Data engineer | Product Owner | Engineering Manager
- born on 11/28/1982 in Cuenca, Spain
- EU-citizen
- location: Madrid, Spain
- email: j.andres.pizarro@gmail.com
- languages:
- español
- english
- management skills:
- Agile
- JIRA
- One on Ones
- Communication
- Decision-making
- Adaptability
- Conflict resolution
- Team building
- Performance management
- technologies:
- Python
- Java
- Apache Spark
- AWS
- Data
Engineering & Product Leader with a 360º vision of the software development lifecycle. My extensive technical background provides the necessary expertise to guide large-scale projects while maintaining a sharp focus on strategic business objectives. With a proven track record in international environments, I currently specialize in the governance and optimization of cloud infrastructures and the implementation of AI-driven solutions. I excel at aligning stakeholder requirements with technical team capabilities, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technological innovation.
_Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Real-time development, project engineering, software engineering, operating systems
Agile process fundamentals
Product development and strategy, management.
Engineering Management fundamentals.
Soft Skills, Personal development
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Optimizes and analyzes cloud data platform costs, collaborating with technical and business teams to enhance efficiency and maximize data value.
- Advanced Analytics processes development focused on analyzing user costs over ADA Platform.
- User Documentation creation for Spain users.
2021-2024 : Product Owner / Engineering Manager at BBVA Technology, formerly Datio Big Data (Madrid, Spain)
As a Product Owner, I lead the strategy of two different teams in the scope of BBVA Data Platform.
- Advanced Analytics Team: From January 2021 to June 2023.
- Business Intelligence Tools: From July 2023.
Responsibilities associated with this role include the following tasks.
- Negotiate with stakeholders the deliverables to be developed for future releases.
- Communicate with final users the features delivered, both in presentations and workshops.
- User needs processing towards discovering candidate features to be included in future releases.
Part of my job also consists on managing a team individual contributors both backend and frontend developers.
- Manage a backlog fed from stakeholder needs according to the platform strategy.
- Coordinate the work to be done accross the Sprints, prioritizing the needs and working towards clearing expectations.
- Setting the goals and individual expectations of the team members, specially during the one-on-one meetings.
- Promoting onboarding initiatives for incoming members.
- Coordination with other teams any other initiative whose scope extended the advanced analytics team.
Big Data engineer leading the set up, provision and deployment of Python-based solutions for Apache Spark processes. Core concepts associated to Python deployment, including python project archetypes, libraries and runtime artifacts provision, testing techniques are generated according to Datio requirements.
Software engineer leading different software projects involving Java and Python technologies in the aerospace industry, focusing on near real-time performance. These projects include Desktop applications, backend services and software that requires hardware integration. Part of my experience took place as an expatriate, working for clients such as SES Americom (Luxembourg) and Eutelsat (France).
- PyCon 2021 speaker Documenta sin ser un escriba (Document without being a scribe)
- Software design
- Agile methods
- Data Science
- Cloud development
- Team Management