Samir El Azem Crovetto
+20 Years of Technical Experience

Samir El Azem Crovetto

Secure Application Development | Artificial Intelligence | DevSecOps

Computer Engineer and Master's in Cybersecurity with over 20 years of professional experience in high-availability backend architecture, application security, and AI systems.

Engineering Principles

  • Radical Pragmatism: No accidental complexity. Clean designs built for production reliability.
  • Security by Design (Zero Trust): API hardening, strict input sanitization, and AI model safeguards.
  • Agentic AI with Specification (SDD): Formal specification-driven development and deterministic test suites.

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer (Backend & DevSecOps) — Xtremis (L3Harris)

2025 - Actualidad | Remoto / España

Software engineering for mission-critical and high-availability communications in enterprise and defense regulated environments, enforcing rigorous resilience and security-by-design principles.

  • Architecture of real-time messaging and streaming services with fault tolerance.
  • Backend service hardening and proactive attack surface reduction across segmented networks.
  • Modular design focused on observability and maximum operational reliability.

Senior Backend & Cloud Engineer — Blue Code (GeodanMaps / Sogelink)

2023 - 2025 | Remoto / España

Development and modernization of large-scale cloud-native geospatial platforms, massive GIS data processing, and containerized microservice architectures.

  • Deployment and tuning of microservices on Google Cloud Platform with Kubernetes (GKE).
  • Refactoring data pipelines and REST APIs using Spring Boot and Python for sub-second latency.
  • Implementation of CI/CD security gates and automated vulnerability scanning.

Senior Backend & Systems Developer — Xtremis (Ericsson)

2020 - 2023 | Remoto / España

Design and development of high-throughput telecom infrastructure and secure messaging systems for international telecom programs.

  • Development of low-latency Java EE services with end-to-end encrypted WebSockets.
  • Automated integration testing via Docker Testcontainers for isolated distributed environments.
  • Concurrent performance profiling and JVM memory optimization under heavy load.

Full Stack & AI Software Engineer — ROBINBRICK

2019 - 2020 | Murcia / Remoto

End-to-end engineering of an AI analytics platform optimizing operations and customer journeys in retail spaces.

  • Architecture of reactive microservices in Spring Boot paired with Angular SPAs.
  • Real-time data ingestion and processing deployed across AWS infrastructure.
  • Integration of predictive analytics models for executive decision dashboards.

Senior Analyst Programmer & Technical Consultant — Getronics Iberia

2008 - 2019 | Murcia / España

Over a decade of technical leadership, enterprise software architecture, and strategic project delivery for Public Administrations and large corporations.

  • Design and deployment of critical electronic administration and interoperability platforms.
  • Evolution and refactoring of legacy enterprise systems into modern modular service architectures.
  • Technical mentoring of engineering teams and establishment of clean code and testing standards.

Education & Certifications

Master's Degree in Cybersecurity and Information Security

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (2018 - 2019)

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Universidad de Murcia (2002 - 2006)

Technical Degree in Computer Systems Engineering

Universidad de Murcia (1998 - 2002)

Certifications

  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) (EC-Council - 2019)
  • Fundamentals of Agents (Hugging Face - 2025)