Ignacio Alonso Delgado

My career

I worked at IBM for +10 years, now working at the spin-off called Kyndryl +3 years. I am passionate about the technical world but, trying not to lose the business view.

I currently hold the role of Chief 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 Enterpise 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.




Key Skills

always learning adaptability to change think ahead proactive curious positive attitude restless meticulous public speaking team work sketching concepts architecture diagramming emotional intelligence time management professor it architecture cloud computing infrastructure as code python automation scripting data processing networking analytics visualizations DevOps ITIL big data NLP




Responsibilities as IT Architect




Associate professor in Masters

I enjoy to 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:

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), Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF), Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and Madrid School of Marketing (MSMK), among others.




Coaching

I like to 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


See all my +30 badges 👉



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

Public articles 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.

Title Type Date
Google Next · From Chaos to Control: The MasOrange story of streamlining to Google Cloud Talk at Google Next April 2025
Seminario | Cómo ayuda la nube en la digitalización de tu empresa Talk at a Seminar November 2023
Seminario | La nube como acelerador digital de la empresa Talk at a Seminar February 2022
Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Dummies Talk at a Meetup June 2018
Watson Explorer Community Edition Tutorial Youtube video playlist March 2018
Data Science Experience + Watson Machine Learning Video December 2017
El País: El ‘big data’ ayuda a tomar decisiones, pero lo importante es la intuición Collaboration on the article June 2017
Silicon: A fondo: ¿Acabará la inteligencia artificial con el data scientist? Collaboration on the article May 2017
¿Qué es un científico de datos? Video March 2017
Data Science Experience (DSX) + Spark SQL Intro Video December 2016
IBM Business Connect 2016 - Data Science Experience Talk November 2016
Las Redes Sociales: ¿estás dentro o no? IBM Blog article November 2014







*“Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning and implementing solutions to satisfy business strategies.” — OpenGroup