Hi, I'm

Cibrán Docampo Piñeiro

Cibrán Docampo

About me

I'm from Cangas, a small seaside town in the heart of the Rías Baixas — steeped in salt air, rich in maritime spirit and tradition, and watched over by the incredible Cíes Islands. Hard not to feel proud of that.

As a kid, while others wanted to be astronauts or footballers, I was set on being an inventor. I never really grew out of it — I just found a more practical name for it.

That's what led me to engineering. Not quite the same thing, but close enough to keep building things that (hopefully) make people's lives a bit better.

Turns out, that's all I was really after.

And beyond the code, that same curiosity still shows up in different ways.

Scroll down — you'll see what I mean.

It's me

Traveling

Not just to switch off — though that too. The real pull is seeing the world through someone else's eyes. Different cultures rewire something in you, if you let them.

Building Things

I still love building with Lego. And deep down, the material doesn't really matter — bricks, timber or code: the pull to create something new never quite goes away.

Aeronautics

Everything that flies fascinates me. I spend a lot of time trying to understand it — though in practice I just fly a small drone and try to keep it away from anything important.

Trainera (rowing)

From the outside it doesn't look like much fun. It would already be worth it just to be out on the water — but the real magic is the trust and complicity you build with a whole crew.

Cetaceans & Birds

Sounds nerdy. It is. But once you start noticing the world around you at that level, you can't stop — it stops being a hobby and becomes a need.

Music

The pepper of life. It fills the gaps between everything else — and it's even better if you play. Three guitar chords and a set of bagpipes is apparently enough.

A few numbers

🌍 179 Destinations explored
21 countries across 5 continents
📸 429k+ Photos taken
3 cameras trying to capture the world as it is
🎧 823 Artists last year
Spotify Wrapped said "too much". I call it curiosity.
🐳 380+ Whales encountered
52 uniquely identified on HappyWhale
🐧 124 Bird species logged
logged on eBird. The real number? unknowable.
🛸 728 km "dronned"
A1–A3 certified. No heads harmed. Yet.

Resume

Telecommunications engineer with over a decade across very different domains — IPTV and video streaming, digital signage, border security, big data and last-mile delivery. That variety has meant working with a wide mix of technologies, languages, frameworks, databases and infrastructure stacks.

The only constant is change. I've learned to enjoy that.

Highlights

Software & Data Engineering

Over a decade designing and building software across very different sectors — from IPTV and broadcast, through maritime surveillance and e-health, to observability platforms processing hundreds of millions of events a day. That variety has two inevitable effects: a technology list that never stops growing, and an ever-sharper understanding of the real needs of each project and each client.

My journey covers the full cycle: requirements gathering, technology analysis, architecture design, data modelling, implementation, deployment and operations. With experience across frontend, backend and DevOps — but passionate about backend, large-scale data management and exploitation, and integration with external services to build ecosystems, not just products.

Beyond work, I am passionate about continuing to learn and giving something back. I have designed, built and run several personal projects in production — because the best way to learn something new is to build it for real.

I love a well-defined architecture and clean, maintainable, efficient code — without taking it to obsession. And fortunately, a great companion has arrived to help with that. AI.

Multimedia & AV Engineering

Multimedia engineering is, without doubt, the most exciting part of my career. From acoustic design and venue sound, through audiovisual production and scenography, to low-level video transcoding.

My main experience has been designing innovative multimedia solutions for special spaces: interactive fashion retail stores, touch-sensitive floors in shopping centres, and VR and AR solutions for car dealerships worldwide.

Tech Lead

Leading is not simply about showing the way. It is about walking alongside, inspiring, and creating the conditions for every person on the team to grow and give their best.

I have led multidisciplinary teams on high-complexity, high-performance projects, and worked as Team Lead of software development squads — always with the same focus: leaving the team better than I found it.

Teamwork is not an option. It is the option.

