Summary

  • Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience, from hands-on software development to leading organizations of 150+ people.
  • Strong technical roots in software architecture, cloud-native platforms, and high-scale systems, combined with a passion for building resilient, secure, and compliant products.
  • Believer in domain-oriented teams, shared ownership, and continuous learning — creating environments where engineers thrive and innovation is sustainable.
  • Experienced in navigating growth and change: integrating teams post-acquisition, scaling platforms, and aligning tech strategy with product evolution.
  • Entrepreneurial and community-minded: co-founder of a start-up acquired by Just Eat and contributor to the open-source ecosystem.

Work Experience

2023 - NOW

Chief Technology Officer

Signaturit Group

2023-Now


  • Led the integration of multiple companies into a unified R&D organization.
  • Defined and executed the engineering strategy in alignment with business and product goals.
  • Oversaw platform integration projects following multiple acquisitions.
  • Drove initiatives in platform scalability, performance optimization, and cloud migration.
  • Rebranded teams and introduced a domain-oriented organizational structure inspired by Team Topologies.
  • Showcased at AWS re:Invent 2024 as early adopters of Q Developer.
    aws.amazon.com/q/developer/transform
  • Championed AI adoption across the development lifecycle and product features.
  • Embedded QA within development teams and promoted a prevention-first approach to quality.
  • Implemented CI/CD practices, restructured release pipelines, and decoupled deployment from release.
  • Cultivated engineering culture through shared rituals, continuous learning, and a centralized handbook.
  • Contributed to a cross-domain ownership model for shared platform systems.
  • Worked as a Qualified Trust Service Provider (QSTP) under the eIDAS framework, ensuring compliance in multiple regulatory audits and maintaining secure, resilient operations in highly regulated environments.
  • Team Management: 100–150 people.
  • Leadership
  • Cloud Architecture
  • On Prem
  • HSM
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Kubernetes
  • Microservices
  • AI/ML
  • DevOps
  • Platform Engineering
  • Scalability
  • Team Topologies
  • Domain-Driven Design
  • Software Quality
  • Observability
  • Agile

2015 - 2023

Chief Technology Officer

Mad Collective

2020-2023


  • Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
  • Develop technical aspects of the company's strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
  • Technical Leadership and ownership.
  • Strategical contributions to the tech & product roadmap.
  • Helping to nurture and evolve the engineering culture.
  • IC career path creation.
  • DevOps approach adoption and platform team creation.
  • Observability Strategy definition.
  • Team Management: 60-70 people.

Director of Engineering

2019-2020


  • Responsible for IT department
  • Responsible for the successful execution of our products strategies.
  • Technical Leadership.
  • QA strategy redefinition.
  • Increase products stability and their uptime.
  • Help to nurture and evolve culture.
  • Team Management: 60-70 people.

Head of Software Development

2018-2019


  • Responsible for the development of B2C products.
  • Define and implement engineering best practices and strategies.
  • Building new teams.
  • Help improve team processes.
  • Improve existing teams productivity and engagement.
  • Domain-Driven Development advocate.
  • Hands-on engineering leader.
  • Promote CI/CD.
  • Architecture and strategic decisions.
  • Team Management: 20-30 people.

Software Manager

2015-2018


  • Manage Extreme concurrency, 100M request day.
  • Refactor legacy code.
  • Mentoring.
  • Hiring new team members.
  • Domain-Driven Development.
  • Microservices implementation.
  • Migration from bare metal to AWS.
  • Testing (Unit, Functional, Integration).
  • Architecture decisions.
  • Team Management: 5-8 people.
  • Golang
  • PHP
  • Amazon AWS (EC,S3,SQS,SNS)
  • RDS / MYSQL
  • DynamoDB
  • Mongo DB
  • ELK
  • Elastic Cache / Redis
  • Rabbit MQ
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • CircleCI, DataDog, Solr

March 2013 - September 2015

Backend Developer Leader

Massive Dynamic Multimedia


  • Architect and backend lead in series.ly and tviso.com
  • Extreme concurrency and high availability. (Position 23 in Alexa Spain)
  • Refactor legacy code.
  • TDD
  • NoSql data modeling.
  • Code profiling.
  • Architecture decisions.
  • Project Management: Time and resources.
  • Team Management: 3-4 people.
  • PHP
  • MongoDB
  • Amazon AWS (EC,S3,EMR)
  • MYSQL
  • Redis
  • Memcache
  • JAVA
  • XHprof,Vagrant,GIT

