Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain
Senior Engineering Manager with 10+ years of experience managing individuals who enjoy helping out teams and individuals succeed. Supporting and growing the individuals that work surrounding me. I value and encourage teamwork, a continuous improvement mindset, delivering value to customers, commitment, empowerment, and humility. I have comprehensive experience in leading and working with engineering teams in the architecture, specification, and implementation of complex, highly scalable, and performant systems. I am a Software engineer interested in software analysis, architecture, and development. The Web has been my focus. I love to build things with quality, from the conception to the deployment. I take the software that I write very seriously while having an extreme passion for being the best I can be at doing what I love to do.
As the Engineering Manager for the Abstract Wikipedia team at Wikimedia Foundation, to create a language-independent version of Wikipedia.
ππ¨π₯π: As a Senior Engineering Manager at Toptal, I led a dynamic organization of up to 20 people distributed in four teams, including four teams of senior engineers. I focused on driving impactful initiatives and fostering a learning and continuous improvement culture. I managed Toptalβs internship program and led the Developer Intelligence team, which played critical roles in enhancing the companyβs engineering capabilities and operational efficiency. β€ Leadership & Program Development: Spearheaded Toptal's internship program for the talent network and prospective candidates, graduating nearly 100 participants and establishing the program as a primary entry point to the engineering department. β€ Mentorship & Learning Pathways: Managed four teams dedicated to coaching apprentices while developing internal tools and products. Created six distinct learning paths and introduced a comprehensive system for evaluating and tracking candidate progress. β€ Led Developer Intelligence Team focused on providing insights and metrics, empowering engineering to make data-driven decisions. Shipped: β€ Incident Management System: Developed an incident management system that significantly improved response times and provided metrics to help teams reduce incidents. β€ Performance System Optimization: Enhanced the performance management system, reducing feedback and performance review costs while increasing the volume of feedback and employee satisfaction. Other achievements: β€ Part of the High Potential program inside of Toptal.
ππ¨π₯π: Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudbeds. Working on the distribution vertical, leading the Distributed Systems team and the Channel manager team. β€ Lead two teams of 9 software engineers, the distribution systems team in charge of making systems scalable, driving the engineering team into the microservices architecture; and the channel manager team distributing our inventory along +300 online booking channels. β€ Responsibilities include technical product definition and mid-term/long-term vision, technological leadership, delivery and team growth, team health, and individuals progression. β€ Partner with the leadership to create the engineering departmentβs career path and drive the engineering teamβs calibration. ππ‘π’π©π©ππ: β€ Drive the technology transformation into microservices. β€ Along that time, the channel manager team was able to attain a premier partnership with Booking.com. β€ Partner with Google to be part of the Google Hotel Search pilot.
ππππ‘ πππππ€: Golang, Redis, MySQL, NSQ, gRPC, Google Cloud Platform. ππ¨π₯π: Senior Engineering manager at Cabify. Working on the Match team. β€ Lead the creation of the Maps & Routes team. β€ Lead a group of 7 software engineers collaborating with product and data science to improve our marketplace. β€ Responsibilities include technical product definition and long-term/mid-term vision, technological leadership, team growth, team health, and individuals progression. ππ‘π’π©π©ππ: We were in charge of the matcher, matching thousands of riders and drivers per matching round. β€ Lead the creation of the Maps & Routes squad responsible for delivering the tools for providing routes and ETAs solutions for Cabify. β€ That team reduced the operational cost of Cabify on other map services by more than a half in less than one year. By that time, the operating cost of mapping services was one of the companyβs highest expenses. β€ Ship a tool to replace Google maps on calculations of ETAs based on a machine learning model that predicts ETAs. Later we extend that tool to replace Google Maps on routes calculation.
ππππ‘ πππππ€: Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Oracle, Kafka, Google Cloud Platform. ππ¨π₯π: Tech Lead at Stubhub(an eBay company) worked on several teams across the company, like Delivery & Fulfillment, international, Buyer Experience, and Financial Services. β€ Leading multiple teams of 10+ software engineers collaborating with product, design, and business to deliver delightful user experiences. β€ Responsibilities for this role include product definition and vision, technical leadership, and team management. ππ‘π’π©π©ππ: β€ Lead the transformation of multiple services into Cloud Native Services. β€ Drive the monolith extraction into microservices and bringing them into the cloud. πππ‘ππ« πππ‘π’ππ―ππ¦ππ§ππ¬: β€ Member of the SDLC Committee of the company. β€ Organizer of the Engineering culture team inside Stubhub.