Ignacio Huerta
Senior software developer. Architecture, scaling, security, auditing.
Ten-plus years in senior development and architecture roles across a broad range of platforms: UNIX hardening, dependency management, penetration testing, OWASP, zero trust, private LLM deployments, PCI certification, and software team leadership.
Selected work
- Software Architect · Digital payments for automotive
- A new digital payments channel for a leading German automotive company, from design, implementation, certification with financial institutions and public release across Europe.
- Engineering Lead · Cloud platform for recruitment
- Design, architecture and delivery of a cloud platform and search engine for a major German recruiting company.
- Senior Backend Developer · Auditing cloud solution
- An award-winning tool that automates the preparation of annual financial reports, built for one of the largest accounting firms in the world.
Community
- Copenhagen Ruby Brigade — past organiser and regular speaker
- Copenhagen Suborbitals — long-term volunteering in a non-profit space programme
Code
Off the clock
- Mountain biking, ideally in mud
- Linux — laptops, servers, and a growing home lab
- Ruby — my favourite way to build software
- Local AI — self-hosted models on my own hardware
- Space — hence Copenhagen Suborbitals above