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Technical Lead · Solutions Architect · Applied AI

I build enterprise platforms, and the AI agents that help run them.

Tech Lead for the Business Architecture Engine at Nestlé, where I connect how the business works with the systems that run it. Before that I led the WebCMS platform behind 300+ global sites. More than ten years of turning complex requirements into secure, governed architecture, and today that includes Claude, MCP and agentic workflows.

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Based in Cádiz, Spain

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NestléTech Lead, Business Architecture Engine

About

Architecture people can run, with AI where it pays off.

I connect what the business needs to see with how the systems actually behave, then guide a safe implementation.

I'm a Tech Lead and Solutions Architect who works between business architecture and hands-on engineering. I work directly with repositories, APIs and cloud resources, and I'm just as comfortable turning a stakeholder meeting into mappings, requirements and a plan a team can deliver.

Since November 2026 I lead the Business Architecture Engine at Nestlé, built on SAP LeanIX. Before that I led architecture and delivery for Nestlé's WebCMS platform: compliance automation, secrets governance and integrations for 300+ sites.

I build with LLMs every day: agentic workflows, tool calling, RAG and MCP, with Claude Code and the Anthropic SDK. I co-led the winning team at Nestlé's AI Hackathon, and I've done pre-sales work where I had to explain the same trade-off to a CFO and to a room of engineers.

  • Winner, Nestlé AI Hackathon (Claude Code + Anthropic SDK)
  • Invited to the Microsoft AI Tour, Zurich 2026
  • Promoted from Tech Specialist to Tech Lead

Impact

years in software engineering and architecture
10+
years in software engineering and architecture
enterprise sites on the WebCMS platform I led
300+
enterprise sites on the WebCMS platform I led
manual compliance effort, automated away by Cerberus
−80%
manual compliance effort, automated away by Cerberus
to rotate every in-scope secret, fully automated
<1h
to rotate every in-scope secret, fully automated
engineers led across dev, DevOps and operations
6
engineers led across dev, DevOps and operations

Selected work

Case studies

What I do

Where I help most

  1. 01

    Applied AI & agentic tooling

    Agents, tool calling, RAG and MCP servers that put LLMs to work inside real engineering and compliance workflows.

  2. 02

    Business & solution architecture

    End-to-end views that connect value chains and processes to the services and applications behind them, and systems designed to fit. Trade-offs explained to executives and engineers alike.

  3. 03

    Platform automation & security

    Cloud automation, integrations, secrets governance, RBAC and compliance on Azure, AWS and GCP. Automating the boring parts makes them safer.

  4. 04

    Engineering leadership

    Reviewing proposals, drawing clear implementation boundaries, sequencing dependencies and giving teams guidance they can act on.

How I work

The principles I lead with

  1. AI is an accelerator, not an authority

    I use AI every day to investigate and build faster, and I check what it gives me. Decisions stay with people who understand the consequences.

  2. Local until proven

    A plausible prototype isn't permission to go live. Mappings and behaviour are verified locally first, then changes reach production in a controlled way.

  3. Evidence over assumptions

    I go back to the source: the data, the code, the meeting recording. If the output misses what the business actually asked for, it isn't done.

  4. Decisions people can review

    Options side by side, explicit trade-offs and clear boundaries, so anyone can see why we chose what we chose.

  5. Automate what repeats

    If people do the same manual work every week, it deserves durable automation, built to stay correct when it runs twice.

Experience

Fifteen years, from C++ to agents

  1. Nov 2026 – Present

    Tech Lead, Business Architecture Engine · Nestlé

    Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain · Hybrid

    • Lead the technical side of business and enterprise architecture on SAP LeanIX: fact sheets, hierarchies, ownership, application relationships and data quality.
    • Connect value-chain and process views to the services and applications behind them, keeping verified relationships apart from presentation assumptions.
    • Automating the sync of a multi-level service catalogue from SharePoint into LeanIX (Microsoft Graph, Azure Logic Apps, managed identities), validated locally before any production run.
    • Turn stakeholder meetings and manual processes into mappings, requirements and reviewable prototypes, such as architecture dashboards for service landscapes and deployments.

