David Poblador i Garcia David Poblador i Garcia

Senior Technologist and Advisor

Founder at All Tuner Labs

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Résumé

Senior Technologist with 25+ years of experience leading tech departments, building scalable systems, and managing infrastructure teams.

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Summary

Passionate about organizational design, cloud architecture, and distributed systems. At Spotify, I founded the Site Reliability Engineering department and grew it from 5 people to hundreds. Led the migration of 15,000+ physical servers to Google Cloud and prepared the tech stack for Spotify to go public. Deeply involved in technical due diligence processes for acquisitions and compliance with data protection regulations.

Expert in scalability and architecture, having designed systems that process billions of events daily while balancing performance, security, and developer productivity.

Entrepreneur at heart — founded and ran my own ISP for 7+ years as technical lead, managing director, and systems architect. Currently CEO at All Tuner Labs, building technology solutions with a philosophy of simplicity.

I mentor emerging tech leaders and co-host two tech podcasts: 2048 enllà and Entre Dev y Ops.

Professional Experience

All Tuner Labs, Founder

Barcelona. Feb 2024 – Present

Castuner: Building tools that help content shine, without the usual tech industry overhead. Taking everything I’ve learned about scaling systems and teams to create something intentionally simple and focused.

Devtuner: Developer productivity without the bullsh*t.

Rigora Labs, Co-Founder

Barcelona. Jul 2025 – Present

Building the future of news rooms.

Entre Dev y Ops, Podcast Co-Host

Dec 2022 – Present

Co-Host of Entre Dev y Ops, a 9+ year old podcast about the world of DevOps and software engineering in general.

Secways

Technology Advisor

Barcelona. Feb 2024 – Oct 2025

Advising on technology investments and due diligence.

Chief Technology Officer

Barcelona. Mar 2023 – Feb 2024

Responsible for overseeing the technical due diligence processes and managing the technology stack across the portfolio.

2048 enllà, Podcast Co-Host

Catalonia. Sep 2023 – Oct 2025

Catalunya Ràdio, Technology Segment Host

Barcelona. Jul 2025 – Aug 2025

Technology Segment Host for La tarda de Catalunya Ràdio.

Spotify

Senior Director of Engineering – Principal Engineer

Stockholm / Barcelona. Mar 2020 – Sep 2022

Contributed to several cross-cutting projects identifying aging stacks and discovering ways to modernize them. Revamped the VCS/CI strategy. Reduced reliance on individual compute regions for the data processing stack handling billions of events daily. Took interim leadership of Productivity Engineering, continuing its transformation into a product-oriented organization.

Senior Director of Engineering – Principal Engineer

Stockholm / Barcelona. Nov 2018 – Mar 2020

Kicked off Platform Insights, instrumenting the life of an engineer at Spotify and components in the critical path for delivering software. The initiative was a major success — Spotify doubled down on that effort, building connections with companies with similar initiatives (Microsoft, Google, Airbnb). Led the strategy behind revamping service-to-service communication architecture.

Director of Engineering – Principal Engineer

Stockholm / Barcelona. Sep 2017 – Nov 2018

As the first Principal Engineer at Spotify, led projects at the confluence of multiple organizations. Participated in architectural reviews of due diligence processes for acquisitions. Deprecated parts of legacy infrastructure (testing and integration environments), saving millions of dollars yearly.

Director of Engineering, Infrastructure and Operations

Stockholm / Barcelona. Mar 2016 – Sep 2017

Led parts of the organization instrumental to migrating infrastructure from on-premise to Google Cloud Platform — accomplished in less than 2 years despite the large footprint (15,000+ physical servers). Designed a product-oriented infrastructure organization shifting from infrastructure-centric to engineering enablement.

Service Availability Product Area Lead

Stockholm / Barcelona. Sep 2013 – Mar 2016

Led teams in charge of Networking, Security, Provisioning, Operations Scalability and Real Time Monitoring. Part of the Spotify Architecture group.

Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Stockholm / Barcelona. Nov 2011 – Sep 2013

Founded and led the SRE team. Responsible for incident management, release management, delegating operational responsibility to feature teams, and leading recruitment for systems and network engineering. Led systems engineering for launching Spotify in new markets and the integration with Facebook in 2011.

Operations Engineer

Stockholm / Barcelona. May 2011 – Nov 2011

Capacity planning and scalability for user login, user data systems, and track decryption. Led systems engineering effort for the US launch and the Facebook integration.

FloraQueen, Chief Technology Officer

Barcelona. May 2010 – Apr 2011

Led the technical team. Managed developers and systems specialists. Led adoption of a new platform, migration plan, and infrastructure decisions using Open Source solutions.

Flumotion, Infrastructure Manager

Barcelona. Dec 2009 – Jun 2010

Managed a team of systems administrators delivering thousands of TB per month. Established work plans and incidence resolution strategies.

Careesma, Head of Infrastructure

Barcelona. Jan 2006 – Dec 2009

Created an in-house infrastructure team (previously outsourced). In charge of high-traffic websites (infojobs.it, infopraca.pl, careesma.at). Designed redundant and scalable infrastructure. Participated in migration from ColdFusion + Oracle to LAMP stack.

puntbarra, Cofounder and Community Manager

Jan 2002 – Aug 2008

Ran a Catalan Slashdot clone for 6 years which became one of the biggest reference websites for technology and free software among the Catalan speaking community.

Rinho Sistemas, Founder, Owner & Tech Lead

Barcelona. Jun 2001 – Aug 2007

Co-founded a startup enabling SMEs to access the Internet. Built custom servers running Debian GNU/Linux. Deployed corporate firewalls, mail gateways and application servers. First contact with tech management.

Advanced Telecom Cubic, Systems Administrator

Barcelona. Dec 2000 – Jun 2001

Systems specialist at one of the most important ISPs in Barcelona. First professional contact with Python.

Ralarsa (Cary Group), Communications Specialist

L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. Jan 2000 – Dec 2000

Designed and executed a migration from SCO OpenServer to Slackware Linux on 30+ servers.

Skills

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Due Diligence
  • Cloud Architecture (GCP, AWS)
  • Scalability & Distributed Systems
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Infrastructure Management
  • Organizational Design
  • Technical Due Diligence

Languages

  • English (Full Professional)
  • Catalan (Native)
  • Spanish (Native)
  • Swedish (Limited Working)
  • German (Elementary)
  • French (Elementary)

Certifications

  • Certificate of Proficiency in English (Cambridge English)
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning (Coursera)
  • Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals (Google Cloud)
  • MySQL 5.1 for Database Administrators (MySQL AB)
  • LPIC-2 (Linux Professional Institute)
  • LPIC-1 (Linux Professional Institute)
  • Novell Certified Linux Administrator (Novell)
  • Novell Data Center Technical Specialist (Novell)

Awards

  • Google Treasure Hunt 2008 winner

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