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Manuel de la Peña

Staff Software Engineer, Docker

Manuel de la Peña is an open source software engineer at Docker on the Clients & SDKs team, where he focuses on developer tooling and maintains Testcontainers for Go. He’s spent two decades across the software lifecycle — from public sector engineering in Castilla-La Mancha to roles in consulting, product companies, and open source. Previously, he worked on core engineering at Liferay, led QA for Liferay Cloud, and supported engineering productivity for Elastic Observability.

Before joining Docker, Manuel contributed to Testcontainers at AtomicJar. He helps teams ship with confidence by improving quality through automation and testing. Based in Toledo, Spain, he organizes GDG Toledo and speaks at international events. You’ll find him online as “mdelapenya.”

Located in:

Toledo, Spain

More by Manuel

May 1, 2026

A Virtual Agent team at Docker: How the Coding Agent Sandboxes team uses a fleet of agents to ship faster

Learn how Docker uses a fleet of AI agents in CI to test, triage, and fix code automatically, helping teams ship faster with secure sandboxes.

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Conference

MCPconference London

Join Docker for a workshop at the MCPconference in London on Thursday Feb 12. ​Co-located with ContainerDays London! Your ticket gives you full access to both MCPconference and ContainerDays London — two shows, one pass, two full days of content and community. Dive deep into MCP and the future of agentic AI, while also tapping into one…

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Jul 17, 2025

GoFiber v3 + Testcontainers: Production-like Local Dev with Air

Simplify local Go dev with Fiber v3’s new Services API + Testcontainers. Run real DBs in sync with your app—faster loops, fewer hacks.

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Mar 13, 2025

Shift-Left Testing with Testcontainers: Catching Bugs Early with Local Integration Tests

Learn how integration tests can help you catch defects earlier in the developers inner loop and how Testcontainers can make them feel as easy as unit tests.

Anna Chernyshova
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Aug 14, 2023

Local Development of Go Applications with Testcontainers

Learn how you can use Testcontainers for Go for testing and local development to provision application dependencies.

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May 4, 2023

Creating Modules in Testcontainers for Go

Learn how to craft your own Testcontainers module for Go.

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