January 2011 – January 2015

CTO & Co-funder

Food2u


Sold to Just-Eat in 2015 (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/food2u)
  • Acuina (REST API for food ordering) Architecture, design and development. (http://www.acuina.com/).
  • Food2u.es design and development (www.food2u.es), (http://www.food2u.es/awards.php)
  • Food2u Android, Iphone and Ipad design and development.
  • Product strategics decisions.
  • Project Management: Time and costs.
  • Team Management: 1-2 people.
  • PHP
  • MYSQL
  • Amazon AWS
  • Redis
  • Memcache
  • JAVA
  • DNS
  • JAVASCRIPT
  • PYTHON
  • GIT
  • SVN

October 2008 – February 2012

Software Engineer

TechIDEAS


  • GirLabel (Desktop Label Editor) Architecture, design and development.
  • Gootaxi (REST API for Taxi Reservation) Architecture, design and development (www.gootaxi.com)
  • SegurCaixa Maps development (II Premio a la Innovación en Seguros http://goo.gl/Kij0H)
  • Development with C++ and QT in embedded devices used in Taxitronic Taximeters.
  • Advanced knowledge of XMPP protocol.
  • Advanced knowledge in GNU/LINUX development.
  • Design SOA reference architecture for Universidad Rovira
  • Development of theories prototypes en I+D European Project (BioNets)
  • Network core development in SIRONTA project (www.sironta.com)
  • Project Management: Time and costs.
  • Team Management: 2-7 people.
  • PHP
  • C++
  • OSGI
  • RCP
  • QT
  • Linux
  • Android
  • SVN
  • GIT
  • XMPP
  • REST
  • JSON
  • SOAP
  • MYSQL
  • ORACLE

August 2002 – October 2008

Software Development and Project Management

Institut Català de la Salut


Project Manager

  • Development and design the Intranet used in Tarragona province CAP center.
  • Creation of custom MVC framework used internal applications.
  • Analysis, design and test of rehabilitation hospital software.
  • Analysis, design and test of TESO, virtual Hospital guide and room search.
  • Planning and execution of migration from “Sistema Integral de Administración Hospitalaria. (SIAH)” to SAP.
  • Project Management: Time
  • Team Management: 2-7 people.
  • PHP
  • C#
  • Java
  • Python
  • Swing
  • ORACLE
  • MYSQL
  • SVN
  • SOAP
  • HTMLCSS
  • JavaScript
  • AJAX
  • Symfony Propel

Software Development

  • Developer
  • Development inventory application.
  • Development some applications to improve internal sanitary circuit.
  • Migration legacy software from ASP + IIS to LAMP.
  • PHP
  • MYSQL
  • ORACLE
  • SVN

Formal Education

2011

Master of Software Engineering

University Politecnica de Madrid
Finished master with honors


2008

Computer Engineering

University Oberta de Catalunya
Final Project finished with honors
CIFSClient (http://code.google.com/p/cifsclient)


2003

Técnico Superior en Administración de Sistemas Informáticos

IES Vidal i Barraquer (Tarragona)


Certifications

2009

English conversational course

University Autònoma de Barcelona


2008

WJB-310-EE5: Developing Applications for the Java EE

Sun Web Learning Center.


2006

Computer Engineering specialization: Object Oriented Programming

University Oberta de Catalunya.


2005

Computer Engineering specialization: Systems Management

University Oberta de Catalunya.


2002

CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate

IES Vidal i Barraquer (Tarragona) (750h).


2002

International work program by Cisco Systems.

Foyle Language Center (Derry, Irlanda)


Personal Project

https://github.com/jmartin82

https://github.com/jmartin82/mmock

Golang

Mmock is an HTTP mocking application for testing and fast prototyping.

https://github.com/jmartin82/mkpis

Golang

Mkpis is measuring the development process for Gitflow managed projects.

https://github.com/jmartin82/mconfig

Golang

Mconfig is a lightweight Golang library for integrating configs files like (json, yml, toml) and environment variables into one config struct.

Golang contributor

Golang

Small contributions to golang std lib.

https://github.com/jmartin82/phplapse

C

PHPlapse is a zend extension that allow analize part of your script execution flow.

https://github.com/jmartin82/DicDoc

PHP

Magic type hinting for dependency injection container results.