About

Daniel Lebrero is a highly experienced technical leader and architect with over 20 years of experience in the field. He has spent the last two years as the CTO of an 80+ organization, where he managed a distributed 16-person engineering team and reorganized teams into end-to-end cross-functional ones, resulting in an increase in quality. Daniel is experienced in multiple architectures, from web to distributed to embedded systems, from monoliths to microservices to big data, mostly on the JVM on the backend, with a keen interest in the operations side. Daniel is passionate about helping other engineers grow by mentoring, blogging at danlebrero.com (6k monthly visitors), and public speaking (16 conferences, including GOTO) about good practices (especially TDD), resilience, Clojure, and Kafka. He has a proven track record of fostering a culture of safe experimentation and learning, with fortnightly brown-bag sessions and the introduction of the Toyota Kata. He has established an open communication policy both on C-level decisions and at an individual level, resulting in increased trust across the teams and company-wide. Daniel's past experience includes being the CTO of Akvo, where he decreased lead time from months to days by limiting working in progress and moving to weekly sprints. He introduced the Accelerate metrics that informed the teams on what improvements to focus on and aligned product development, team structure, and cost to the new business strategy. Daniel also worked as a Solutions Architect at IG Index, where he pioneered the first microservices and big data applications, introduced TDD, pair programming, Docker, and Clojure, and trained, mentored, and coached developers and architects. Daniel holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. His tech stack includes skills in senior software engineering, product management, integration, infra, Clojure, big data, web, Kafka, microservices, backend, Spark, Docker, Hadoop, Salesforce, and mobile. With over 22 years of relevant experience, Daniel is a highly skilled and accomplished technical leader and architect.