Pablo A.

Software Engineering Management | Digital ID @ UNICC | Executive MBA @ IE Business School | AI & Digital Transformation

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

About

I’m an engineering leader with over 10 years of experience delivering secure, mission-critical digital platforms and managing high-performing software teams. I combine hands-on technical depth with mature people leadership, developed through leading engineers and engineering managers across multiple domains. I lead a multi-team engineering organization spanning frontend, mobile, backend, and DevOps. I’ve acted as technical lead for major United Nations platforms, including the UN Self-Sovereign Identity system adopted by 6+ agencies, the Digital Certificate of Entitlements serving 50,000+ UN retirees, and a mobile and CRM solution supporting a target population of 5.5M refugees. Earlier in my career, I worked as a full-stack engineer across frontend, hybrid mobile, and backend, building reusable components still in production. I focus on building empowered teams that work efficiently and deliver meaningful outcomes for end users. I care about clear direction, ownership, and enabling people to move quickly, keeping a practical, results-oriented approach that strengthens both delivery and technical quality.

Experience

  • UNICC (9 yrs 1 mo)
    • Digital ID Team Lead - Solutions Architect
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

      • Lead a multi-team engineering group spanning frontend, mobile, backend, DevOps, and digital identity specialists. • Support and mentor engineering managers while guiding team structure, growth, and performance processes. • Drive the evolution of UNICC’s digital identity capabilities, including self-sovereign identity, biometrics, and digital identity verification solutions. • Oversee the scaling and integration of the UN Self-Sovereign Identity platform used by 6+ UN agencies. • Modernize engineering workflows through AI- and LLM-assisted development practices, improving consistency across 50+ developers. • Ensure alignment across product, architecture, and delivery teams to support secure, reliable, mission-critical platforms.

    • Solutions Architect & Engineering Manager
      Jan 2021 - Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      • Led a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering digital solutions for several UN agencies across identity, public services, and operational platforms. • Delivered a mobile and CRM solution designed to improve access to essential services for a potential user base of over 6 million refugees. • Led the technical delivery of the UN Pension Fund’s Digital Certificate of Entitlements (DCE), scaling it from pilot to a system serving 50,000+ beneficiaries annually and earning a United Nations Secretary-General Award for Innovation and Sustainability.

    • Solutions Architect Consultant
      Oct 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Technical lead delivering new software-based solutions for UNHCR, WFP. Helped transform a PoC into multi-agency UN-wide internal tool. Delivered new solutions for multiple clients: WTO, WHO, UNITAR, OCHA.

  • DEVELAPPS (1 yr 4 mos)
    • Back-End and Front-End Developer
      Oct 2016 - Jul 2017 · 10 mos

      - Software developer for third party clients. First FE developer, helped establish the practice for the company.

    • Front-end Developer
      Apr 2016 - Oct 2016 · 7 mos

  • Full-stack developer at WooU.co
    Jan 2016 - Apr 2016 · 4 mos

    Business analysis, customer development; delivered software solutions to validate startups on pre-seed stage.

  • Co Founder and CTO at BattGO
    Jul 2015 - Dec 2015 · 6 mos

    Co-founder and CTO of BattGO startup project. Market analysis, business model definition, customer development, mobile app conception and deployment (multiplatform, Cordova based, AngularJS, PHP), Agile-Scrum.

  • Internship at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Center for Development Cooperat
    Oct 2011 - Sep 2012 · 1 yr

    - Coordination of the University Volunteering Program for Students - Support on the technical coordination of the Haiti Students Grant Program (Becas Haití) for the Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas, CRUE - Editor of the book "Casos prácticos de proyectos de infraestructuras en cooperación al desarrollo", 2011, ISBN 9788483636305