  2. 2023 – Oct 2026

    Technical Lead, IT Innovation & WebCMS Platform · Nestlé

    Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain · Hybrid

    Promoted from Tech Specialist to Tech Lead

    • Led architecture and delivery for the global WebCMS platform: 300+ enterprise sites across Pantheon, Acquia and Platform.sh.
    • Co-led the winning team at the Nestlé AI Hackathon with Claude Code and the Anthropic SDK, and built a VS Code agent extension (TypeScript) for compliance workflows.
    • Designed and built Cerberus, a Python/FastAPI platform for access recertification and multi-platform audits that cut manual compliance work by over 80%.
    • Ran the Data Leak Mitigation programme: 100% of in-scope secrets in Azure Key Vault with strict RBAC, automated rotation in under an hour, and no production data in non-prod.
    • Architected the WebCMS Ops automation layer (Flask, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Event Hub) and integrations for the mseONE platform (GraphQL/Drupal): site provisioning, SAML/SSO and GDPR erasure.
    • Led a distributed team of six engineers and set the engineering standards and runbooks.

  3. 2022 – 2023

    Senior Backend Solutions Developer · Four Kitchens

    United States · Remote

    • Main technical consultant for large US clients on CMS modernisation, platform upgrades and refactoring.
    • Built clean-architecture solutions and CI/CD pipelines across GitHub, Pantheon and CircleCI, with zero-downtime deployments.
    • Ran discovery sessions with business owners and turned their requirements into engineering roadmaps.

  4. 2018 – 2022

    Senior Developer & Technical Team Lead · Emergya

    Seville, Spain

    • Worked with sales on discovery, scoping, technical proposals and architecture presentations that helped win enterprise contracts across Europe.
    • Designed REST APIs and microservices with Symfony and Laravel to connect enterprise CMSs with third-party systems.
    • Led an agile pod and kept Docker-based environments consistent from development to production.

  5. 2015 – 2018

    Full-Stack Web Developer · Xerintel

    Cádiz, Spain

    • Worked directly with SME clients to define requirements and deliver custom Symfony web applications.
    • Tuned databases and front-end performance to improve load times and organic traffic.

  6. 2010 – 2013

    Junior Software Engineer (Internship) · IBM

    Wrocław, Poland

    • Built C/C++ modules and took part in testing and code reviews at IBM's global delivery centre.

Skills

Toolbox

Applied AI & LLMs

  • Agentic workflows
  • Tool calling
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • Claude API / SDK
  • Claude Code
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Prompt engineering
  • Evaluations
  • AI safety & data privacy

Architecture & cloud

  • Business & enterprise architecture
  • SAP LeanIX
  • Solution architecture
  • Microservices
  • Event-driven systems
  • Azure (Key Vault, Functions, Logic Apps, Cosmos DB, Event Hub, Entra ID, managed identities, Bicep)
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Infrastructure as Code

Languages & frameworks

  • Python (FastAPI, Flask, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy)
  • TypeScript / Node.js
  • React
  • PHP (Symfony, Laravel, Drupal)
  • C/C++

Data & integration

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Solr
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs
  • Microsoft Graph
  • SharePoint
  • Data reconciliation

Leadership

  • Pre-sales discovery
  • Stakeholder & C-suite communication
  • Technical reviews
  • Team leadership
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Jira
  • Runbooks & documentation

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

    University of Cádiz · 2010 – 2014

  • Diploma in Computer Science Systems Engineering

    Wrocław University · 2010 – 2012

Certifications

  • Claude Code: Agentic Coding for Professional Developers

    Anthropic / LinkedIn Learning

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

    AIBES · 2021

  • Scrum Fundamentals Certified

    AIBES · 2021

  • Master & Expert in Drupal Architecture (Drupal 7 & 8)

    Forcontu · 2018

  • Development with Symfony 3

    KNP Labs · 2016

Languages

  • Spanish

    Native

  • English

    Full professional

Contact

Let's build something that lasts.

Want to talk about architecture, applied AI or a project you're working on? Email is the fastest way to reach me.

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