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Lluís Inglès Elias

About Me

I'm a highly motivated and dynamic Technology Leader. Passionate about building teams and technology for massive-scale businesses, improving operational efficiencies, and defining culture to align with strategic initiatives and organizational goals.
I started in the industry as a developer and spent more than 11 years switching between different stacks, in addition, I have been leading tech teams since 2012.
These are some of my strengths:

  • OKRs and Scrum
  • Ansible, Terraform, Packer
  • AWS
  • PHP, NodeJS
  • RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch

    • Resume

    Work Experience

    CTO - Exoticca

    Jan 2019 - Present

    Exoticca is a tech travel company leading the multi-day tour package space. As a CTO at Exoticca I built the technology team with more than 60 members and structured them in a domain-based squad, in addition, I helped the whole company adopt methodologies like Scrum and OKRs. I'm directly reporting to the CEO and also part of the Board.

    A list of other responsibilities and duties that I am currently doing or have been doing:

    • Manage the whole technology budget.
    • Build the first and current cloud architecture based on AWS and managed by IaC.
    • Define a product-tech roadmap aligned with the company's direction.
    • Structure and phase long-term projects into 2-week Sprints.
    • Define the strategy to migrate the whole frontend and backend.
    • Define a seamless architecture for all the teams helping them to understand different contexts.
    • Implement and define a career growth plan with different job levels and roles.
    • Build the Data team and data-driven strategy for the company.
    • Hiring and retention strategies, implementing a training budget, sponsoring conferences, and in-house training knowledge.
    • Define the development cycle policies, and speed up the delivery cycle in production from one deployment per week to 20 deployments per day.
    • Implement robust monitoring and observability culture to react fast once we detect some anomaly.

    CTO - Social & Beyond

    Apr 2017 - Jan 2019

    Social & Beyond is a marketing application that transforms a company's free POS Wi-Fi into a social media marketing tool.

    I joined the company as a CTO reporting directly to the CEO. I focused on the following milestones:

    • Grow the development team of 2 to 10 engineers.
    • OKRs and agile culture in all departments.
    • CI/CD for all applications, development, and staging environments, speeding up the delivery and reducing bugs.
    • Train technology members with all the stack.
    • Simplify the product by challenging and defining business KPIs.

    Tech Lead - Trovit

    Feb 2014 - Apr 2017

    Web team consists of 5 backends, 2 frontends, 3 QA, a product manager and a tech lead. As a tech lead in Web team my main responsibilities are: Leading in definition of the tech objectives for each quarter and monitoring of these during each sprint. Helping every member of the team to build his own career. Designing roadmaps for main projects. Also hiring new php members for whole company.

    Technologies:
    PHP 7, MySQL, Apache Kafka, beanstalkd, Solr, Redis, Memcached, TDD, Git

    Senior PHP Developer and Project Leader - Groupalia

    Jun 2012 - Feb 2014

    Development of an administration panel for the Customer Service/Support and Finance departments. Analysis of project functionals and developing projects as a project leader. Working with SCRUM methodology and implementation of TDD.

    Technologies:
    PHP 5.3, Zend Framework, Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Memcached, Magento, Twitter Bootstrap, TDD, Git

    Senior PHP developer - Splendia

    Apr 2011 - Jun 2012

    Backend development of new sections on the company's website. Bugfixing and tool enhancements. Working with SCRUM methodology and implementation of TDD.

    Technologies:
    PHP 5.3, MySQL, Memcached, CodeIgniter, Symfony 1.4, Git, SVN, jQuery, css

    PHP Developer - Vueling Airlines

    Oct 2007 - Apr 2011

    Bugfixing and tool enhancements. Goals: - Redefinition of seat assignment process - New front end architecture - Import all the flight destinations from acquired company Clickair.

    Technologies:
    PHP 5, Zend Framework, Skylights, Template Toolkit (based on Perl), MySQL, REST/SOAP Webservices, jQuery, css, SVN

    PHP and ActionScript Developer - On-Ways 2001, S.L.

    May 2006 - Aug 2006

    Landing pages development Bugfixing

    Technologies:
    PHP, ASP, Javascript, Flash, ActionScript

    PHP Developer - Alter Ego Disseny

    Jun 2005 - May 2006

    Landing pages development Bugfixing Interactive CD's based on Flash and Director

    Technologies:
    PHP, ASP, Javascript, Director, Flash, ActionScript See less

    ActionScript Developer - L'Estrop Produccions

    Jan 2003 - Feb 2004

    Landing pages development Interactive CD's based on Flash and Director

    Technologies:
    Flash, Photoshop, Director

    Professional Development

    Professional Scrum Master, PSMI

    Apr 2017

    License 239496

    Zend Certified Engineer

    Feb 2015

    License ZEND024469

    M101JS: MongoDB for Node.js Developers

    May 2014

    Languages

    Catalan

    Native or bilingual proficiency

    Spanish

    Native or bilingual proficiency

    English

    Professional working proficiency