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SubscribeMeet David Poblador i Garcia — a Senior Technologist with over 25 years of experience in leading tech departments, building scalable systems, and managing infrastructure teams. David is passionate about organizational design, cloud architecture, and distributed systems.
David is the founder of All Tuner Labs, a company using modern technologies to solve real-world problems. They're building Castuner, a platform to help creators reach and improve the lives of their audiences, with a philosophy of simplicity.
During his career at Spotify, David founded the Site Reliability Engineering department and grew it from a team of 5 to hundreds. As a Senior Director and Principal Engineer, he led the migration of 15,000+ physical servers to Google Cloud, prepared the tech stack for Spotify's IPO, and was involved in various acquisitions.
David also worked with Secways, leading technical due diligence processes during acquisitions and helping assess investments. His expertise spans scalability and architecture, having worked on projects that process billions of events daily and designed systems to handle redundancy and recovery for major cloud incidents.
Prior to Spotify, David founded an Internet Service Provider and ran it for over 7 years as the technical lead, managing director, and systems architect. He deeply believes in mentoring the next generation of tech leaders and helping transform teams into product-oriented organizations.
David is also a co-host of two podcasts: 2048 enllà and Entre Dev y Ops, where he shares knowledge and discusses the latest in software engineering and tech trends.