Experience

Obsly Business Intelligence

Real-time observability & business intelligence platform

  • Building new platform features and analytics dashboards for real-time event processing at scale.
  • Event-driven architecture, time-series databases, LLM-powered natural language query generation.
Python PostgreSQL Event-driven LLM Observability
WinDelivery by Glovo Delivery

Food delivery integration for restaurant chains

  • Tech lead for an integration platform connecting brands like Burger King, Popeyes and Telepizza with POS systems and delivery aggregators.
  • Scalable event-driven architecture on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS). CI/CD and CloudWatch monitoring.
Python Flask AWS Event-driven Tech Lead
Savia — MAPFRE eHealth

Health insurance and e-health platform

  • Backend team on the redesign of MAPFRE's health platform towards a modular, multi-vertical architecture.
  • Python, Django REST Framework, Oscar Commerce, Stripe, Celery.
Python Django DRF Celery Docker
Telefónica R&D Media & TV

Device management for set-top boxes and OTT players

  • Device management platforms for STBs and OTT players used by millions of Telefónica customers.
  • High-performance REST APIs, Prometheus/Grafana observability, modernisation of legacy multicast STB tools.
Python Sanic Prometheus C++ Docker
Maritime Surveillance Security

Border control and maritime surveillance platform

  • Real-time integration of AIS feeds, SIVE radar networks and FIWARE/Orion Context Broker for national security agencies.
  • Event-driven Redis Streams for high-resilience data pipelines in low-connectivity environments.
Python Django Vue.js Redis FIWARE
Porsche Digitalisation Automotive

Digital transformation for Porsche Spain dealerships

  • Tech lead for digital transformation across 570 Porsche dealerships worldwide.
  • HelpDesk setup, monitoring software, Augmented Reality integrations, DjangoRF and Vue.js.
DjangoRF Vue.js AR Docker Tech Lead
Multimedia & AV AV Integration

Enterprise audio-visual integration projects

  • New multimedia product development in an Open Innovation environment with startup mentoring and partner integrations.
  • Technological consultant for the Inditex group — conceptualisation of retail and automotive spaces.
AI/ML AR/VR Django Audio Product
Inditex HQ AV Integration

Integrated AV ecosystem for Inditex's global headquarters

  • Full AV integration across auditorium, press room, immersive creative space and a 15,000 m² innovation building in A Coruña.
  • Auditorium features Europe's largest 1.9 mm LED screen (9,280 × 2,060 px), Meyer Sound acoustics, and support for 90 simultaneous displays.
LED AV Meyer Sound Video Mapping
Ecoalf Flagship Store Retail Tech

Immersive digital ecosystem for sustainable retail

  • LED screens, interactive totems and marine projections integrated into Ecoalf's flagship store in Madrid.
  • Technology as environmental storytelling — ocean protection, circular production and recycling brought to life.
LED Interactive Content Retail
X Madrid Retail Tech

Spain's first anti-shopping center

  • Immersive AV ecosystem across Spain's most disruptive retail space — LED, lighting, and interactive digital installations.
  • Winner of AV Awards 2020 Commercial Project of the Year. European reference for experiential retail.
LED Interactive Lighting AV Awards
Arenas de Barcelona Digital Signage

Large-scale LED installation in a landmark shopping centre

  • Over 180 m² of digital screens — including a 64 m interactive circular floor and a 62 m suspended perimeter display.
  • Completed in three weeks of nighttime installations inside a protected heritage building. Winner of Digital Signage Awards 2019.
LED Digital Signage Content DS Awards
Baleària Ferry Maritime

AV transformation of the world's largest LNG passenger ferry

  • Full audiovisual integration aboard the Eleanor Roosevelt — LED welcome screen, digital signage, interactive kids' area and multi-zone audio across all decks.
  • A benchmark for how digitalisation and sustainability can coexist at sea.
LED Digital Signage Audio Maritime
AENA — Barajas & El Prat Digital Signage

