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Engineering & applied AI leadership

Engineering leader who stays close to the system.

Global Head of Digital Engineering with a decade spanning product engineering, cloud platforms, global commerce and governed AI delivery.

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Organisation5 direct managers · 26 people · 6 countries
Platform scale40 markets · up to 1B requests in a peak month
Delivery273 deployments per week · 6-minute average deployment
EconomicsApproximately $800k annual Opex removed

Leadership remit

Accountable from roadmap to reliability.

01

Organisation

Manager-of-managers leadership, hiring, coaching and operating-model design.

02

Technology

Roadmap ownership, architecture direction, platform strategy and applied AI.

03

Operations

SRE, on-call, incident leadership, post-mortems, observability and FinOps.

04

Commercial

Tool and vendor selection, contract negotiation and vendor and hiring budgets.

Experience

From hands-on engineering to global leadership.

  1. 2026—Now

    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—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—2024

    Technical Lead Engineer

    Beyond Pricing

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

  4. 2022—2024

    Cloud Platform Engineer & MongoDB PS Consultant

    Cogniflare

    Delivered enterprise architecture assessments, MongoDB professional services, training and cloud platform work.

  5. 2016—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.

Profile

Based in Switzerland. Available for the right senior leadership challenge.

Education
B.Sc. Software Engineering
Languages
Spanish · Native
English · C1
Location
Switzerland · Permit B
Focus
Engineering leadership · platforms · applied AI
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