Luis Quesada
Senior Software Engineering Manager
www.luisquesada.com | github.com/lquesada
Contact via linkedin.com/in/luisquesadatorres
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SUMMARY Engineering leader with expertise in defining and executing technical strategy, with a proven track record
of building top-performing organizations. Led 70+ engineers to revamp five production areas across 50+
products, boosting engineering velocity and system reliability and efficiency for 1K+ engineers.
INDUSTRY Google, 2014 – currently
Geo, Software Engineering — Senior Engineering Manager (L7)
• Developing Google-wide infrastructure, both applying and serving generative artificial intelligence
YouTube Trust & Safety, Software Engineering — Senior Engineering Manager (L7)
• Improved the performance of high-throughput pipelines by 1000x. Award: Performance Excellence
• Developed Large Language Model infrastructure and tooling, used by 40+ engineering projects and
300+ analysts to define complex insights. Awards: Engineering + Feature + Feature Excellence
Cloud Artificial Intelligence, Site Reliability Engineering — Senior Engineering Manager (L5→L7)
• Led the productionization of three flagship products. Unblocked $1B+ revenue.
• Redesigned capacity management, monitoring, rollouts, data integrity, and frameworks across 1K+
engineers. Saved $XXXM+ in computing resources and improved the reliability of 50+ products.
Awards: Cloud + Core + Google Tech Impact, Perfy, Tech Debt Busters, Tech Debt Busters
Datacenter Software, Site Reliability Engineering — Technical Leader/Engineering Manager (L5)
• Led the revamp of critical datacenter systems. Sped up the launch by one year.
Apps Storage, Site Reliability Engineering — Senior Software Engineer, Technical Leader (L4→L5)
• Deployed capacity models for products with 1B+ users. Saved $XXXM+ in computing resources.
• Led the company-wide migration to a new storage service. Award: Feats of Engineering
ADVOCACY People Leadership
• Co-authored a chapter on team overload for The Site Reliability Workbook published by O’Reilly.
• Designed and scaled the Leadership Wheel of Misfortune program to hundreds of sessions globally.
• Mentored and coached hundreds of engineers, technical leaders, managers, interns, and apprentices.
• Keynote speaker on career and technical topics at various universities.
Technical Influence
• Published an article on capacity management best practices in USENIX ;login: magazine.
• Published talks on Google production environment, resources, and Paxos. Achieved 210K views.
EDUCATION University of Granada, 2004 – 2014
Research fellow on computer vision and compilers, led a thesis on music languages. Award: Best Thesis.
Master in Research, Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems. GPA 9.3/10.
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Engineering. GPA 8.7/10. Award: 1st in Class.
Master of Science, Computer Science. GPA 9.2/10. Awards: 1st in Class, National Award, Best Thesis.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems Engineering. GPA 8.7/10. Award: 1st in Class.
LANGUAGES Spanish (Native), English (C2), German (B2), Swiss German (B1), and Esperanto (B1)
Personal Projects
Inpaint Crop and Stitch – ComfyUI nodes
Developed ComfyUI nodes for generative artificial intelligence image inpainting that increase
prompt adherence, output quality, and performance by cropping the image around the masked
area, resizing it to the model’s preferred resolution, and then seamlessly restitching and blending
it back in place.
Achieved 730K downloads and 1.1K GitHub stars.
Links: Comfy Registry, GitHub
qFT8 – Android Application for Amateur Radio
Developed an Android application for amateur radio communication using the FT8 digital
mode with a portable transceiver. This application became the gold standard for portable
FT8 operations.
Achieved 700+ monthly users and a rating of 4.6/5.
Links: Homepage, Google Play Store, GitHub, Direct Download
Windlereye – Music Project
Created a fictional alternative rock band leveraging generative artificial intelligence. Wrote the
lyrics to over 200 original songs, ran a manual iterative process to generate them, and did heavy
post-production to ensure high audio quality.
Achieved 60K streams.
Presented as a keynote at the
GenAI Zürich 2026
conference.
Links: Homepage, Spotify, YouTube Music, YouTube, Apple Music, Shop, Direct Download
Mi Libro De – Book Series
Leveraged generative AI to author and illustrate three Spanish-language children’s books. These
range from interactive monster readings to humorous school adventures and science fiction tales
designed to improve comprehension.
Achieved 20K downloads and a rating of 4.2/5 over 1000+ reviews.
Links: Homepage, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Paperback, Google Play Books, Direct Download
