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Head / Director of Engineering · Applied AI Leadership

I lead complex platforms, engineering teams and AI transformation.

As Global Head of Digital Engineering, I lead a 26-person organisation across six countries from Switzerland. I bring the leadership to align managers and teams, the technical depth to own distributed platforms, and experience establishing AI delivery practices.

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Organisation5 direct managers · 26 people · 6 countries
Platform scope3 live brands · 40 transactional markets
System ownershipServices · integrations · queues · workers
Operating remitArchitecture · delivery · reliability

Roles & contracts

Engineering leadership for your next stage.

Permanent engineering leadership

Head or Director of Engineering, VP Engineering and Applied AI leadership roles. I bring experience leading managers, setting platform direction and owning engineering delivery, reliability and investment decisions.

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Contracts and interim mandates

Engineering leadership, platform architecture and delivery, or AI engineering transformation. Discuss a mandate to align teams, own a complex platform or establish a repeatable AI delivery practice.

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Based in Switzerland, open to leadership roles and contract engagements in Switzerland and remote teams across Europe.

What you can hire me to lead

Teams, platforms and transformation. One accountable leader.

01

Lead the engineering organisation

Connect the roadmap to team responsibilities, hiring, coaching and delivery decisions. I bring manager-of-managers experience across backend, frontend, DevOps, QA and delivery.

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02

Own complex distributed platforms

Set architecture direction across frontend, backend, integrations, queues and workers, and stay accountable for reliability. I chose the shared frontend and backend architecture behind three brand launches with the same engineering team.

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03

Lead AI engineering transformation

I bring an operating L3 AI-DLC workflow through to production releases with human approval. I connect use-case discovery, reusable skills, MCP context, specialist development agents and team adoption to establish a repeatable engineering practice.

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04

Connect technology and business decisions

Bring architecture, operational risk and delivery capacity into roadmap, vendor and investment choices. My remit includes contract negotiation, vendor and hiring budgets, incident leadership and FinOps.

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Experience

From hands-on engineering to global leadership.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 2022 to 2024

    Technical Lead Engineer

    Beyond Pricing

    Led four engineers delivering event-driven integrations and production Go services.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Roles & contracts

Let’s discuss the engineering challenge you need me to own.

Education
B.Sc. Software Engineering
Languages
Spanish · Native
English · C1
Location
Switzerland · Permit B
Opportunities
Head / Director of Engineering · VP Engineering / CTO-level mandates · Applied AI leadership · Permanent roles or contracts
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