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Daniel Rodriguez
a Head of Engineering Technical Director Technical Leader

▪ Rebuilt accountability and ownership models across 5 teams (30 engineers / 5 EMs), eliminating cross-team ambiguity and restoring predictable delivery commitments.
▪ Unblocked €7.2M ARR in delayed or at-risk initiatives by driving execution ownership, resolving technical constraints, and aligning stakeholders around clear delivery plans.
▪ Actively partnered with Product, Sales, and executive stakeholders, contributing to €2M ARR closed through RFI/RFP support and customer-facing technical leadership.
▪ Achieved zero voluntary attrition over 12 months by strengthening leadership structure, career development, and organizational clarity.
▪ Implemented AI-assisted defect triage and guided resolution workflows, significantly reducing manual bug-handling effort and improving SLA compliance; ~80% of resolved defects leveraged assisted workflows.
▪ Drove engineering governance including technical debt prioritization, architectural decision-making, and ISO 27001 implementation at the engineering level.

▪ Promoted to Director of Engineering to lead an organizational and operating model transformation, strengthening execution, leadership maturity, and team engagement.
▪ Designed and implemented a new engineering organizational structure with clearly defined roles, responsibilities, and ownership models across teams and initiatives.
▪ Introduced and standardized an agile operating model to support the new organizational structure and improve cross-team execution discipline.
▪ Increased overall team engagement and improved delivery throughput by approximately 40% through clearer ownership, better planning practices, and stronger engineering management.
▪ Raised engineering management maturity, enabling earlier identification of bottlenecks, performance gaps, and systemic delivery risks.

▪ Led an engineering team while driving execution and delivery coordination across multiple teams and initiatives beyond direct scope.
▪ Influenced planning, prioritization, and technical decision-making across team boundaries in partnership with Product and Engineering leadership.
▪ Implemented team-level leadership practices (1:1s, feedback, development), contributing to improved engagement and readiness for scale.

▪ Led a 16-engineer organization during a stabilization phase, restoring delivery reliability, clarifying ownership, and establishing foundational leadership routines (1:1s, feedback, hiring discipline).

▪ Managed a software engineering team within a high-bar product organization, with responsibility for delivery execution, cross-functional coordination, and team health.
▪ Owned people management responsibilities including 1:1s, performance feedback, and career development in line with Google’s engineering standards.
▪ Operated within Google’s structured planning, review, and quality frameworks, maintaining execution discipline and delivery reliability.
Role concluded due to organizational restructuring.

▪ Led a web delivery organization across 15+ concurrent client projects, ensuring execution reliability, technical consistency, and on-time delivery.
▪ Provided people leadership and delivery oversight for developers, DevOps, and operations profiles while acting as technical counterpart to external stakeholders.

Progressed from senior IC to people leader, combining hands-on delivery with team leadership, mentoring, planning, and execution coordination across client projects.

▪ Senior Developer / Web Developer / Sysadmin roles across Spain and Germany (PHP, WordPress, Linux, backend systems).