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Andrés Torres works at Kalyp as CTO.
Passionate engineering leader, developer, architect, and public speaker with several years of experience and a proven track record of success in building and shipping complex custom-made software solutions, especially in the fintech and financial ecosystem. Production experience in cloud architectures from development to deployments and certified developer in Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. He enjoys travelling and working in multicultural environments, as he has done in the UK, Netherlands and Spain. Experienced in fast-paced growth tech companies, played a key role in his previous company's growth from 200 to 2000 employees. He was instrumental in helping adopt cloud and microservices architectures, which enabled the company to scale rapidly and stay ahead of the competition, specifically in the adoption of microservices and cloud-based infrastructure. As he progressed to leadership positions, he continued to drive innovation and efficiency in the technology stack by implementing alignment, consistency and improving development workflows. Throughout this growth period, he also demonstrated strong leadership and collaboration skills, working closely with other departments to ensure alignment with company goals. He embraced the company's culture of innovation and agility and contributed to fostering a positive and productive workplace environment. Experience sharing knowledge and explaining technology, both internally and externally. Always eager to learn something new.
Passionate engineering leader, developer, architect, and public speaker with several years of experience and a proven track record of success in building and shipping complex custom-made software solutions, especially in the fintech and financial ecosystem. Production experience in cloud architectures from development to deployments and certified developer in Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. He enjoys travelling and working in multicultural environments, as he has done in the UK, Netherlands and Spain. Experienced in fast-paced growth tech companies, played a key role in his previous company's growth from 200 to 2000 employees. He was instrumental in helping adopt cloud and microservices architectures, which enabled the company to scale rapidly and stay ahead of the competition, specifically in the adoption of microservices and cloud-based infrastructure. As he progressed to leadership positions, he continued to drive innovation and efficiency in the technology stack by implementing alignment, consistency and improving development workflows. Throughout this growth period, he also demonstrated strong leadership and collaboration skills, working closely with other departments to ensure alignment with company goals. He embraced the company's culture of innovation and agility and contributed to fostering a positive and productive workplace environment. Experience sharing knowledge and explaining technology, both internally and externally. Always eager to learn something new.
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Andrés is definitely one-of-a-kind team player: everybody excels when he is involved, leveling up the quality in what needs to be delivered [...] Truly can-do person
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Andrés is a great professional, with initiative, ability to solve, always at the forefront of new technologies
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Most Relevant Professional Experience
78 of 78 people found the following review helpful
At Kalyp, London, UK
My main focus as the CTO is to create a great engineering culture that encourages innovation and growth. Including:
• Develop and execute a visionary technology roadmap aligned with our business objectives.
• Lead the adoption of cutting-edge technologies to enhance our product offering.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to foster a culture of innovation and continuous learning among the engineering team.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our company remains innovative.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features.
• Drive the development of scalable and reliable software architectures using agile methodologies.
• Oversee the end-to-end software development lifecycle, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery.
• Work with the executive team to define and execute the overall technical strategy and roadmap.
• Evaluate potential technical partnerships and acquisitions to enhance our capabilities and accelerate growth.
• Champion a culture of data-driven decision-making, leveraging analytics and insights.
• Build and lead a high-performing engineering team, attracting top talent and fostering collaboration.
• Provide mentorship and professional development opportunities to empower team members.
• Promote a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement within the engineering organization.
127 of 127 people found the following review helpful
At Backbase, London, UK
• Overall responsible for the Backend of Backbase platform. Balancing long-term strategy and
short-term needs with input from all stakeholders, including Product Managers, Development
Managers and Customer Success and (Pre)sales teams.
• Responsible to ensure that all technical product decisions provide means to deliver within appropriate time scales and in line with customer expectations. Expert in the field, including scalability, availability, performance, extendability and cross-platform topics. On top of all relevant technology developments, rapidly assess them and determine if they are relevant for Backbase and its customers.
• Contributing to an efficient setup of the SDLC and ensure facility requirements being delivered in backend services in a lean way and with good quality.
• Establishing strong and trusted relationships with customers, internal stakeholders and external suppliers to ensure we deliver a great product, by driving security, deployment, operation, performance, sizing, scalability, and reducing the cost of ownership for our customers as well as the cost of maintenance for ourselves.
• Aligning with the Directors of Mobile, Frontend, Security and QA to ensure a holistic view and to ensure the delivery of a consistent product. Also, developing an engineering culture so that engineers are able to do their best work and care deeply about their growth.
• Responsible to ensure that all technical product decisions provide means to deliver within appropriate time scales and in line with customer expectations. Expert in the field, including scalability, availability, performance, extendability and cross-platform topics. On top of all relevant technology developments, rapidly assess them and determine if they are relevant for Backbase and its customers.
• Contributing to an efficient setup of the SDLC and ensure facility requirements being delivered in backend services in a lean way and with good quality.
• Establishing strong and trusted relationships with customers, internal stakeholders and external suppliers to ensure we deliver a great product, by driving security, deployment, operation, performance, sizing, scalability, and reducing the cost of ownership for our customers as well as the cost of maintenance for ourselves.
