David Fernandez

Chief Technology Officer at BNP Paribas Personal Finance South Europe Technologies

Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

About

Multidisciplinary IT professional with a strong business background. Passionate for innovation, efficiency, security and architecture. Working together with my teams in all aspects of IT projects and IT processes, from enterprise IT strategy definition to IT project and IT services creation and industrialization. Equally enjoy shaping IT transformation plans than deploying a kubernetes cluster. I like well-done things, teach and learn, innovate and challenges that push myself to the limit.

Experience

  • BNP Paribas Personal Finance (Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain)
    • Chief Technology Officer
      Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Leading technology activities in SET Agile@Scale Tribe, an international IT & Data & Cyber Hub in BNPP Personal Finance. Creation and industrialization of IT & Data Services by building empowered and multidisciplinary teams, setting up processes and creation of the proper environment for ideation, personal and professional development, self-management and excel in Architecture, Integration Platforms, DevSecOps, Technology & IT Service Management

    • Architecture & Technology Manager
      Sep 2020 - Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      BNPP Personal Finance South Europe Technologies (SET) is one the 2 internal IT & Data & Cyber hubs providing services to the different business lines of BNPP Personal Finance worldwide. As SET architecture & technology manager I participate in shaping the global BNPP Personal Finance shared service center strategy and implementation of ADM transformation initiatives like agile-at-scale, devops, move-to-cloud, api management and data management.

  • BNP Paribas Cardif (Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area)
    • Lead Enterprise Architect
      Dec 2017 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Enterprise architect for Spain and Portugal in charge of local enterprise architecture (information system urbanization, functional and technical reference architectures, rules and principles, technology harmonization, IT strategy & transformation plans, roadmaps, etc.). Design, validation against head office and technical project management of the main IT projects of the company ensuring alignment with business & IT strategy and requirements, re-usability, maintainability and efficiency. Transversal coordination leading different multidisciplinary teams and/or architecture of tens of projects and programs , notably: GDPR Data protection & Anonymization Main digital transformation project of BNP Paribas Cardif  focusing on aftersales, CX, automation and analytics. (2018 Innovation Award in BNP Paribas group worldwide)  Data governance Insurance core solutions migration Massive infrastructure and application migration to regional datacenter Devops adoption Automation and improvement of IT processes Architecture documentation repository and CMDBs maintenance (reference architectures, project architecture deliverables, Application Inventory & Technology CMDB, data lineage, blueprints, functional maps) representing the status of the current IS system. Together with local and head office management, architecture and security teams, helped in local and regional IS strategic plan composition. Assisting local and head office business and technical teams in tenders, RFPs, MVP definition, provider and solution evaluation. Reporting to local and head office CIO, COO and architecture teams. Technical skills: DAMA, TOGAF, Agile, Red Hat, Windows, IAAS & managed cloud, DWH, BI, SQL Server, Oracle Database, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, OpenAPI, BPM, BPMN, Neo4j, GraphQL, Collibra, Enterprise Architect, UML, Mega Hopex, Gemalto SafeNet, SAML, .NET, dotnet, Microservices, Springboot, ISO 20000, ITIL

    • Solution Architect
      Dec 2016 - Nov 2017 · 1 yr

      On behalf of Sidertia Solutions, working as a solution architect in different projects, notably: Datacenter Transformation (full server and application virtualization with VMware and Citrix, OS, middleware and application obsolescence correction by upgrading technologies and/or code). Datacenter migration (partial relocation of applications and servers to Cardif mutualized European Datacenter, including design of technical, security and infrastructure architecture and IT service & operations. Validation of project with head office) Technical skills: Windows Server, Red Hat, IAAS, IIS, .NET, SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Oracle Database, Citrix XenApp, Vmware

  • Senior Developer & Security Consultant at Sidertia Solutions
    Jun 2014 - Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Senior consultant in the IT Security and Secure Application Development department of Sidertia Solutions, a specialized company in penetration testing, ethical hacking and security solutions development. High proficiency in pentesting of applications, systems and networks according to OWASP and OSSTMM methodologies. During three years member of the audit team in charge of penetration testing of renowned web applications like the ones of the Olympic Games, ministries, banks, telcos, universities, local and international companies. Participated as well in audits of mobile and virtualized applications and internal and external network audits, discovering several 0-days in the process. Training of state security forces teams in charge of national cybersecurity in pentesting and malware analysis. Fuzzer, hacking tools and security solutions development. Part of Clara by Centro Criptologico Nacional development team. Security researcher with more than 21 0-days published in well known commercial firewalls, frameworks, web servers, web browsers, mail clients. Regular publishing of security articles about fuzzing, reversing and exploiting in 64 bits platforms in PentestMag and corporative blog. Technical skills: Burp Suite, IDAPro, WinDbg, Nessus, Kali, sqlmap, nmap, Peach Fuzzer, radamsa, .NET MVC, Entity Framework, HTML5, CSS3, JS, git

  • Magento developer & Project Manager at Interactiv4
    Feb 2013 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Magento frontend and backend developer soon promoted to project manager. Frontend (web & mobile) and backend (modules & ERP integrations) with agile methodologies. Part of the development team of important e-commerce projects like Adolfo Dominguez, ElGanso, BQ Mobile, Santafixie, Unode50, AsproParks. Participated in the evolution of the branching strategies of the team and the implementation of continuos integration. Technology skills: git, bitbucket, jira, jenkins, php, zend server, mysql, Magento, javascript, sass, less, xml

  • Oil & Emissions Head of Brokerage at Iristone Energy Brokers SLNE
    Mar 2009 - Jan 2013 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Petroleum products brokering company working in the Mediterranean and NWE markets on behalf of Shell, BP, TNK-BP and LyondellBasell. Built a business network from scratch and brokered and negotiated contracts amounting more than 150M dollars.