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Chief Technology Officer

Visionary Technology Leader with Expertise in High-Traffic Platforms, Team Scaling, and Strategic Business Growth. Proven track record in bootstrapping companies from inception to multi-million dollar revenue, implementing high-performance, web2 and web3-based solutions. Skilled in mentoring teams, defining operational models, and driving strategic initiatives that result in significant industry partnerships and revenue growth. Expertise in managing high-traffic platforms, engaging large user bases, and implementing robust scalability and security measures. Adept at bridging business strategy with technology, ensuring seamless alignment and execution across departments.


Experience: 7 years

Yearly salary: $150,000

Hourly rate: $100

Nationality: 🇪🇸 Spain

Residency: 🇪🇸 Spain


Experience

Chief Product and Technology Officer (Co-Founder)
IoBuilders
2018 - 2024
Company Bootstrap from 0 to 100 employees, starting from 0 to 13M of revenue in 2023. Vision, mission and culture definition: less than 10% of annual turnover. Team mentoring, generating solid delegation paths, company growth, and autonomous leaders and departments. Nowadays CTO was the first junior developer. Tech stack, architecture and operational model definition. Client sales, pre-sales and servicing design, defining key markets. DLT based tokenized E-money platform implementation, with all regulatory licenses. Digital Asset strategic vision and execution, building key components that enabled major banks engagement, JVs and company revenue growth. Real Estate Exchange platform implementation, generating a new JV with SIX Digital Fund Investment Exchange architecture and Strategy (World Biggest Player). Crypto Broker SAAS product development, generating a new JV with a spanish private bank. Blockchain community advocate and relationships. Ethereum standards definition: EEA. EIP2020, EIP1400. Open Source project committer: Eventeum, Besu, Quorum. NFT fan engagement business lines inception and execution, generating more than 10M in revenue.
Chief Technology Officer
Self Employed
2015 - 2018
Wealth Management product inception, design and implementation (Wealth Solutions). Customer On Boarding (> 4000 Million Euros under management). Bank integrations and fund Investment automation, reducing manual work 80%. Portfolio management and reporting, increasing customer satisfaction NPS. New engineering team buildup of 6 engineers.
Chief Technology Officer
Entradas.com
2013 - 2015
New engineering team bootstrap with more than 25 engineers, mentoring existing and new ones, creating a solid cohesive team, to be able to accomplish all the challenges. Legacy system engineers schooling, advisory and performant new technology adoption. New Soccer Whitelabel Platform. Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid with close to 550k revenue first year. New payment modules, fraud engine and fee management system. Antifraud system implementation reducing 99% credit card fraud, increasing overall revenue in 20%. 2014 FIBA World Basketball Championship ticketing platform design and implementation, running a successful and performant tournament. New Hosting and cloud infrastructure redefinition, with 700k€ of cost reduction. Oracle Database portfolio upgrade and re-architecture, with 1M€ license cost reduction. Agile methodologies adoption, generating a new way of collaboration. Architecture redefinition. monolith refactor and evolution, with 400% boost of capacity.
Head of Engineering
LastMinute
2006 - 2013
Business and technical management of the engineering department (120 people). Architecture redefinition. Monolith refactor, enabling higher traffic, with direct impact on daily searches and bookings. From 500 to 1500 bookings in 2 weeks. New tech stack, coding rules, tech standardization, generating pillar for growth. Continuous Business innovation. generating new business lines like, open flight search, dynamic packages or low cost flight providers. Metasearch servicing platform inception, and implementation, with more than 1000 searches per second. Cloud computing adoption: AWS + Red Hat Virtualization, with a global hosting infrastructure change generating, an elastic and cost effective infrastructry. Monitoring, Observability platform: Automating metrics. telemetry, debugging, and alerts, creating SLA and support team. Agile methodology adoption (2006), extending usage across the organization. Team scaling from 20 to 120 engineers, creating a structure growth plan, leadership team, with solid autonomous teams, and governance. Business increase from 100M to 500M of revenue in 4 years.
Senior Java Product Engineer
Ventura24.es
2005 - 2006
Java Product Engineer
British Telecom
2003 - 2006
Heldpesk
Amadeus
2003 - 2005

Skills

architecture
blockchain
devops
java
solidity
english
spanish