Roberto Perez Alcolea

Roberto Perez Alcolea is a Software Engineer at Netflix who focuses on the JVM development lifecycle, spanning build automation and testing infrastructure. With a deep appreciation for the JVM ecosystem and Build Tools, he works on improving how Netflix engineers build, test, and publish software.

Roberto contributes to maintaining Netflix's build-package-publish infrastructure through Nebula (Gradle) plugins, helping with dependency management and artifact publishing across the organization's projects. He's also involved in testing strategy initiatives, including working on E2E testing frameworks that incorporate observability and failure analysis.

Roberto advocates for modern integration testing practices and helps teams adopt container-based testing approaches, which led him to become a Testcontainers Community Champion. He enjoys sharing knowledge at conferences, contributing to open-source projects, and collaborating with engineers on testing best practices.

Roberto believes strongly in community-driven innovation and enjoys both learning from fellow engineers and sharing his experiences to help advance the broader JVM and testing communities.