Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Former CTO/CPO, leading Engineering, Product, Product Design, Data, Devops/Infrastructure/SRE and Security, SOC. Effective CTO reporting directly to Global CEO
• We are building a world-class tech organization which is product-led focused to create the entertainment platform of Africa.
• Bringing Product and Engineering in sync at scale. Scaling product & engineering from 49 to 150+ colleagues in one year.

Sep 2021 – Jan 2022 · 4 mos

• Product & Design

Jan 2021 – Sep 2021 · 8 mos

Nov 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Product Director of Mobility of things (former Careem NOW), the on-demand delivery platform of the region.
• Managing 8 Product Managers and 4 Product business units (Food delivery, Order Anything/Deliveries, Shops/Grocery, and Careem Express - Last Milde Delivery for B2B).
• Bootstrapped and hired the engineering and product teams: engineering (25+ colleagues), product team (8x), Data Science for Careem NOW product/application, defined the product vision for 3 side marketplace and transformed a RH product to a Deliveries product from marketplace to partner product. Careem is now part of Uber company.

May 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Interim Engineer Manager/Head of Engineering for Careem NOW: Leading and coordinating engineering team, helping to build the engineering teams (mobile, backend/frontend, data science, QA, data engineering) for Careem NOW. Scaled the tech team from 4 to 35+ colleagues.
• Leading Product for Careem NOW, on-demand delivery app. Team of 5x PMs.
• Grown 3rd party integrations from 5 to 200+.
• Conceptualized and build the first B2B Deliveries service, growing +30% mom.
• Enhanced Deliveries API's and RideHailing API's to support the scale.
• Working on the next generation of Deliveries and Logistics platform.
• Supported cross teams: Sales, Partnerships and other teams on product and tech.
• Managed Loyalty Programs Integrations and integrated one of the biggest loyalty programs in the region in 2 months.

Jan 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Dubai

• Formerly Carefusion - BD acquired Carefusion in 2015
• Integration Consultant, Medication Management Solutions for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
• Managing and supporting more than 10 distributors from all the EMA regions with frequent travel.
• Lead connectivity and interoperability products for all the projects in the region.
• Managing the technical integration team and interoperability for Infusion and Dispensing business units. Specialized in Pyxis and Pharmogistics products.
• Support for the implementation for all wide range of products in the automatic dispensing units: Pyxis (Anesthesia and Medstation), Pharmogistics, Blispack, Pharmopack, ParX.
• Product Implementations Lead:
• Bahrain (Bahrain Defense Forces)
• Saudi Arabia (KFSH-King Faisal)
• UAE (Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi)
• Qatar (HMC) - More than 8 facilities all connected in one integration engine which was implemented in less than a month with Cerner.

Jul 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Dubai

• As an Integration Engineer, Product Implementation for Middle East & Africa my work & responsabilities:
• Managing the projects and process implementation for all the Interfaces for Carefusion Products,Pyxis and Pharmogistics, specially Enterprise Platform in the Middle East.
• Extensive support,management,maintenance and training for all the distributors within the Middle East region ,e.g. All GCC region.
• Delivering training to nurses, system managers and technicians on the wide range of Carefusion products for the dispensing areas.
• Pharmacy Automation support for ROWA automation systems and integration lead. Leading ROWA integration processes in the region.
• Designed and developed HL7 Specs, tested and validated transactions.Produced Requirement Analysis document for HL7 Interfaces.
• Implemented and supported the launch of CCAD(Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi) hospital, HMC-Al Waqra between others. Working closely with the customer on Interface Engineering and product implementation. Delivering on time the interfaces and the high quality support. Integration with Epic and Cerner EMR platforms.

Jan 2014 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Former CTO and Head of Product Development. Bootstrapped the startup that will disrupt the parking economy.
• Set-up development environment. Google Cloud architecture and configuration.
• Use of PHP(CodeIgniter framework), HTML5, CSS3, MYSQL.
• Integration gateway platform MangoPay for marketplaces.
• Support Outsourced Development Team remotely (6x)
• Developed first mockup: HTML5, CSS3, AJAX.

Jul 2010 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

• Principal Software Engineer of Clinical module Components for healthcare software in Critical areas for Product Engineering Department. Technical leadership in the integration areas through the company products.
• Promoted to Principal Software Engineer in less than the average time.
• Analyze, design and develop end to end technical components. Architecture design through all the process.
• Technical Analysis of the requirements from the product stackholders.
• Project Leadership in Integration Projects (HL7 Messages, SOA, Web). Integration Lead for R&D Integration development.
• High Experience using Microsoft technologies (MFC, C# and .NET , Win32 API, TFS, Enterprise Library, Entity Framework,WCF).
• Extensive use of MVC ASP.NET 4.0 Development in Web Architectures.
• High Expertise in Interfaces through HL7 Messages for external suites.
• Experience using C++, C and F#.
• Development of unit test cases to ensure good software quality.
• Creation of technical documentation.
• Agile methodologies.(Scrum).

