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Senior Technical Enablement Engineer at Sysdig, focused on API quality, developer experience, and cloud security.

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I’m a Senior Technical Enablement Engineer at Sysdig, focused on API quality, developer experience, and cloud security. Over the years I’ve moved from building customer demos and integrations, to core security products, and now to enabling engineers and customers with better APIs, tooling, and documentation.

I enjoy turning messy systems into something predictable, well-specified, and easy to integrate, and I like working close to both code and people: pairing, writing, teaching, and automating repetitive work (including with local AI tools).

👨‍💻 Experience Link to heading

Sysdig (7+ years) Link to heading

  • Sr. Technical Enablement Engineer (Nov 2025 - Present)

    Lead technical enablement initiatives for Support and Product teams, with a focus on API design, specifications, and developer experience.

    • Drive consistency across services: pagination models, error handling, authentication flows, and schema definitions.
    • Build internal tools, examples, and documentation that reduce friction for customers integrating with Sysdig APIs.
    • Design and maintain the Sysdig MCP server and AI agent tooling so LLMs can query and operate on Sysdig data directly.
    • Partner with engineering and product management to turn customer pain points into concrete improvements in our API surface and docs.

  • Technical Enablement Engineer II (Aug 2025 - Nov 2025)

    Senior individual contributor in the enablement team, evolving tooling, runbooks, and training content used by Support and field engineers. Formalized best practices around API usage, automation, and incident diagnostics, improving time-to-resolution for complex cases.

  • Technical Enablement Engineer (Jul 2024 - Jul 2025)

    First Technical Enablement Engineer in the Product organization, bridging engineering, support, and customers. Defined patterns and templates for API guides, SDK usage, and Terraform/CLI workflows, standardizing how we explain and expose features. Created enablement material (docs, examples, internal talks) that accelerated onboarding for new Support and Product teammates.

  • Software Engineer II – Secure (Oct 2022 - Jun 2024)

    Worked on cloud security features in the Secure product. Maintained and improved Cloud Connector, enabling customers to detect runtime threats in cloud environments and respond quickly. Helped evolve the vulnerability analysis engine for container image registries, scaling to large customer environments and multiple registries (ECR, ACR, ICR, Quay, Harbor, Artifactory). Contributed to Falco rule-based detection and security workflows.

  • Software Engineer – Secure (Jan 2021 - Sep 2022)

    Developed security features around image scanning and runtime detection. Improved the reliability and performance of scanning pipelines and integrations with external registries and CI/CD systems. Worked in an XP-style team (TDD/BDD, pairing, continuous refactoring) to keep the codebase maintainable while shipping new capabilities.

  • Junior Integrations Engineer (Feb 2020 - Dec 2020)

    Built and maintained integrations around the core Sysdig platform:

    • CLI for headless operations and scripting.
    • Python SDK for automating workflows and integrating with customers’ internal tools.
    • Terraform Provider so customers could manage Sysdig resources as code.

    Automated deployment of production demo environments as IaC, keeping them reproducible and easy to refresh.

  • Junior Marketing Integration Engineer (Apr 2018 - Jan 2020)

    Maintained production demo environments in AWS EC2, AWS EKS and GKE. Built integrations with emerging cloud-native and observability technologies, and showcased them in events across Europe:

    Wrote technical blog posts translating complex setups into practical how-tos:

Alerce (2 years and 10 months) Link to heading

  • Integrations Programmer (Jul 2015 - Apr 2018)

    Developed the Alerce’s Global Tracking System (GTS) frontend from scratch using responsive, material-inspired design. Improved and maintained the Java backend and database layer. Built a Magento plugin to expose GTS features directly inside customer e-commerce sites.

📚 Skills Link to heading

Languages

  • Daily use: Go, Python, JavaScript
  • Also worked with: Rust, Java, C/C++, PHP
  • Plus the usual suspects: HTML, CSS, SQL.

Cloud-native & Security

  • Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
  • Image scanning, runtime security, Falco rule syntax
  • AWS, GCP; Kubernetes security best practices

Developer Experience & Tooling

  • API design & specification (OpenAPI, pagination, error models, authentication)
  • SDKs, CLIs, Terraform providers
  • CI/CD and automation with GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Terraform

Practices

  • TDD/BDD, XP, pair programming
  • Ports & adapters / hexagonal architecture
  • Documentation, internal enablement, and technical coaching

👨‍🎓 Education Link to heading

University of Zaragoza Link to heading

  • Computer Science Engineering (2015 - 2022)
  • Vice president and secretary of the Free Software Student Association Pulsar (2017 - 2019)

Salesianos Zaragoza Link to heading

  • Higher Degree of Vocational Training — Development of Multiplatform Applications (2013 - 2015)
  • Technological Baccalaureate (2011 - 2013)

📄 Licenses and certifications Link to heading

  • LFS158X: Introduction to Kubernetes (The Linux Foundation) (Jun 2018)
  • Cambridge English Level 1 Certificate in ESOL International (Cambridge, Cred ID: 14CES4310005) (Feb 2015)