Curriculum Vitae
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Here's my journey as a Senior Software Engineer and Engineering Lead. I've tackled complex technical challenges, mentored people, and built supportive, and healthy teams that deliver.
What drives me is the mix of problem-solving and collaboration, writing reliable code while creating an environment where people can do their best work. This resume brings together the skills, projects, and experiences that have shaped my career so far.
Last updated: September 2025 • PDF format • 3 pages
Leadership Style
I lead with people-first clarity and technical depth. Over the years, I've learned that high performance comes from psychological safety, ownership, and well-understood systems. My style blends inclusive, servant leadership with pragmatic engineering: set context, co-create standards, remove friction, and let great people do their best work.
What this looks like in practice
Intentional remote leadership
- Clear goals, written context, and transparent decisions so no one is blocked by time zones.
- Rituals that reinforce alignment: roadmap reviews, architecture forums, and predictable delivery cadences.
Coaching and growth
- 1:1s as a safe space for development: career paths, feedback, and early signals of burnout or friction.
- Fair distribution of high-impact work and sponsorship that makes talent visible.
Pragmatic technical leadership
- Architectures that favor reliability, observability, and maintainability over accidental complexity.
- Guardrails and standards (ADRs, code review norms, incident/postmortem quality) that balance speed and quality.
Outcome-driven delivery
- Tight partnership with Product and Design to solve real user problems.
- Focus on lead time, reliability, and execution clarity, not vanity metrics.
Inclusive by design
- Diversity as a transversal practice: how we collaborate, give credit, assign projects, and honor different realities.
- Accessible communication: agendas in advance, notes/recordings, clear language, and organized documentation.
Principles I live by
- Clarity over control: Set context and constraints; empower teams to decide.
- Fewer, better systems: Reduce complexity to make reliability repeatable.
- Feedback as a habit: Make it frequent, specific, and growth-oriented.
- Consistency > heroics: Reliable processes beat last-minute pushes.
- Inclusion is operational: Design rituals and communication that welcome, hear, and reflect every voice in decisions.
- Psychological safety: Enable candid debate, asking for help, and thoughtful risk-taking without fear of blame.
Favorite quote
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." — Peter Drucker
Great strategies endure only when everyday behaviors make them real.
Experience
- Over 15 years in software engineering
- Led and scaled remote teams
- Specialized in Elixir, Phoenix, and distributed systems
- Built and scaled HR and EdTech platforms from scratch
- Eng. leadership at Remote, Factorial HR & Lingokids
Education & Community
- Computer Science Engineering — Oviedo University
- AI Expert Program — U.N.E.D.
- Mentor at MentorCruise & Coding Coach
- Co-founder of FabadaConf & Elixir Asturias
- Advocate for DEI & mental health in tech