AV & Systems Engineer
Live Events · Event Networking · IP Infrastructure · Backend Systems · Operations mindset
I design, deploy and operate technical systems for live environments, combining audio engineering, networking and infrastructure.
My background comes from over 10 years working in high-pressure and high-availability environments such as broadcast, live events, videoconferencing and AV-over-IP systems, where reliability and fast problem solving are critical.
That experience shaped the way I approach technology today: system thinking, operational discipline, infrastructure reliability and real-world troubleshooting.
My work bridges physical systems and modern infrastructure: from FOH and sound system engineering to IP networking, backend services and on-prem environments.
- FOH / Monitor engineering
- Sound system design and optimization
- AV-over-IP systems (Dante, NDI)
- RF systems and live production environments
- Technical infrastructure for events
- VLANs, segmentation and managed switching
- Firewalling and network services
- Internal DNS and reverse proxy architectures
- Linux systems administration
- Infrastructure reliability and observability
- Spring Boot (Java)
- Docker & Docker Compose
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions
- Service-based architectures
- YAML-based declarative workflows
Currently expanding towards:
- Kubernetes (K3s)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Ansible)
Design and operation of a real on-prem infrastructure environment focused on:
- Network segmentation
- Internal services and DNS
- Reverse proxy architecture
- Monitoring and observability
- CI/CD pipelines
- Service orchestration
Focus: clarity, reliability and reproducible systems.
Development of backend services and infrastructure systems designed for real operational environments:
- Dockerized services
- Internal networking and routing
- API-driven services
- Automated deployments
- Infrastructure experimentation and monitoring
Personal engineering portfolio designed as a long-term technical and professional project.
Focused on:
- Clean architecture
- Versioned infrastructure
- Automated deployment workflows
- Maintainability and clarity
- Technical positioning across AV + infrastructure
- I design systems end-to-end, not isolated components
- I value clarity over unnecessary complexity
- I prioritize reliability and observability
- I come from operations, so failure modes matter
- I build systems to be maintainable and understandable
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raul-lopez-penalva
- Personal website: https://raullopezpenalva.com
- WeaverThreads: https://weaver.cat
