Luis Quesada
Engineering Leader
luisquesada.com | GitHub | Recommendations
Contact via linkedin.com/in/luisquesadatorres
SUMMARY Strategic Engineering Leader with a proven track record of architecting and executing long-term technical
visions across Software and Site Reliability Engineering. Driving alignment with executive stakeholders,
fostering innovation, and building top-performing organizations that deliver measurable business value.
INDUSTRY Google, 2014 – currently
Geo, Software Engineering — Senior Engineering Manager (L7)
• Developing Google-wide infrastructure, both applying and serving generative artificial intelligence
Award: Geo Tech Impact
YouTube Trust & Safety, Software Engineering — Senior Engineering Manager (L7)
• Reengineered large pipelines, improved performance by 1000x. Award: Performance Excellence
• Architected and deployed LLM infrastructure and tooling. Enabled 40+ engineering projects and
300+ analysts to extract complex insights. Awards: Engineering + Feature + Feature Excellence
Cloud Artificial Intelligence, Site Reliability Engineering — Senior Engineering Manager (L5→L7)
• Directed the productionization of 3 flagship products, unlocking $XXXXM revenue.
• Architected the technical strategy for 7 production areas (capacity management, platforms, service
level objectives and key customer monitoring, geo-expansion, pre-production stack, data integrity,
and model inference) spanning 1K+ engineers and 50+ products, and led 70 engineers to execute.
Delivered savings of $XXXM in computing resources and significantly improved product reliability.
Awards: Cloud + Core + Google Tech Impact, Perfy, Tech Debt Busters x2
Datacenter Software, Site Reliability Engineering — Technical Leader/Engineering Manager (L5)
• Orchestrated the modernization of critical datacenter systems. Accelerated the launch by a full 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 220K views.
EDUCATION University of Granada
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 using Generative Artificial Intelligence
ComfyUI-InpaintCropAndStitch – ComfyUI Nodes for Inpainting
Developed ComfyUI nodes for generative 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 940K downloads and 1.2K GitHub stars.
Links: Comfy Registry, GitHub
qFT8 – Mobile and Desktop Application for Amateur Radio
Developed an amateur radio application supporting 16 modes and 70+ radio models. Featured
in FUNKAMATEUR 08/2026. Also designed the LQ digital mode family, whose optimized frame
encoding delivers 1.5x the throughput of FT8 and 4x in pile-ups with zero propagation penalty.
Achieved 8K monthly users and a rating of 4.92/5.
Links: Homepage, Google Play Store, GitHub, Direct Download; LQ8: Homepage, arXiv, GitHub
Windlereye – Music Project
Wrote lyrics and leveraged generative artificial intelligence to produce over 200 original songs. Invited
as keynote speaker at the GenAI Zürich 2026 conference, as a panelist on AI: Heaven or Hype? at
the After the Algorithm Zürich 2026 art festival, and as a speaker at the Swiss AI weeks Hack Zurich
hackathon and the Grüezi Google Techtalks: AI Innovation event of the Zürich AI Festival.
Achieved 100K streams and 4K monthly listeners.
Links: Homepage, Spotify, YouTube Music, YouTube, Apple Music, Shop, Direct Download
ECHOLOC – Horror Video Game
Developed a first-person horror roguelite game where the player is blind and sees only by echolocation:
every tongue click sketches the dark in a wave of dots, but the creatures can hear it too. Features
seven procedural levels, twelve creatures, and 3D spatial audio.
Achieved X monthly users and a rating of X/5 (just launched).
Links: Homepage, itch.io, GitHub
Mi Libro De – Book Series
Authored and used generative artificial intelligence workflows to illustrate, three Spanish-language
children’s books. Spanning themes of fantastic creatures, school humor, fantasy, and science fiction,
the books are strategically designed to enhance reading comprehension and engagement.
Achieved 20K downloads and a rating of 4.2/5 over 1000+ reviews.
Links: Homepage, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Paperback, Google Play Books, Direct Download