I'm Alex, and I'm absolutely passionate about my family, my friends, scuba diving, hiking in the mountains and technology in the form of programming! I've been doing this for more than 25 years and I'm still learning new things every day! I'm an inveterate entrepreneur and I'm excited to keep looking for my unicorn! I've had the incredible opportunity to work in a number of different fields, including financial services, robotics, and software for mobile devices. Since 2017, I've been thrilled to be working in the cutting-edge field of blockchain technology, which is now known as Web3. I'm thrilled to be currently #CTO hands-on at Vottun! In addition to taking care of the company's technological strategy, I've had the amazing opportunity to lead the development of the APIs platform (https://web3.vottun.com). I've also had the chance to develop almost the entire core of it!
Experience: 5 years
Yearly salary: $120,000
Hourly rate: $70
Nationality: 🇪🇸 Spain
Residency: 🇪🇸 Spain
Experience
CTO
VOTTUN 2021 - 2024
CTO at Vottun (startup), reporting directly to the CEO, my functions are to define the company's technological strategy for its products and to participate in both the definition and development of the products, directly developing their core. I manage a team of 7 developers including UX/UI and Product Owner. I have developed the core of Vottun World (https://web3.vottun.io) which consists of APIs that allow developing applications directly against EVM blockchain networks without knowledge about them, even allowing working with smart contracts created by other developers. I have also designed and developed the backend of the game Shuriken (https://shurikendojo.xyz/) a bot/miniapp for telegram consisting of a Tap2Earn.
CTO & COFOUNDER
SEVENROW TICKETING 2019 - 2020
Seven Row is a B2B2C product that wants to avoid massive fraud existing on ticketing market, allowing ticket sales companies and promoters to create named, 100% digital, secure, traceable tickets through blockchain technology. We allow users to resell their tickets in an official and controlled way, through the same website they bought the ticket or transfer it to someone else, creating a new source of income for the promoters and artists, besides from a new communication channel with the final user. With that we also foster the advance sales of tickets, as the users know they can resell it if they finally can't go to an event. As CTO I have participated in the Solution Technical definition leading it. The project, based in Blockchain, is in development phase (Architecture, Backend and Mobile Apps) and our intention is to have it in production early in 2021. We abandoned the project due to pandemic restrictions to massive events.
CEO, CTO AND COFOUNDER
HIPPO TECHNOLOGIES 2016 - 2019
With a Part of the ameu8 team, we founded the company. Our goal was create new products but first we needed fundings. In order to earn money, we begin in a classic IT consultancy company, focused on mobile solutions for corporations. As CEO I defined the business strategy of the company. AS CTO I participated in Mobile, IoT and Blockchain projects. We began three products: ShaRing (NFC Ring to store access credentials as well as tickets), another product dedicated to tourism, and Seven Row, still in developing phase, a product dedicated to fight against fraud on live events ticketing. We closed the company due to discrepancies between partners and I'm still working in Seven Row project with another partners.
HEAD OF MOBILITY PRACTICE (DIRECTOR)
EVERIS MOBILE (AMEU8) 2012 - 2016
Since April 2012, I'm the head for the mobility practice in everis mobile, part of everis Spain. This company main activity is the corporate mobility, creating mobile solutions around Europe for different international companies. During this time, I have been focused in: Office management. Digital Strategic Roadmap definition. International E2E project delivery, being always a Technology lead and supervising all the projects from all point of views. Commercial activity, including new markets in UK and Germany. Team managing (currently more than 50 people in different locations). Innovation. Business development. I have been involved in Sales Force Apps for iOS (i.e. Multinational Agriculture Company) distributed in Europe and RSA. Field Force Apps for iOS (i.e. Car Auction company in UK). Financial Apps for iOS, Android and HTML5 (i.e. Spanish Bank) and other economic sectors Apps.
MOBILITY MANAGER
ACCENTURE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS 2011 - 2012
Mobile Manager in charge of the Mobile Barcelona team reporting directly to the Partner in Madrid. Integrated in the Accenture Global Innovation group, mainly working on mobile initiatives participating in international internal forums. Integrated in the Accenture Technology Spanish team. During that stage, I was focused on internal mobile business development, commercial activities including national workshops and the creation of the mobile team. It is possible to read recommendations at linkedin.
MOBILE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
ACCENTURE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS 2008 - 2012
I joined Accenture Technology Solutions to achieve new goals as Senior Architect in JEE and Mobility projects. I have been engaged in several international projects for two big insurance companies. For the first one, I was working in two different years: 2008 and 2010. I was Senior Architect leading complex technology projects related to JEE architecture, security and communications. At the second company, in London (UK) I was working as Senior Software Architect engaged on Web Architecture as well as the Middleware one. For the Middleware, I was collaborating in the design of the communications channels (Mainframe, UNIX and Wintel) based on SOA Patterns and using CTG, MQ and http Web Services based on Web Methods. Unfortunately, the mobility projects in that stage were not strategic for the company so I was practicing and studying the new technologies from a private perspective.
MOBILITY TECHNICAL PROJECT LEADER
TEMPOS 21 2006 - 2008
I work as experienced mobile developer in high technology projects and as project leader I was leading several projects at a time. As Project Leader I have been leading several projects for financial, industry and government companies. As Technical Architect and developer I have worked with the following technologies: JEE and JME. First iOS and Android experiences. Spring, Hibernate and Struts. Apache Tomcat. SOA Architectures with Web Services.
MOBILE, .NET AND JEE DEVELOPER
FREELANCE 2004 - 2006
At this stage I was working as freelance for several projects. The most important projects I was involved were for Food Industry and Entertainment. I was developing Geolocation mobile Apps, mobile architecture platform and web applications using J2EE.
JEE ARCHITECT
GFT IBERIA 2000 - 2004
Working as JEE Architect and mobile web developer in international projects (Financial and telecom customers) living during several months in Düsseldorf, Milano and London.
IT ANALYST AND DEVELOPER
OTHER COMPANIES 1992 - 2000
I began my professional career as developer in 1993 working for different companies in Barcelona. The one I am proud is Willet Co Uk in Spain. Willet was a company focused on industrial codification. I was programming in assembler, C++ (Symbol mobile device) and Siemens STEP7 for PLCs controlling the product codification in production lines from the single packaging until the pallet was stored in the intelligent warehouse.
Skills
aws
docker
java
kubernetes
solidity
sql
golang