Miky · Figarocorso

Miguel Julián Engineering Manager @ Sysdig — Zaragoza, Spain

I grew from QA & DevOps into leading remote teams that ship reliably, driven by constant improvement.

🐉 Father of a (tiny) dragon.

About

An engineering manager who never left the engine room.

since 2018

Way beyond release manager

  • Owning K8s application delivery
  • Efficiency first — never forgetting the customer
current challenge

AI as an amplifier

  • AI is an amplifier of good and evil
  • Same quality bar — but faster

Experience

Outcomes over duties — newest first.

Sysdig2018 – present
SDET Tooling Tech Lead Engineering Manager

Manage remote teams (up to 10 people). Throughout, I've worked constantly around tooling and Kubernetes application shipping — with a strong focus on on-prem customers.

Frogtek2014 – 2018

QA & Release Manager + Django developer

Owned the release pipeline for web + Android; ran on-prem and app-store deliveries.

Zentyal2012 – 2014

DevOps Engineer + Django developer

Built and operated scalable mail / cloud infrastructure.

Colegio Juan de Lanuza2008 – 2012

Maths / CS Teacher + Sysadmin

Four years teaching while running the school's systems and network.

How I work

After some success and tons of failures, the lessons that stuck — and how they play out day to day.

Life outside IT

The differentiators a CV usually buries.

🐉

Father of a dragon

And she's winning. The best leadership training I've ever had — patience, priorities and negotiation, on hard mode.

🎓

Teaching

4 years as a high-school maths / CS teacher. Still run yearly TDD sessions at the local university.

🎤

Talks & workshops

University lectures and a config-mgmt workshop in Ghent.

🎟️

Organising events

Ran Pint of Science and part of the TEDxZaragoza team.

🔭

Astronomy

Chasing dark skies and long-exposure star trails.

🏁

Motorsport

F1 history nerd — Senna is the reason.

🎸

Music

Festivals, records, and dozens of reviews written over the years.

✍️

Journalism

Genbeta (2M visits/mo) & an RNE national-radio segment.

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Where next?

The rest of the site.