Ignacio Alonso

My career

Who I am

I'm a Chief Enterprise Architect at Kyndryl. I've been here for over a decade — 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.

What I've achieved

My biggest technical achievement so far? Designing and deploying a private cloud built on Red Hat technologies. I've also architected workload mobility strategies across clouds — moving the right 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.

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.

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 usually write articles on Sundays. You can read it on my Medium account.

More talks and presentations on the table below.