Denver, Colorado, United States
As the Chief Technology Officer at Atama, I lead the development and delivery our Saas platform that allows companies to execute true composable architecture in order to deliver digital experiences. I have over 15 years of experience in digital experience management and marketing technology, and I am passionate about leveraging the power of headless and composable architectures, platforms, and systems. With 10 years of enterprise platform architecture experience and engineering practice management, I have supported many Fortune 500 brands in achieving their digital growth or transformation goals. I have deep expertise in headless CMS and commerce, customer data platforms, Adobe Experience Manager, and other content management systems, as well as Adobe Experience Platform, personalization and analytics, marketing automation, and AWS and cloud services. I hold multiple Adobe certifications, including Adobe Experience Platform - Adobe Qualified, Adobe Experience Manager certified Architect, DevOps Engineer, Developer, and Business Practitioner. I am always eager to learn new technologies and explore new possibilities in the digital space.
- Principal architect on projects for Fortune 500 companies (Retail, Hospitality, Healthcare, B2B) - Lead practice incubator that allowed the expansion of the company portfolio (Customer Data Platform, Composable practice) - Lead new technology and platform adoptions for the technology practice - Thought leadership on matters like Headless, Composable, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Experience Platform. Speaker at conferences and meetups. - Sales engineering, pitches and demos, leading the creation of accelerators to support BUs, marketing, and sales
Growing and managing the company's engineering practice. - Grew the engineering team from 10 to 50 (developers, frontend, backend, and full stack, solutions architects) - Implemented engineering best practices for better quality and agile delivery - Principal architect on projects for Fortune 500 companies implementations (Enterprise CMS, DAM, Analytics) - Sales engineering and sales pitches including resourcing, estimates, and delivery planning - Speaker at conferences and Bay Area Meetups
- Architecting and managing development of the AEM - Magento integration leveraging eCommerce Framework, following best practices and working closely with Adobe engineering - Managing a team of software engineers (on-site and offshore) to architect and deliver high-profile web solutions based on different technologies, mainly AEM - Mentoring engineers on solutions and best practices - Architected several successful AEM/CQ5 solutions including marketing sites and digital asset management for high-profile customers - Gathering functional and technical requirements and providing integration and development efforts, creating proposals - Developed integration between complex technologies. i.e: - use AEM personalization framework to display relevant content and experiences with integrated 3rd party business intelligence like Demandbase or Marketo in an elegant way for marketers and authors - use TYPO3 CMS as an authoring platform to build complex node-based hierarchical and non-hierarchical interactive structures using D3.js - Pre-sale meetings, technology and best practice recommendations, proofs of concept - Speaker at conferences and meetups, one of the founding members of the AEM Bay Area community
- Developed multiple solutions based on Content Management systems (AEM/CQ5, TYPO3 CMS) leveraging and extending existing frameworks - Project scoping and requirements gathering - Integrated 3rd party software APIs to large-scale websites. i.e: - Salesforce integration with TYPO3 CMS - Using TYPO3 CMS as a cloud dashboard, integrating Amazon Web Services API - Successfully delivered challenging projects around translation workflows and localization, including right-to-left languages - Point of contact with clients and their marketing and technical teams - Lead a small team of engineers for our Content Management System branch