Manuel de la Peña

Manuel is an OSS Software Engineer at Docker where he works in the Clients & SDKs team, also maintaining "Testcontainers for Go". Since 2003, he has held various roles in different parts of the development process, starting in 2003 working for the regional public administration in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) until 2007, then worked at more traditional consulting firms. In 2011, he transitioned to product-oriented and Open Source companies, where he has served as a support engineer, trainer, and Core Engineer at Liferay, as QA Tech lead at Liferay Cloud. From 2019 to 2022 he was involved in Engineering Productivity at Elastic as part of the Observability product, and since 2022 doing pure OSS at AtomicJar, which was acquired by Docker in Dec' 23. In every job he tries to improve the quality of the software products and processes from the automation and testing point of view. He has also founded and managed a couple of small web development and systems consulting companies. Additionally, he organises the Google Developers Group in Toledo, Spain (GDG Toledo), where they run monthly discussions about software in its various aspects, serving as a small community outside the bustling Madrid. Manuel has delivered talks at different national and international events too. Manuel holds a BS in Computer Science (UNED Spain), and a master degree in Research in Software Engineering and Information Systems (UNED Spain). You can find him on Internet as "mdelapenya" everywhere.