CTO
Wishpond | Sep 2020 - Present
PHP
Python
Ruby on Rails
Angular
React
Vue.js
• Manage the development and product team.
• Support the transition to a fully remote company.
• Contribute to the exit as a public company.
• Grow the team from six to twenty-eight engineers, divided into four different multifunctional groups, one dedicated QA team with two full-time QA Specialists, one DevOps team with one tech lead, and one Senior DevOps Engineers.
• Build the product team with one Director of Product, two product owners, and one UX/UI designer.
• Promote opportunities to each team member to show and tell their contributions to the company.
• Assessed technology’s current state and established Strategy/roadmap addressing business and development needs.
• Acted as CISO and built IT Governance Framework
• Starting the creation of a BI department and all data initiatives
• Monitored and increased the quality and productivity levels of all resources/systems.
• Managed IT budgets, resources and collaborated with all other business units, partnerships, and stakeholders.
• Produced and delivered executive project-related communication such as status reports, progress metrics.
• Achieved project deliverables within the schedule, scope and budget defined.
• I am holding 1on1 regularly with direct reports.
• Support development of mayor complex tasks using Python, GoLang, Ruby, NodeJS, Elixir, ReactJS and VueJS.