Exoticca is a tech travel company leading the multi-day tour package space.As a CTO at Exoticca I built the technology team with more than 60 members and structured them in a domain-based squad, in addition, I helped the whole company adopt methodologies like Scrum and OKRs.I'm directly reporting to the CEO and also part of the Board.A list of other responsibilities and duties that I am currently doing or have been doing:- Manage the whole technology budget.- Build the first and current cloud architecture based on AWS and managed by IaC.- Define a product-tech roadmap aligned with the company's direction.- Structure and phase long-term projects into 2-week Sprints.- Define the strategy to migrate the whole frontend and backend.- Define a seamless architecture for all the teams helping them to understand different contexts.- Implement and define a career growth plan with different job levels and roles.- Build the Data team and data-driven strategy for the company.- Hiring and retention strategies, implementing a training budget, sponsoring conferences, and in-house training knowledge. - Define the development cycle policies, and speed up the delivery cycle in production from one deployment per week to 20 deployments per day.- Implement robust monitoring and observability culture to react fast once we detect some anomaly.

Social & Beyond is a marketing application that transforms a company's free POS Wi-Fi into a social media marketing tool.I joined the company as a CTO reporting directly to the CEO. I focused on the following milestones:- Grow the development team of 2 to 10 engineers.- Implement OKRs and agile culture in all departments.- CI/CD for all applications, development, and staging environments, speeding up the delivery and reducing bugs.- Train technology members with all the stack.- Simplify the product by challenging and defining business KPIs.

Trovit is a vertical search engine for classifieds (real estate, jobs, cars and products). In 2014 was acquired by NEXT Co. and now comes under the LIFULL Connect umbrella.I joined Trovit as a Senior PHP Developer, and after a year, I became the Tech Lead at Web team.The team I lead consists of 10 members, 5 backends, 2 frontends and 3 QAs, plus the Product Owner.My primary responsibilities were:- Led the definition of the tech objectives for each quarter and monitoring these during each sprint.- Hiring process and onboarding the new team members not just for Web but for other departments.- One-on-ones with each member of the team to help on their career path.- Design hand in hand the roadmap with the product owner.- Define each quarter's goals with the OKRs.

I worked in the Web team, improving all the verticals' performance and stability. Moreover, we built a New Projects Team to deal with new opportunities requiring quick developments, which will be implemented at Web afterward.

Development of an administration panel for the Customer Service/Support and Finance departments.Analysis of project functionals and developing projects as a project leader.Working with SCRUM methodology and implementation of TDD.Technologies:PHP 5.3, Zend Framework, Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Memcached, Magento, Twitter Bootstrap, TDD, Git

Backend development of new sections on the company's website. Bugfixing and tool enhancements.Working with SCRUM methodology and implementation of TDD.Technologies:PHP 5.3, MySQL, Memcached, CodeIgniter, Symfony 1.4, Git, SVN, jQuery, css

Bugfixing and tool enhancements.Goals:- Redefinition of seat assignment process- New front end architecture- Import all the flight destinations from acquired company Clickair.Technologies:PHP 5, Zend Framework, Skylights, Template Toolkit (based on Perl), MySQL, REST/SOAP Webservices, jQuery, css, SVN

Developing an interactive online course for the company software named TCQ2000 based on Moodle.This course implements Flash and store the results to the database.Technologies:PHP, MySQL, Flash, ActionScript

Landing pages developmentBugfixingTechnologies:PHP, ASP, Javascript, Flash, ActionScript

Landing pages developmentBugfixingInteractive CD's based on Flash and DirectorTechnologies:PHP, ASP, Javascript, Director, Flash, ActionScript

Landing pages developmentInteractive CD's based on Flash and DirectorTechnologies:Flash, Photoshop, Director