Katherine Mora Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, Gb

I help entrepreneurs, startups, and SMBs navigate complex technology landscapes, make informed decisions, and achieve their business objectives.I offer technology advisory and fractional CTO services, as well as bespoke software development solutions. Leading a dedicated development team, I work closely with startups and established businesses across various industries. My goal is to ensure technical success while helping businesses make a meaningful impact and amplify their influence in the world. I navigate the intricacies of VCs, angel investors, grants, and accelerators, leveraging my extensive experience to provide strategic guidance and practical implementation for founders and CEOs.Services:- Personalised Technology Advisory & CTO as a Service: Translate business objectives into actionable technology plans while ensuring efficient resource utilisation. - Software & App Development: customised digital solutions for mobile apps (iOS and Android) and scalable software platforms to meet your unique business requirements.- Data & AI Strategy: we help you build an effective and actionable data & AI strategy and roadmap, leveraging data for informed decisions. Our guidance covers efficient data modelling, collection, and platform building. We prepare you for AI adoption, providing a plan to select suitable AI models based on your company's stage and business goals.- Cloud Strategy and Application Development: we help you harness the power of cloud technologies, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, for accelerated development, cost-effectiveness, and increased agility in deploying cutting-edge solutions.- Coaching & Learning Sessions: knowledge-driven training sessions tailored to your specific needs. - Speaking Engagements: from a rich background in corporate environments, startups and entrepreneurship. I offer insights, cutting-edge trends, and strategic guidance to navigate the ever-evolving tech industry. - Women in Tech Empowerment and Mentoring

At GoodMine, our team is pioneering the integration of technology within the circular economy, transforming the end-of-life of the products with our platform that connects unwanted consumer goods to the circular ecosystem to help with the transition to circular for consumer products. We drive innovation by developing a robust data model encapsulating circularity principles, ensuring our platform leads the transition towards sustainability. My role involves aligning our development efforts with strategic goals and overcoming the multifaceted challenges inherent in the circular space.Responsibilities:- Lead and prioritise the development team's work, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic goals.- Tackle the complex and ambiguous challenges of the circular economy, contributing to the creation of a comprehensive data model that encapsulates the principles of circularity.- Collaborate with the CEO to translate the company's vision into technical solutions, helping to articulate and materialise the vision into a functional and effective platform.- Partner with the product lead and design team to refine the product, clarify priorities, and ensure effective delivery.- Engage with stakeholders, investors, and customers through meetings and demos, articulating technical aspects and supporting the company’s vision to secure funding.- Manage financial constraints to deliver impactful results within tight deadlines.- Extract and translate requirements from various stakeholders into technical solutions, ensuring clear communication and understanding across all parties.

San Francisco, California, Us

As one of the London Chapter Leads at Latinas in Tech (LiT), a non-profit organisation dedicated to connecting, supporting, and empowering Latina women in technology, I play a key role in fostering a vibrant community in London. Latinas in Tech, with over 25,000 members from more than 23 countries, focuses on professional development, recruiting, and mentorship to support Latina women working in the tech industry. This volunteer position allows me to create impactful opportunities and build strong networks for Latinas entering or advancing in the tech space.Responsibilities:- Organise events for the Latinas in Tech community in London, promoting professional growth and networking.- Coordinate and collaborate with London-based companies to arrange events and mentorship programs, enhancing career opportunities for Latina women.- Develop initiatives to create more opportunities for Latinas transitioning into the tech space from other industries.

First 100 Founding Member.

London, England, Gb

I was part of the Data Lake and Data Platform team, where I contributed to building and optimizing a robust data platform designed to handle high volumes of data. This platform supported various departments in gaining insights and making data-driven decisions. My role involved working with big data technologies and cloud services to ensure efficient data processing and system configuration, addressing both performance and cost-efficiency challenges.Responsibilities:- Developed and maintained a data platform for processing large datasets, enabling other departments to derive actionable insights and make informed decisions.- Addressed challenges related to high data volumes, diverse data sources, and the need for fast data access, optimising system configuration for improved speed and efficiency.- Implemented strategies to ensure the platform was economically viable in terms of processing and querying costs.- Utilised big data technologies and cloud services, including AWS Athena, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, AWS Wrangler, PySpark, to enhance data processing capabilities.

Dublin 2, Ie

Team Lead & Data Engineer for a large communications company• Developed a solution that automated job descriptions generation using BERT. • Responsibilities included: team coordination across different countries, stakeholder management, content acquisition, data cleansing and entity extraction. • Technologies: Elasticsearch, BERT (NER & Classification), Python (scikit-learn, flask), AWS, Text Analytics, Prodigy, ETL• Co-ordinated multiple teams across multiple geographies • Development team oversight, management and guidance• Key stakeholder managementData & Search Engineer for a leading energy company • Worked as a data and search engineer in the development of an enterprise search application using cloud technologies to provide employees with comprehensive solution to ease their daily jobs. • Technologies: Elasticsearch, Google Cloud Platform (containers, compute engine, Dataflow/Apache Beam, App engine, AutoML, JWT/OAuth, Linux.

Dublin 2, Ie

Team Lead & Associate Architect for a global food company• Designed, lead and implemented an end to end solution to provide enterprise search. • Responsibilities included: team coordination, stakeholder management, data acquisition, storage, merging, cleansing and enrichment, security configuration.• Technologies: Elasticsearch, Java, MS SQL , Nodejs, ADFS, load balancers, HA, SSL.• Coordinating development resources, and maintaining development timelines• Ensuring project development consistency• Translation of business requirements into development tasks• Key stakeholder management

Herndon, Va, Us

Search and Match Application for a Global Recruiting CompanyTechnologies: Solr, Java, Hadoop, AWS and Microsoft Azure• Implemented and delivered a search and match solution to place best candidates into open job positions. • Implemented Hadoop Map/Reduce algorithms for processing big data.• Led the support team to implement CI/CDSearch Engineer for a large pharmaceutical companyWorked on a search engine scoring application to statistically evaluate the quality of the search results based on real user interactions from Google Analytics.Technologies: Solr, R, Google Analytics.

Herndon, Va, Us

Research, design and development of a sports tool.Responsibilities included development of back end modules, advanced SQL queries, object and database modelling.Technologies: C#, JavaScript, MSSQL

Long Beach, California, Us

Design and development of software components in Java for audio hardware interaction of the Mark-3 System: from hardware controlled to software controlledTechnologies: Java