Ignacio Alonso

My career

I'm a Chief Enterprise Architect at Kyndryl, where I've built my career over more than a decade — first at IBM, and then at Kyndryl following the spin-off ago. For the past , I've been focused on one of our most demanding clients: an international telecommunications company where I lead a team of subject matter experts to design and deliver resilient, enterprise-scale infrastructure.

My work bridges business problems and technology solutions. Day to day, that means tackling challenges like reducing technical debt in legacy systems, migrating workloads to the cloud, ensuring uninterrupted service even in the event of a complete data center failure, and implementing automation that enables infrastructure to scale with fluctuating demand. I have hands-on expertise across the full technology stack — compute, network, storage, security and cyber resiliency — and my proudest technical achievement to date has been designing and deploying a private cloud based on Red Hat technologies. Beyond that, I architect hybrid and multi-cloud environments spanning GCP, AWS and OCI.

Every technical decision I make is filtered through a strategic lens: Will this scale as the business grows? How does it integrate with existing systems? Can we automate it to reduce operational overhead? What happens when something fails? This forward-thinking approach is what ensures the solutions we build today remain valuable for years to come.

Before focusing exclusively on infrastructure architecture, I worked as a specialist in business intelligence, big data and natural language processing — including hands-on experience building chatbots, training machine learning models and processing unstructured documents using IBM Watson.

Beyond my corporate role, I serve as an Associate Professor in several Master's programs, teaching courses on cloud computing, big data, analytics, data visualization and natural language processing. This keeps me closely connected to emerging trends and to the next generation of technology professionals.

I'm a member of the Association of Enterprise Architects (Spain chapter), and one of the organizers of Big Data Developers in Madrid, a community with over 4,250 members.

Want to dig into my full professional history? Find me on 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.