Product & Technology Strategy
Roadmaps grounded in architecture reality, with measurable outcomes and sane sequencing.
- Discovery to delivery ownership
- Build vs. buy decisions
- Technical due diligence
- Hiring and team design
Available for fractional CPTO / CTO engagements
Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO)
Bridging product vision, cloud architecture, and high-concurrency engineering leadership.
12+ years of end-to-end software leadership, spanning distributed systems architecture (Python, Go, Cloud), product management execution, and agentic AI integration.
- Years leading software
- 12+
- Product · Platform · People
- 3
- Working languages
- EN/ES
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cpto · fractional-executive
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product · architecture · delivery
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shipping · mentoring · scaling
Python · GogRPC · PostgreSQLAzure · Cloudflare
Companies, platforms & projects
Services
What I bring to a leadership team
Product direction, platform architecture, and delivery discipline — held by one owner instead of three.
Platform & Cloud Architecture
Distributed systems designed for throughput, clear boundaries, and graceful failure.
- Python (FastAPI) · Go
- gRPC · Protobuf · PostgreSQL
- Azure · Cloudflare · Linode
- Multi-tenant SaaS foundations
AI & Engineering Enablement
Agentic tooling and DevSecOps practices that shorten the path from idea to production.
- Agentic AI execution (E2B, vLLM/Ollama, OpenCode)
- SAST · container scanning · CI/CD
- Grafana observability
- Developer sandboxes
Selected projects
Systems built to survive production
Representative work adapted from real engagements. Full case studies are in progress.
01Featured project
PlusOne Modernization
Modernized a legacy engineering-calculation desktop application into a governed SaaS platform with projects, versioned calculations, validation evidence, reporting, permissions, and commercial plans.
PythonSaaSPostgreSQLQA parityMCP
20 modules represented · legacy parity program
View case study →02Featured project
THEIA Asset Integrity Management System
A SaaS workspace for pipeline integrity teams that connects data ingestion, dashboards, task management, analysis, mapping, and risk workflows into one operational view.
AngularPythonFastAPIPostgreSQLAzureGIS
Data lineage · spatial review · engineering workflows
View case study →03Featured project
Carbon Watch
An award-winning carbon-aware predictive maintenance platform for asset-heavy industries. Built with Penspen and Perkins&Will, it combines Microsoft Fabric data layers, explainable energy modeling, carbon-at-risk calculations, and geospatial fleet review.
Microsoft FabricAIGISPredictive maintenanceDecarbonization
Best Visualization · Sidara × Microsoft Hackathon
View case study →Experience
Leadership with hands on the keyboard
Twelve years from technical translation to engineering leadership, now across product and technology.
- Jul 2026 — PresentTechnology strategy · Engineering leadership
Chief Technology Officer
Leads global technology strategy, systems architecture and engineering management for an energy-sector SaaS platform, turning commercial goals into a roadmap the team can deliver.
- Define and execute the technology roadmap against strategic objectives and business growth.
- Own architecture for scalable, secure software serving asset-integrity workflows.
- Lead engineering teams, setting development practice and continuous delivery standards.
- Fold product vision into technical strategy and assess new infrastructure on cost, performance and time to market.
StrategyArchitectureLeadership - Jun 2023 — Jul 2026Product strategy · Delivery
Product Manager / IT Project Manager
Owned product strategy for a SaaS platform in oil and gas asset integrity, from discovery and roadmap through go-to-market and adoption.
- Built and maintained roadmaps prioritised against business goals, client needs and delivery capacity.
- Coordinated engineering, design, marketing and business stakeholders under Agile delivery.
- Used market research and product analytics to prioritise features and measure performance.
- Supported ISO 27000 implementation and certification activities for the SaaS solution.
ProductAgileGo-to-marketCompliance - May 2020 — Jun 2023Cloud · Data · APIs
Full Stack Software Engineer
Built and deployed engineering software end to end: Python analytics for mechanical assessment, APIs, cloud infrastructure and reporting.
- Designed and shipped Python tooling for integrity assessment, including remaining-life and corrosion-growth workflows.
- Modelled relational data and built REST APIs across PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB and Amazon Cognito.
- Deployed to AWS with CodeCommit, CodePipeline, ECR and Amplify, and maintained Docker/Swarm services.
- Connected Python services to Angular front ends with Apache ECharts, and prototyped GIS integrations with ArcGIS, Mapbox and Leaflet.
PythonAWSDockerPostgreSQLAngular - Nov 2014 — May 2020Bilingual delivery · Quality
Localisation Engineer & Technical Translator
Ran localisation and technical/legal translation for engineering documentation across Mexico, the US, Chile and the UK.
- Built terminology databases and translation memories that improved consistency and turnaround.
- Translated contracts, tender documentation and technical integrity reports covering risk and RBI.
- Served as internal ISO 9001 auditor and interpreted in client and commercial meetings.
LocalisationISO 9001Technical writing - Jan 2012 — Nov 2014Teaching · Communication
English Language Instructor (TESOL)
Taught English as a foreign language and Spanish to international learners, and trained incoming instructors.
- Designed and updated teaching material, assessments and interview evaluations.
- Supported IT for the institute's reception and administration.
TESOLTraining
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Background
Education, certifications and languages
Formal training in software engineering and language, plus current practice in AI tooling.
Education
B.Eng. Software Development Engineering
B.A. English Language
Interpretation & Translation
Languages
Spanish
Native
English
Full professional
French
Limited working
Latest certifications
See allEvaluating Agents with LangSmith
KodeKloud · Oct 2026
RAG & MCP Fundamentals
KodeKloud · Oct 2026
API Engineer: Node, Python, Django, PostgreSQL
Udemy · May 2026
Angular — The Complete Guide
Udemy · May 2026
Writing
Notes from the build
Field notes on distributed systems, AI agents, and the craft of shipping software.
aimssaasenergy-industry
Behind the Map: The Architecture Powering an Asset Integrity SaaS Platform
How an AIMS platform connects pipeline records, asset locations and engineering workflows while preserving traceability.
Cloud ArchitectureMicroservices
Designing for Failure: Resilience Patterns for Distributed Systems
The resilience patterns I reach for when a service absolutely cannot go down — and the trade-offs nobody mentions.
AI AgentsDevSecOps
Agentic Coding in Practice: What Actually Works
A grounded look at AI coding agents: where they help, where they hurt, and the guardrails that make them useful.
Contact
Let's build something resilient
Fractional CTO work, architecture reviews, or a stubborn distributed-systems problem — send a note.
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