Head / Director of Engineering · Applied AI Leadership

I lead engineering organisations and turn applied AI into working systems.

I’m Luis Angel Parada, Global Head of Digital Engineering, based in Switzerland. I lead a 26-person organisation across six countries and chose the shared platform architecture behind three brand launches with the same engineering team. My work connects engineering leadership, distributed systems and AI engineering transformation.

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Leadership scope

Manager of managers.
Operator of systems.

I connect organisation design, platform architecture and delivery economics, then stay accountable when the system is under pressure.

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5direct managers

Leading through Backend, Frontend, DevOps, QA and Delivery management.

26people in the organisation

A distributed engineering organisation designed for clear ownership and dependable delivery.

6countries

Global collaboration across cultures, time zones and specialist partners.

End-to-endoperating scope

Roadmap, hiring, vendor and budget decisions, SRE, incidents, FinOps and architecture.

01 / Selected work

Systems that make
ambition operational.

Explore the experience and technical thinking I bring to your organisation: AI engineering transformation, ownership of a three-brand distributed platform, and an independent AI product-discovery reference architecture.

AI Engineering Transformation

I bring operating L3 AI-DLC experience through to production releases with human approval, connecting team practices, reusable skills, MCP context and specialist agents.

AI-DLC · specialist agents · production releases with human approvalExplore the transformation I can lead

Global Commerce Platform

Three brands launched with the same engineering team. My architecture decision brought shared frontend and backend capabilities together with distributed integrations and clear brand boundaries.

3 live brands · distributed systems · 40 transactional marketsExplore the platform

AI Product Discovery Architecture

An independent, non-deployed reference architecture for grounded product discovery and governed AI assistance.

Bedrock · Claude · LangGraph · FastAPI · RAGASExplore the approach

02 / Career

A decade building software, platforms and teams.

From hands-on product engineering to global digital leadership.

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2026 to present
Global Head of Digital Engineering
Global luxury brand
Five direct managers and a 26-person organisation across six countries, with accountability for the technology roadmap, hiring, vendors, budgets, reliability and applied AI.
2024 to 2026
Delivery Lead, Digital Platforms
Global luxury brand
Led zero-to-production platform delivery, SDLC and release governance for a shared multibrand commerce architecture.
2022 to 2024
Technical Lead Engineer
Beyond Pricing
Led four engineers delivering event-driven integrations and production Go services.
2022 to 2024
Cloud Platform Engineer & MongoDB PS Consultant
Cogniflare
Concurrent professional-services engagement alongside Beyond Pricing, delivering enterprise architecture assessments, MongoDB training and cloud platform work through April 2024.
2016 to 2021
Engineering foundations
Worldline · Techonrails · A3SEC · NAGRA · CEPSA
Built the hands-on foundation across AWS migration, distributed systems, cybersecurity, product development and full-stack delivery.

03 / Practice

Leadership that stays close to the system.

I lead through clear operating models, technical depth and evidence to connect people, architecture and outcomes.

Engineering leadership

Build and scale high-performing engineering teams with ownership, clarity and long-term impact.

AI & delivery

Turn emerging technology into working systems through disciplined delivery, experimentation and real-world use.

Platform architecture

Own complex distributed platforms across frontend and backend boundaries, queues, workers, data projections and operational recovery.

04 / About

Technology is the medium. Better systems are the work.

I am an engineering leader and hands-on builder based in Switzerland. My work connects product ambition, platform architecture, delivery discipline and applied AI so teams can move faster without losing control.

Current role: Global Head of Digital Engineering
Education: B.Sc. Software Engineering
Languages: Spanish · Native
English · C1
Location: Switzerland · Permit B

About the work. Case studies explain my responsibilities and decisions. Independent reference architectures are labelled separately; employer and client details stay private.

Technical spectrum

Leadership

Engineering organisations · roadmaps · vendors · budgets · incident leadership

Applied AI

RAG · agents · Bedrock · LangChain · LangGraph · AI-DLC · evaluation · guardrails

Platforms

AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · Cloudflare · Azure Service Bus · RQ · observability

Engineering

Python · Go · TypeScript · distributed systems · APIs · data

05 / Contact

Need a leader for complex platforms and AI transformation?

Let’s discuss a permanent leadership role or a contract to lead platform strategy, engineering delivery or AI transformation. Based in Switzerland, open to leadership roles and contract engagements in Switzerland and remote teams across Europe.

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