Yacht rentals
A system for renting yachts, built as a team. A rental is only confirmed if Stripe approves the payment, and if two requests for the same yacht come in at the same time, only one gets it: a yacht is never rented twice.
Stack
Guido Pallas, backend software engineer.
I design solutions sized to what the product needs today: no over-engineering, and easy to change when the time comes. Before writing any code I make sure I understand the problem, and I shape the solution together with product and business.
Download CV- Experience
- 10 years, since 2016
- Sectors
- Banking · Agri · SaaS
- I work with
- Python · Java
- I speak
- Spanish · English
Journey
What I've learned
Every stage had me starting almost from scratch with something new, and each one left something behind. What carried over through all of them is in the middle.
- Performance testing
- SOA / OSB
- Java services
- Microservices
- Python at scale
- AI-first mindset
- What's next? There's always more to learn.
- In all of them: Product focus, Solution design, Judgment, Quality, Performance
Track record
What I've worked with, where, and for how long.
- Python · DjangoInvGate4.7 yrs
- PostgreSQLIT Resources · InvGate6.6 yrs
- Claude CodeInvGate10 mo
- JavaAyi · IT Resources · Santander5.6 yrs
- Spring BootIT Resources · Santander4.0 yrs
- MongoDBSantander2.1 yrs
- SOAP servicesSantander2.1 yrs
- KafkaIT Resources1.9 yrs
- AWSIT Resources1.9 yrs
- ELK · observabilityIT Resources1.9 yrs
- AngularIT Resources1.9 yrs
- Languages and frameworks
- Data
- Integration and messaging
- Platform and tools
- Solid colour: in use today
Projects
Outside my day job.
Now · October 2026
Currently.
- Working
At InvGate, looking after the performance of a product that handles tons of IT infrastructure data.
- Interested in
Observability: metrics, traces and alerts to understand what's going on in a system before it goes down.
- AI-first
I work with Claude Code: planning, writing tests and building with agents, without lowering the bar on quality.