Jan 2010 – Dec 2018 · 8 yrs 11 mos

• Launched an eCommerce in Spain and Portugal. Orders delivered in less than 24hours at your home/office. More than 5000 SKU in the eCommerce platform and thousands of happy customers buying & receiving their coffee/tea pods on time with the best service.
• Leading development of the platform, scalability, and product.
• 300% Growth first year of activity.
• Increased retention rate by 30% on the highest of the market segment.
• Search Engine Optimization with more than 65% visibility achieved. +30 keywords rank 1rst.
• Product Owner for Mobile transition responsive and mobile design. (omnichannel approach).
• Managing all the marketing online activities and pricing strategies through monitoring whole competitors.
• Launched different online campaigns on Facebook Ads and Google Adwords/Shopping.
• Technical Leadership to implement the e-commerce platform in two months and maintain it until present.
• Customized Prestashop platform for eCommerce. Developed different modules to improve the performance of the eCommerce. Caching APC and Apache/Nginx Optimizations.
• Creation of Online Marketing Campaigns from the strategy to the graphic design. (SEO, SEM, Affiliates…) increment online traffic by double-digit each month.
• Planning dynamic remarketing campaigns in Google and Criteo.
• Responsible for business development and market research, competitive analysis.
• Worked with direct providers and main brands in the sector(Nestle, Marcilla,Lavazza, Tassimo...).
• Delicap.com - Working on the whole strategy of a new eCommerce across 15 European markets.
• Heading the development and Product Design of the mobile platforms. Managing a team of 4 engineers.
• Currently only advising and supporting.

Nov 2009 – Jul 2010 · 8 mos · Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

• Senior Software Engineer of Clinical module Components for healthcare software in Critical areas for R&D Department. Leading the integration and communication department through our Clinical solutions for ICU and PACU units.

Nov 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

• Software Engineer in Picis R&D for Product Engineering Department.
• Developer and Analyst of Clinical Software for Healthcare specially ICU/PACU and Critical Care.
• Analyze, design and develop end to end technical components.
• Experience using Entity Framework, WCF and Webservices .NET
• High Experience using Microsoft Technologies for UI Design (WPF) / Silverlight and ASP.NET.
• Extensive use of Microsoft Methodologies and Languages (MFC, C++, C# and .NET , Win32 API).
• High Expertise in Interfaces through HL7 Messages for external suites.
• Development of unit test cases to ensure good software quality.
• Creation of technical documentation for Implementations.

Jul 2007 – Nov 2007 · 4 mos · Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

• Test Engineer in RFID R&D Department. Programming and Testing in Perl Language and Analyzing, Extracting data from test coding software for testing Microprocessors.

Jun 2005 – Oct 2005 · 4 mos · Tallinn, Estonia

• Working in different areas of the startup since was starting until Ebay bought the company. Technical Support, Customer Support, Localization the product in Spain and Testing Q&A.
• Testing Software, Technical and Customer Support and Building Spanish Version.
• Responsible of the Technical Customer Support for Spain,Portugal, Brazil, France and Italy.
• Customer Support for English clients.
• Member of the Software Quality testing the skype application.

Jan 2004 – Jun 2007 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

• Working as a Junior Software Engineer at the University about to work in enterprise projects of IT.
• Designing Web Frontend Intranets using Ajax, CSS.
• Expertise in Java projectes through servlets.
• Extensive use of Microsoft Technologies(ASP .NET,C#, SQL Server)
• Developed Web Projects and enterprise intranets with Desktop and Web version based on .NET Technologies.Web Development in ASP.NET using C#.

Feb 2002 – Feb 2004 · 2 yrs · Barcelona

• First sports directory in Catalan language. Closed down because lack of cash. It was not the right moment yet.
• Sold the assets to another company. Exited the project.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2017 · 16 yrs · Spain

• Binred is creating internet projects since 2001. PrestaShop Experts. Offers E-commerce solutions and Online Advertising Services, SEO, SEM and Graphic Design.
• Awarded for Innovation in 2000 for Inici.com
• Web Design and Development. Front-End Development using PHP (Laravel), CSS, HTML, JSON, XML of corporate websites.
• IT Projects for local companies. (200+ customers).
• PrestaShop eCommerce and Laravel PHP framework expertise.
• Defining the SEO plans for our customers.
• Planning dynamic remarketing campaigns in Google and Criteo.
• Managing PPC campaigns in Google Adwords, Google Display Network and Facebook.
• Last Projects Developed:
• Club Piolet (National TV in Andorra) www.clubpiolet.com - PSD2HTML, PHP, HTML5 & Responsive. Mobile compatibility. Built Video automation and compressing video online.
• Pack & Fun (Booking Engine) - Integration with third parties booking systems. Symfony 2.0 , PHP/MySQL.
• Startfred.com - SEO/SEM Strategy. Web Design from prototype to corporate site.
• ComprarCapsulas.com (eCommerce Platform) - PHP/MySQL. Lead the implementation of the eCommerce from stealth to an established company.
• Umerat.com - Boostrapped the outsourced engineering team (x4). Designed architecture, tech stack and microservices architecture. Built iOS and Android marketplace apps. Overseen product design circle.
• Accomplishments
• Grew the concurrent customer base from 0 to 500.
• Sold 2 internal tech projects.
• Exited the day to day basis for local partnerships.
• Bootstrapped the company alone from scratch at 17 years old.