Digital transformation of Madrid and Barcelona airports

  • Large-format LED screens along Terminal 4 walkways at Barajas and vertical LED cubes integrated into El Prat's terminal pillars.
  • Benchmark for airport digitalisation balancing aesthetics, architecture and strict safety standards.
LED Digital Signage Airport High-traffic
Lagoh Mall Sevilla Retail Tech

Seville's largest mall transformed into an immersive 3.0 experience

  • Transparent LED elevators, holographic fountains, digital facades and a 360° interactive cylinder across Seville's biggest shopping centre.
  • Winner of AV Awards 2020 Retail Project of the Year and AV Integration Awards 2021.
LED Holographic Interactive AV Awards
Transcoder/Streamer Live Plus Media Tech

Multiscreen live transcoder and streamer in a single device

  • Up to 15 simultaneous video inputs, each with 3 adaptive output profiles — streamed via HLS, UDP or RTP to any screen.
  • HEVC support for LTE networks, adaptive bitrate, native multi-device web player with Chromecast and Apple TV casting.
C/C++ HLS HEVC Streaming Multiscreen
DVB MPTS Streaming Tools Broadcast

DVB MPTS stream analysis and manipulation

  • DVB MPTS stream analysis, manipulation and monitoring tools for broadcast engineering.
C++ Python DVB Broadcast
Arantia HE-21 IPTV Headend IPTV

Compact IPTV headend for operators, hospitality and public venues

  • Multi-standard reception (DVB-T/T2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-C, ATSC, HDMI, SDI, IP) encapsulated and streamed over IPTV networks.
  • HEVC & 4K compatible, modular design, web management tool. Deployed in hotels, airports, seaports and TV operators.
C/C++ DVB IPTV HEVC Embedded
Canal7 Rías Baixas OTT OTT

OTT streaming platform for regional TV

  • Deployment of the OTT Kaltura platform on AWS and integration with Wowza streaming server for Canal7 Rías Baixas.
AWS Kaltura Wowza OTT

Portfolio

Nudge
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Nudge

A gentle reminder app for recurring things — groceries, medications, filters, anything you tend to forget. Full-stack PWA with push notifications, sharing, and offline support.

Python Django React Celery Redis PWA
Web App
8,468
OVH DynDNS Client logo

OVH DynDNS Client

Lightweight DynDNS client for OVH domains. Keeps your DNS record in sync with your dynamic public IP — perfect for self-hosted setups behind a residential connection.

Python FastAPI OVH API Docker
Networking
4,586
Synology Video Enhancer logo

Synology Video Enhancer

Transcoding optimisation tool for Synology Photos. Automatically re-encodes videos to H.264 High Profile or H.265/HEVC, fixing the quality issues of Synology's default mobile transcoding pipeline.

Python FFmpeg Docker Synology
Synology & Video
3,442
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YourFisio

Physiotherapy management platform developed at Stickybit. Patient tracking, session scheduling and exercise prescription for clinics.

Angular Node.js MongoDB
Professional
eBird

eBird

Bird sightings logged on eBird — Cornell Lab's global citizen science platform. Just getting started with ornithology, but already hooked on finding and identifying species along the Galician coast.

Citizen Science Ornithology Wildlife
Citizen Science
HappyWhale
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HappyWhale

Contributed 50+ individual whale identifications to HappyWhale — a global cetacean research database. Fin whales and humpbacks off the Galician coast.

Citizen Science Marine Biology Wildlife Photography
Citizen Science
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CarbWise

Carbohydrate calculator built to help people with diabetes manage their diet. Look up carb values from official sources and calculate insulin doses — simple, fast and mobile-first.

JavaScript Nginx Docker
Web App
1,269
Lego Builder
Lego Builder logo

Lego Builder

A personal experiment — image recognition tool that identifies Lego bricks and suggests possible builds. Because why not?

Python Image Recognition Fun
Fun

Contact

Location

Cangas, Galicia, Spain

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Languages

Galician Native
Spanish Native
English Professional
Portuguese Enough to order coffee politely. Barely.

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