Carlos Sánchez Páez
Data Platform Tech Lead • Fever
Data Platform Tech Lead at Fever, based in Málaga, Spain. Building high-throughput real-time CDC platforms, distributed Kubernetes systems, and modern analytical data engines.
Professional Milestones
Enterprise data architectures, platform engineering & real-time scale at Fever.
- Scaled Data Platform Team (1 → 8) @ Fever
Founded the Data Platform team as its sole founding member, migrating from a legacy non-scaling architecture to a modern, scalable platform — then growing the team to 8 engineers as Tech Lead.
- Tinybird Architecture Case Study ↗
Engineered real-time CDC streaming (Apache Kafka, Debezium, Tinybird) processing 300 TB/mo and 1.5M+ req/mo at <50ms p99.
- Modern DWH & Workflow Orchestration
Enterprise Airflow migrations (KubernetesExecutor & CeleryExecutor) and modern ELT with Snowflake, DBT & Python.
- Cloud Infrastructure & GitOps
Production Kubernetes, Argo CD sync-waves, Terraform IaC, and automated self-healing CI/CD pipelines.
Personal & Open Source
Bare-metal homelab engineering, open-source tooling & academic honors.
- 24/7 Bare-Metal Kubernetes Homelab →
3 physical nodes (humberto, dosberto, tresberto) with declarative GitOps, Longhorn HA storage & ZFS LocalPV.
- Apache Airflow Contributor
Upstream open-source contributions and async deferrable operator optimizations for the Apache Airflow ecosystem.
- Open-Source Tooling Creator ↗
Built cert-manager DuckDNS solver (Go), Metabase Terraform provider (Go), and tickets-analyzer-api (Python/FastAPI).
- BSc Computer Science (Honors & SEDEA)
10/10 with Honors in Bachelor's Thesis & top national academic rank (Spanish Society of Academic Excellence - SEDEA).