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Engineering Leader & Technologist
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From Montevideo to Madrid, my path spans event photography, educational robotics, full-stack systems, and engineering leadership. I care about high-trust cultures, craft in software, and building a full life beyond the screen.
I was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, in a home where curiosity was second nature. With a father who was an engineer and inventor at heart, and a mother who worked as a doctor in bacteriology, I grew up in an environment where taking things apart to understand how they worked, staying grounded, and approaching challenges with a positive mindset were part of everyday life. That curiosity led me directly to my degree in Computing Engineering. Along the way, photography taught me how to observe: for four years, what began as a dedicated hobby with a master photographer turned into documenting social and cultural events, capturing people’s most meaningful moments.
Teaching was my next revelation. At Plan Ceibal, I joined a division tasked with introducing school teachers across Uruguay to technology. Traveling across the country to connect with educators and students sparked a lifelong love for mentoring and helping others build confidence in technical realms. That soon transitioned into educational research with classroom robotics and 3D printing.
My passion for building brought me into modern web development, starting with PHP, jQuery, Java EE, and MongoDB, later advancing into Spring Boot and React. At Ascentis, I worked on complex US Payroll systems, advancing from Full-Stack Engineer to Engineering Lead.
In 2022, I took a leap of faith to join Personio as an Engineering Manager, relocating with my family to Madrid, Spain when our first daughter was just eleven months old. Today, with three daughters, Madrid is deeply our home, and I bring that same curiosity, empathy, and rigour to empowering engineering teams.
“My parents taught me the value of hard work, discipline, and perseverance, and to never settle for less than what I'm capable of. They encouraged my curiosity, supported every big leap, and showed me that warmth, laughter, and a positive mindset are the true foundation of everything we build.”
With a father who was an engineer and inventor at heart (our home was a workshop of endless curiosity), and a mother specialized in bacteriology, they showed me how to stay grounded and face life with genuine positivity.
Computing Engineering
University degree & 4 years of social and event photography.
Teacher & Researcher
Nationwide educator training, educational robotics & 3D printing.
Full-Stack to Lead
Leading engineering on mission-critical US Payroll platforms.
Engineering Manager
Scaling teams, fostering psychological safety & product excellence.
Leading engineering teams isn’t about micromanaging output; it’s about creating high-trust environments where engineers have clarity, agency, and the room to innovate.
Listen closely to teammates and users before prescribing technology. Psychological safety and clarity unlock velocity.
Break down ambiguous domains into crisp architectural steps. Unblock tangled problems with focus and steady cadence.
Empower engineers to own their solutions, take calculated bets, and achieve things they didn’t know they could do.
High-performance engineering cultures don’t happen by accident. Throughout my leadership journey, I’ve found that team velocity and individual craftsmanship compound when these conditions exist:
Teams with end-to-end problem ownership, low bureaucracy, and an uncompromising commitment to shipping resilient, clean software.
Ambitious product domains (distributed SaaS, platform core, fintech) where architectural rigour and platform reliability directly anchor customer trust.
Blameless learning loops, room for calculated bets, and a coaching culture dedicated to elevating engineers into Staff and Lead impact.
Direct translation between product vision and technical roadmaps, ensuring every engineer understands how their code drives business leverage.
While my primary focus is leading enterprise engineering teams and mission-critical distributed systems, I stay deeply curious and hands-on by exploring modern AI tooling, experimenting with agentic workflows, and building side projects as creative hobbies.
Engineering Management & Core Systems Architecture · Madrid, Spain
Deeply involved with Personio's Native German Payroll product from day one. Over the years, I have had the privilege of leading multiple engineering teams across mission-critical domains powering accurate, statutory-compliant payroll runs for thousands of European businesses:
Led the core calculation engine, ensuring deterministic accuracy, zero-fault tax computation, and low-latency gross-to-net execution at high scale.
Managed the platform and shared infrastructure layer, focusing on reliable asynchronous data flows, architectural standards, and developer productivity.
Currently leading one of the specialized tax teams, handling complex German regulatory logic, evolving compliance rules, and direct authority integration.
Kotlin, AWS (S3, RDS, SQS, SNS), Event-Driven Architecture, PostgreSQL
Initially scaled across 22 microservices for domain isolation; now driving consolidation into a unified, high-performance service model.
Full-Stack Architecture & Engineering Lead · US Payroll Platform
Helped lead the transformation of a mission-critical desktop payroll product into a modern, cloud-first web platform serving thousands of companies across the United States.
Monolithic desktop Java Swing client application with core payroll and tax calculation logic rooted in legacy COBOL services.