• Aligning with the Directors of Mobile, Frontend, Security and QA to ensure a holistic view and to ensure the delivery of a consistent product. Also, developing an engineering culture so that engineers are able to do their best work and care deeply about their growth.
101 of 101 people found the following review helpful
At Backbase, London, UK
Responsibilities:
• Support the development team to ensure features are implemented in a technically excellent and cost-effective way.
• Provide full stack technical leadership, advisory and troubleshooting support to team and be a focal point for all technical issues and initiatives on the project
• Hands-on involvement on critical and/or complex features, specially in those that require technologies or frameworks the development team is not familiar with.
• Define standards and best practices to stick to, as well as, ensure the development team follows Backbase Way of Working.
• Produce documentation useful for the development team. This can be from Sequence Diagram to how-to’s.
• Manage internal stakeholders.
• Provide support to the customer with environments and deployment.
• Align QA and DEV teams in the testing strategy.
• Implement CD/CI processes with support from DevOps engineer.
• Support the development team to ensure features are implemented in a technically excellent and cost-effective way.
• Provide full stack technical leadership, advisory and troubleshooting support to team and be a focal point for all technical issues and initiatives on the project
• Hands-on involvement on critical and/or complex features, specially in those that require technologies or frameworks the development team is not familiar with.
• Define standards and best practices to stick to, as well as, ensure the development team follows Backbase Way of Working.
• Produce documentation useful for the development team. This can be from Sequence Diagram to how-to’s.
• Manage internal stakeholders.
• Provide support to the customer with environments and deployment.
• Align QA and DEV teams in the testing strategy.
• Implement CD/CI processes with support from DevOps engineer.
118 of 118 people found the following review helpful
At Backbase, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Responsibilities:
• Enterprise Integration with any customer backend systems, developing APIs, deploying the solutions, configure severs.
• Lead Backend technical discipline community across PS department.
• Actively share experience, skills and knowledge across teams.
• Document and spread best practices in a certain discipline.
• Advocate a high quality via standardising techniques and tools across teams.
• Maintain a technical consistency of the product and practices.
• Grow and mentor high-caliber, experienced engineers to help them doing valuable work which they can enjoy.
• Envision a technical roadmap for the backend discipline.
• Enterprise Integration with any customer backend systems, developing APIs, deploying the solutions, configure severs.
• Lead Backend technical discipline community across PS department.
• Actively share experience, skills and knowledge across teams.
• Document and spread best practices in a certain discipline.
• Advocate a high quality via standardising techniques and tools across teams.
• Maintain a technical consistency of the product and practices.
• Grow and mentor high-caliber, experienced engineers to help them doing valuable work which they can enjoy.
• Envision a technical roadmap for the backend discipline.
118 of 118 people found the following review helpful
At Cagpemini, Utrecht, Netherlands
Senior Developer with several years of experience and proven track record of success in building
and shipping complex custom-made software solutions.
With an extensive experience building software solutions from the ground working with Java technologies like J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services and Git among others for Capgemini Financial Services
With an extensive experience building software solutions from the ground working with Java technologies like J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services and Git among others for Capgemini Financial Services
118 of 118 people found the following review helpful
At Informa D&B, Madrid, Spain
• Development and maintenance of J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JSP, GWT, WebServices, and
Oracle 11g architecture
• Development and maintenance of an SOA-based Mule 3.2
• Management processes and new developments in PL / SQL, with large volumes of data
• BD Management: Oracle 11g, MySQL
• Management Struts, Spring, Hibernate, SVN, Git, JAVA, J2EE, WebServices, SQL, PL / SQL, JSP, GWT in daily work
• Analysis and design applications using UML
• Proposal best possible solutions and customer
Tools used: / Java, J2EE, JSF, JSP, GWT, Maven, Oracle 11g, PL SQL, MySQL, Spring, Hibernate, SVN, Git, WebServices, UML, Mule 3.2
• Development and maintenance of an SOA-based Mule 3.2
• Management processes and new developments in PL / SQL, with large volumes of data
• BD Management: Oracle 11g, MySQL
• Management Struts, Spring, Hibernate, SVN, Git, JAVA, J2EE, WebServices, SQL, PL / SQL, JSP, GWT in daily work
• Analysis and design applications using UML
• Proposal best possible solutions and customer
Tools used: / Java, J2EE, JSF, JSP, GWT, Maven, Oracle 11g, PL SQL, MySQL, Spring, Hibernate, SVN, Git, WebServices, UML, Mule 3.2
118 of 118 people found the following review helpful
At Treelogic, Asturias, Spain
Development Java, J2EE, JSF, Spring, Asturias Framework applications.
Development a presentation architecture based on JSF and Spring for CaixaGalicia Bank BD Management: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
Analysis and design applications using UML
Development a presentation architecture based on JSF and Spring for CaixaGalicia Bank BD Management: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
Analysis and design applications using UML
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