About the Authors
Carlos Buenosvinos
Carlos is an Extreme Programmer (XP) and DevOps with more than 20 years of experience in developing Web and Mobile Applications. For the last ten years, he has played various leading roles such as Tech Lead, VP of Engineering, and CTO. He has mentored engineering and product teams of up to 150 members in multiple different markets such as E-commerce, E-Learning, Payment Processing, Classifieds, and Recruiting Market.
As an employee and consultant, he has contributed to the success of start-ups and well-established brands. Some examples are SEAT, NewWork/XING, Atrรกpalo, GMV, PCComponentes, Cash Converters, Emagister, O2O, Opositatest, Techpump, Packlink, eBay, Lowpost, Vendo, Riplife, and many more.
He is the happy creator of Ansistrano, the most starred Ansible Galaxy role. He is also the author of the book Domain-Driven Design in PHP. He is also a conference speaker and organizer of the DevOps Barcelona Conference and the PHP Barcelona Conference.
His main areas of expertise are Agile Team Management (Scrum and Kanban), Best Development Practices (Extreme Programming, Domain-Driven Design, and Microservice Architectures), and Digital Transformation (Agile, XP, and DevOps).
You can follow him at Twitter, at his blog or at GitHub.
Christian Soronellas
Christian is an Extreme Programmer and has over 15 years of experience helping tech companies succeed from a broad variety of roles, from Software Engineer to CTO. He has helped companies such as Privalia, Emagister, Atrรกpalo, Enalquiler, PlanetaHuerto, PcComponentes or Opositatest. He is the author of the book Domain-Driven Design in PHP as well as a conference co-organizer of DevOps Barcelona Conference and PHP Barcelona Conference
You can follow him at Twitter or at GitHub.
Keyvan Akbary
Keyvan is an Engineering Leader and programmer with more than 15 years of experience crafting products customers love and helping teams succeed. He understands technology as a medium for providing value, not the end itself. He has a passion for Distributed Systems, Software fundamentals, SOLID principles, Clean Code, Design Patterns, Domain-Driven Design and, Testing; as well as being a sporadic Functional Programmer. For the last 7 years he has also focused on growing teams in high scaleup product companies, advocating for customer-centric product development, Extreme Programming, DevOps, Lean, and Kanban.
He has worked on countless projects as a freelancer, on video streaming at Youzee, tradesman marketplace at MyBuilder, in addition to founding his own crowdfunding startup Funddy, and leading FinTech teams at Wise. Currently, he is leading engineering in the ride-hailing space as Head of Engineering at Cabify.
He is also the author of “Domain-Driven Design in PHP” and “The Manager’s Manual”.
You can follow him at Twitter, at LinkedIn, at his blog or at GitHub.