Fractional CTO and AI consultant Madrid, Spain

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(Updated 2023-10-23)

Fractional CTO and AI consultant

Madrid, Spain

Native Spanish, Fluent English, Intermediate French

  • Experiencia desarrollando varios productos desde 0
  • 15+ años de experiencia desarrollando software
  • Experiencia gestionando equipos multidisciplinares

Skills (26)

Manager

Agile Methodologies

Agile

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

CTO

DISPATCHING

JavaScript

CLIENTS

Kanban

OPERATIONS

PRODUCT DESIGN

MENTORING

ELB

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

PRODUCT ROADMAP

Scrum

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Python

NodeJS

Django

Node.js

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN

Terraform

Jira

MEC

UX

Summary

Driven software engineer with 15 years of experience in various roles
within teams delivering products and solutions across multiple industries.
Built several products, like: A personalization service that provides movie
recommendations to 100k users in 15 countries, or a SAAS for customer
tracking with AI and computer vision deployed in dozens of locations in
several countries (USA, EU, MENA). Currently working as a freelance
fractional CTPO helping startup and scaleup tech teams to work better
through agile methodologies, lean startup methodologies, DevOps
practices and a culture of continuous improvement.

Professional Experience

FRACTIONAL CTPO

2023-02 - Present

Analyzed, planned, and helped in the execution to transform the technology strategy of companies to better align with their business goals.
Put emphasis on fostering a culture of continuous improvement, customer orientation, and data-driven decision making among technical teams.
● (Alimentium) designed and implemented a roadmap to facilitate the transition into a Product-oriented company. This involved introducing OKRs, shifting the company culture from task-centric to goal-centric, boosting agile and mentoring managers to change the culture of the company.
● (Confidential) Audited the source code and mobile app for a startup building a Sport social media. Offered detailed reports on quality and scalability of the application.
● (Confidential) Introduced Kanban into the company to help them better organize the flow of work and gain productivity. Reduced task dispatching time by half. Empowered the team to self-organize how they manage work.
Dive.tech

2018-11 - 2022-11

Led the transformation of the tech team into a team that delivers highquality AI-first software. Built a family of products that track customers (anonymously) and people in the physical world to obtain actionable data to transform how business and public organizations operate.
● Defined the cultural values and methodologies. Introduced agile, Scrum, OKRs, and DevOps methodologies.
● Led the product design in close collaboration with customers, UX designers, and product agencies. Led the design and deliver of 7 AI products.
● Defined the technical strategy, the tech stack, the cloud, and onpremise infrastructures in accordance with the product strategy and the product roadmap.
● Built the whole technology department, Hiring talent: developers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, DevOps, scrum masters, ● and product owners. Scaled the tech team from 5 to 28 people in 4 teams.
● Set up the Customer Success team and defined the implementation and scaling strategy. Put in place L1-L2-L3 support for the products.
● Deployed these products in several countries in 3 continents with hundreds of cameras processed in real-time on dozens of shops, shopping malls and public administration buildings.
TECHNICAL LEAD (FREELANCE)
Optiva Media

2016-06 - 2018-11

Designed and developed a highly scalable distributed system for processing big volumes of metadata for TV. Acted as tech lead leading technical and architectural decisions in line with the business goals.
● Designed and developed the system using NodeJS, Elasticsearch, MariaDB, and multiple AWS services.
● Mentored the team on agile methodologies and best practices: S crum, code reviews, continuous integration, distributed systems, observability, and operations, ● Deployed the system for Vodafone and Orange Spain, obtaining a process time speed up by 10x and reducing total operations costs by 70%.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER AND AWS TRAINER

2016-06 - 2017-10

● (AWS Trainer) Taught a week course on Amazon Web Services.
● (Software Developer/Architect) Architected and developed a system's backend (Python, Django, MySQL, Docker) to fight fraud in Sports TV.
STARTUP CO-FOUNDER
TripApp

2014-09 - 2016-04

Built a travel platform for sharing one-day city trip itineraries created by locals for travelers.
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Amadeus

2011-03 - 2015-08

Initially worked for the Rail Division at Amadeus New Businesses Unit architecting and developing microservices to integrate Trenitalia and SNCF into Amadeus GDS. At a later stage worked for Air Availability Division to optimize flight search API calls response time.
● (On Rail Division) Architected and developed several microservices from scratch to handle rail bookings. Stack: C++, Linux, Micro Servs.
● (On the Air Division) Worked reducing the response time for flight search calls from seconds to milliseconds. C++, Python, Oracle DB.
C++ SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Blom ASA

2008-01 - 2011-02

Developed tools and applications to produce, enhance and serve 3- dimensional maps of world cities made of aerial imagery.

Academic Background

Complutense University of Madrid
Complutense University of Madrid

2002-09 - 2008-07

Complutense University of Madrid
Complutense University of Madrid

2023-10 - 2007-01

Certifications

AWS Developer Associate
SCRUM Master Certified
Certified Coach - Ongoing
Certified Coach

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