IT architecture documentation

Associate professor in Masters

I enjoy explaining the things that I know, yes... I enjoy teaching 👨‍🎓. I participate in Seminars and I give talks as Associate Professor at several universities and business schools.

Here you have a list of topics I usually talk about:

• Cloud Computing
• Visualizations
• Sentiment Analysis in Social Media
• Graphs
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Some of the Schools/Universities where I teach: IE Business School University (IE), Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO), ESIC Business and Marketing School (ESIC), Universidad Europea (UE), CUNEF, Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and Madrid School of Marketing (MSMK), among others.

Coaching

I like helping people understand complex technological systems. I have been helping +20 students to develop their Final Master's Project.

I have personally coached people who wanted to have more knowledge in areas such as: cloud computing, IT architecture, visualizations or career changes towards a technological profile, with one-to-one sessions.

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Professional Certification: Level 1 - Certified Solution Architect

Architect Profession Certification - Level 1 Experienced

Architectural Thinking

IBM Cloud Essentials

Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

Telecom. Industry Jumpstart

My life

I was born in Madrid, Spain. Although I have been in a lot of countries, I live in Madrid. My life revolves around my wife (which I admire every day) and our children (including our fluffy dog 🐶).

I enjoy taking landscape pictures with my Sony 𝜶6600 camera. Lately I really enjoy making short videos of my travels, and editing them.

Public articles, presentations, and other stuff

I used to write articles on Sundays, you can read it on my Medium account.

More talks and presentations on the table below.