Who is Ignacio?
IT Enterprise Architect · Associate Professor
My career
Who I am
I'm a Chief Enterprise Architect at Kyndryl. I've been here for more than 17 years — first at IBM, then at Kyndryl after the 2021 spin-off.
What I do
For the past , I've led a team of specialists serving a major international telecom. We design and deliver large-scale, resilient infrastructure. My job is simple to describe: I turn business problems into technology solutions.
How I do it
I cover the full stack: compute, network, storage, security, and cyber resiliency. In practice, that means reducing legacy debt, migrating to the cloud, keeping services running even when a full data center goes down, and building automation that scales with demand. I also design GPU platforms to support AI workloads — infrastructure built to run large language models at scale.
Key projects I've led
I've led the design and deployment of a Private cloud built on Red Hat technologies, and architected workload mobility strategies across clouds — moving workloads to the right place to cut technical debt and reduce costs. Beyond that, I design hybrid and multi-cloud environments spanning GCP, AWS, and OCI.
More recently, I've been leading projects to run AI workloads on-premises with open-weight LLMs. I design the architecture and size the components it takes to make that work — GPUs, switches, storage and everything in between.
Where I come from
Before infrastructure, I worked in business intelligence, big data and NLP — building chatbots, training ML models and processing unstructured data with IBM Watson.
Beyond my day job
I teach cloud computing, big data, analytics and NLP in several Master's programs. I'm also a member of the Association of Enterprise Architects (Spain chapter) and one of the organizers of Big Data Developers in Madrid — a community of over 4,250 members.
Key Skills
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:
…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.
If you'd like a session, the best way to reach me is on X or LinkedIn. Send me a direct message telling me what you want to work on, and I'll get back to you.
Certifications
Generative AI Leader · Google
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Professional Certification: Level 1 - Certified Solution Architect
Architect Profession Certification - Level 1 Experienced
Architectural Thinking
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 usually write articles on Sundays. You can read it on my Medium account.
Come on! Now that you know everything about me, let's contact by X, and talk about you! 😃
*"Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning and implementing solutions to satisfy business strategies." — OpenGroup