Decomposed the monolith into four clean, focused microservices integrated seamlessly with the broader ASP.NET Core HR enterprise ecosystem.
Java (Spring Boot), React (Next.js), PostgreSQL, REST APIs, ASP.NET Core
Replaced legacy desktop dependencies with high-availability web APIs and modern responsive UI components.
Full Stack Web Developer & Tech Lead · Applied Robotics Researcher
Directed the architectural design, development, and server infrastructure for high-scale educational platforms and web applications serving public education nationwide across Uruguay.
Architected and delivered large-scale web applications and database architectures using PHP (Laravel), Java EE, and JavaScript (jQuery).
Managed client discovery, technical specifications, Linux web server administration, and continuous production release schedules.
Researched pedagogical applications of robotics and additive manufacturing, designing training curricula for teachers and students nationwide.
PHP (Laravel), Java EE, JavaScript (jQuery), SQL Databases, Linux Server Admin
Nationwide educational technology platform reaching hundreds of thousands of students and teachers.
AI-Assisted Rapid Prototyping & Web Exploration
A hands-on side exploration leveraging modern AI development tools and agentic workflows to rapidly design, build, and deploy a clean, welcoming web presence for clinical nutritionist Alejandra Fernández.
Algorithmic Game Logic & AI Pair Programming
Inspired by popular tabletop card games with similar dynamics, built as a fun weekend hobby exploring mathematical finite projective planes for card symbol matching. Experimented with AI pair programming to rapidly implement game state machines, fluid keyframe effects, and zero-framework performance.
Native Multiplatform App · SwiftUI
A multiplatform app for macOS (14.0+) and iOS (17.0+) built with SwiftUI. It scans your photo library or local files for large videos and media above chosen thresholds (like 100MB, 500MB, or 1GB) and compresses them with custom resolution, codec, frame rate, and bitrate settings while preserving all original metadata, including dates, GPS coordinates, albums, and favorite status.
Open Source Research & Creative Tooling
A personal passion project bringing together my background in photography and modern AI. Currently in the research phase and on pause, exploring open source projects to fork from, such as Darktable, with the goal of creating something simple and intuitive to use like Adobe Lightroom.
Beyond engineering and architecture, my world revolves around family adventures, the open road, racing mechanics, and the constant curiosity to understand how things work.
“She is my partner in life, the love of my life, my best friend, and my greatest source of strength. There is an unmistakable chemistry in how we complement each other, and we have built a partnership where no challenge feels too big when we face it together.”
She is a psychologist and an NLP coach, with an energy and warmth that constantly inspires me and lifts me up whenever I need it most. We can spend hours talking about everything and anything, from raising our three daughters to our next travel adventures, careers, and the milestones we want to reach next. Building this life alongside her is the best journey I could ever ask for.
From our early foundation in Montevideo and quiet seaside days awaiting our first daughter, to winter getaways across the Alps, each chapter deepened our shared journey.
My favourite thing in the world is packing the car and heading out on road trips with my wife, our three daughters, and Lola.
It brings together everything that anchors my life: quality time with my family, the freedom of driving without a rigid agenda, and facing every new milestone as a united team. Relocating from Montevideo to Madrid when our first daughter was eleven months old was a huge leap of faith, made possible by the unwavering partnership and energy I share with my wife, who as a psychologist and coach brings immense clarity and heart to our family. Today, as a family of five with three daughters and Lola, Madrid is deeply our home.
An everyday fascination with automotive engineering, telemetry, powertrain mechanics, and racing culture. Passing down that spark on the karting track with my daughter is one of my greatest joys.
Lola was the first to join us, before kids, before Madrid, before everything. She crossed the ocean with us without hesitation. We don't say three daughters and a dog, we say four daughters.
A genuine fascination with hardware and tinkering: from drones, robotics, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi, to PC benchmarking, CPUs, GPUs, camera sensors, chips, VR, and sim racing haptics.
A gamer since the Atari era. Today my go-to escapes are sim racing rigs dialed into realistic physics and expansive open-world titles pushed to maximum ray tracing settings.
Scaling high-leverage engineering teams with high autonomy, crisp architectural alignment, and psychological safety.
Next-gen GPU microarchitectures, developer ergonomics with AI tooling, and automotive powertrain engineering.
Sim racing telemetry sessions, ray-traced graphics benchmarks, and exploring with my family.
Let’s connect
Whether you're scaling an engineering organization, navigating complex technical trade-offs, or exchanging notes on high-trust culture and modern architectures, I'm always keen to connect with fellow leaders, founders, and craft-driven teams.