Nov 2021 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

• Principal engineer reporting to CTO - focused on making Miro the most scalable and reliable collaboration platform for its hyper-growth user base.
• Leading cross-cutting engineering initiatives to build first-class infrastructure and microservice platform services and patterns
• Hands-on design work for core product architecture
• Growing the organization through working with, and supporting senior/staff engineers.
• We're hiring: https://miro.com/careers/

May 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Barcelona Area, Spain

• Working with engineering teams in the flight search "Engines" Tribe to build scalable, global architectures for serving over 100M+ distinct users every month on a petabyte scale search stack. Hands-on in development for back-end components during a percentage of time. Also with a dedicated percentage for architecture oversight and support for squads in the tribe working in flight content and processing.

May 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr · Sant Cugat Del Valles, Catalonia, Spain

• Architect for Foundations Team, responsible for supporting the development organization's transition to new architectural patterns and design principles. We're building the next generation of diagnostics laboratory management software using Reactive microservices, hexagonal architecture grounded in Domain-Driven Design.

Oct 2011 – Dec 2017 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Barcelona Area, Spain

• Software architect responsible for:
• Road map for success
• Product and business owner goals fused into a compelling best of breed technology vision.
• Supporting development teams
• Working hands-on with teams, assisting or leading design, code reviews, etc. Reviewing and proposing new technologies to decrease development time.
• Strengthening the organization
• Mentoring and support of leaders, cross-area collaboration, interviews and hiring
• Growing the software engineering craft
• Coaching in development practices, design principles.
• Recent projects / technologies:
• Pipeline for deployment of Data Science recommendation models:
• Model deployment pipeline leveraging AWS services (Lambda, Firehose, S3, Dynamo) and Spark
• Pre-prod validation allowing for validation of model accuracy before deployment
• Push button roll-out for Data Science decreased delay by 30x
• Paid search bidding optimization based on predictive models:
• Accurately predict gross margins for key words based on predicting customer's future value
• Bidding strategy uses key words and total value to bid accurately
• Multi-million dollar impact in channel spend and return
• Based on Hadoop stack (Storm, Kafka, HBase, Hive)

Apr 2007 – Oct 2011 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Barcelona Area, Spain

• Software development supervisor for development team located in Barcelona, Spain. The team works on software devevlopment projects for the BPO projects based out of Spain and EMEA.
• The primary client was General Motors Europe, one of the largest Human Resources BPO contracts for ACS. The BPO system processed voice, print and electronic HR requests in a multi-system heterogenous workflow, including EAI/ERP integration with SAP and PeopleSoft, business process/SLA monitoring, distributed mailroom/document processing services and archiving.
• The development team worked on high visibility projects to reduce operating costs through automation of data entry, business process integration with ERP systems and rules based monitoring and diagnosis to reduce losses from processing SLA non-compliance.
• Development platform included:
• SQL server 2000/2008
• Microsoft .NET. C#/VB
• webMethods Integration Server / Service Bus (Software AG)
• Java

Sep 2006 – Apr 2007 · 7 mos

• Software development engineer in the Windows Live division of Microsoft. I worked on test software for the Internet-based suite of web sites and applications that make up the new internet suite of Microsoft (Live/Hot Mail, etc.) and developed test system infrastructure for them.
• Developed Smart-client C# based test platform for performing distributed testing of the internet site performance, amongst other smaller projects.

Jun 2004 – Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• I worked for Microsoft in Redmond in the Networking group on the Windows Vista Network Diagnostics system, a new and much used feature of Windows Vista that helps the user resolve their problems automatically.
• I did extensive work around the testing and design guidance with the Wireless networking diagnostics system in Windows Vista.
• I worked on some very novel systems using hardware virtualization to automated complicated wireless networking end-to-end test. This technology was generalized and formed the framework for security testing and wireless stack compliance.

Jan 2002 – May 2004 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Freelance .NET software developer working on projects for small/medium sized Spanish companies.
• The projects I worked on include;
• Distributed translation tool for global translation company
• Port of textile plant management software from VB6 to VB.NET

Sep 1996 – Aug 2000 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Test developer for the Microsoft Cluster Server, a High-Availability hardware/software solution. The cluster service shipped as part of Windows NT 4.0 "Datacenter" and was one of the important features that made Windows Server more reliable as a system.
• I developed end-to-end tests involving managing real-life resources, including DFS trees and LDM disk volumes, which are the basis for day-to-day datacenter management operations.
• During these very formative years, I was part of 2 ship cycles- after the NT 4.0 delivery, I worked on the Windows 2000 project and saw the Cluster Service form part of Windows 2000 Advanced server (now Enterprise Server).