As the Director of Software Engineering, I lead the strategic and technical direction of our global engineering team, driving high-impact projects that fuel business growth.Leadership & Strategy: I guide the engineering team in defining and executing a technology roadmap aligned with company objectives. Working closely with senior executives, I help shape and implement our long-term vision, ensuring our technological advancements meet business needs.Team Development & Management: I manage global teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. I’ve successfully built new teams in various locations, ensuring integration with our core objectives. My focus on recruitment, mentoring, and performance evaluation has been crucial in attracting and retaining top talent.Project Oversight: I oversee the design, development, and deployment of software systems, ensuring quality, scalability, and security. I manage projects with external contractors and address compliance requests from customers. I also collaborate with product management to ensure clear communication and goal alignment.Operational Excellence: I drive best practices in software development, including continuous integration, cloud infrastructure management, and cost optimization. These initiatives have led to significant cost savings and improved performance.Innovation & Technical Leadership: I lead the exploration and implementation of cutting-edge technologies that provide a competitive edge, transforming our technology stack and enhancing our ability to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently.Cross-functional Collaboration: I work closely with external consultants, partners, and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution of complex projects, coordinating efforts across domains to achieve successful outcomes.

I've been a key part of the technology strategy of the most successful parking guidance system in the world, this is some of the projects I've done.• Managed the relationship with some technical consultants and external companies contributing to the development of the product• Organize and coordinate engineering team’s weekly show-n-tell presentation where all the company was invited and we can share our progress• Developed and run team changes to obtain clear goals from the product team and give them visibility of our current backlog• Helped to maintain the engineering team roadmaps• Worked side by side with the CTO on special projects successfully releasing pressure in some areas where it was urgent to take action • Developed tools that directly reduced our AWS cost in more ~$150.000 per year, I was also in charge of managing budget under control in other tools too• Involved in interviewing and hiring new team members• Implemented the Continuous integration and continuous delivery for many services migrating from a manual deployment process to an automated one that took minutes or even seconds in some cases vs hours in the past• Migrated our infrastructure to Docker/Kubernetes reducing operational costs and downtimes while improving performance• In my first two months of working, I've produced a new tool that helped users to monitor their sites on real-time that had a great impact on how end-users use the system (its been running smoothly and without problems since then)• Built a tool to improve AI results in real-time processing millions of events per day• Improved the ETL process that puts information in the datawhareouse which is under the transition to became real-time using Apache KafkaSome tools I've used:Ruby, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, Serverless, Javascript

Helping a ton of startups to take their products to market working with high-performance teams and creating high-performance products.Making the web a better place, executing dashing design and gallant technology, one product at a time.

I led a group of 15 engineers and designers to rebuild from scratch a social network to allow brides to find inspiration for their weddings.I was in charge of the architecture, managing the scrum for the entire group and driving the team to build a high-quality new version of a high-traffic website.

Working along with the CTO and the rest of upper management to define company-wide standards for ruby and web development in general- Compiled a set of good practices- Prepared some talks about methodology and Ruby development- Did some R&D projects using Riak

Started up the development of a big application to help universities choose applicants for the after-graduated programs.During these months helped to define the development methodology and best practices along with the architecture.

Building a high-quality pice of software to help big companies and small ISV to distribute, manage and measure their mobile apps over the air.My tasks included leading a team to build among others a Rails application, a Sinatra application, tuning up a Mongo DB database to support a high volume of data and helping the founders to build a product from zero to a sustainable business.

Leaded the team to design and code the basic architecture for a product called mygocanvas then when the bases where established transitioned it to the product team and continued providing support and help with technical desitions

This product helps companies to manage their truck fleet and their drivers.My task was creating a Rails API and a complex reporting front end

Involved in the design and development of the framework on which the CRM and the ERP are based.Worked with Entity Framework, Silverlight, and various other Microsoft related technologies.

System Architecture definition, planning and estimating, core development, tech lead, coaching and team supervision.

Developed the newsletter application and the entire website of the organization