David Ortega

• Leading solution architecture and pre-sales engagements for banking clients
• Conducting AS-IS / TO-BE assessments for platform transformation programs
• Designing engineering platforms, integration platforms, and journey-to-cloud strategies
• Supporting international expansion assessments and lifecycle platform transformation initiatives
• Engaging with high-level technical and business stakeholders to align solutions with business goals

• Oversaw technical direction of a full ecosystem of Java microservices in the capital markets domain
• Responsible for architecture, solution design, code quality, and overall technical delivery
• Led a team of six developers (senior and junior profiles)
• Tech stack: Java 11, Spring Boot, OpenAPI, React, Absis framework
• End-to-end technical leadership: proposals, estimations, architectural decisions, mentoring, stakeholder alignment

Responsibilities

• Orchestrated the enhancement of the "Customer Identity Access Management" system using Java 17, Spring Boot, and integrating Okta API for secure, reliable backend solutions.
• Mentored junior engineers, instilling high standards and technical prowess, while navigating a dynamic, hybrid work environment.
• Cooperated with various departments to ensure robust, high-quality deliverables, utilizing Oracle databases for enhanced security compliance and performance.

Achievements

• Led the deployment of pivotal features within the Customer Identity Access Management platform, fortifying cybersecurity measures and reducing system vulnerabilities.
• Garnered recognition for swiftly resolving technical debt and enhancing system capabilities, significantly contributing to Swiss Re's operational resilience.

• Design, implement, test, deliver, and maintain Nexthink product's features.
• Proactively collaborate with Product Management, Designers, and all types of Engineering stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems that have a large scope, complexity, and business impact.
• Craft code that meets standards for style, maintainability, and best practices. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Recognize impediments to efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
• Ship complex features and improvements.
• Handle L3 support requests (together with the rest of the team).
• Work with the agile iterative/incremental mindset and best practices, and participate actively in the different ceremonials.

Being CIO means ensuring that information technology adds maximum value to the company to facilitate the success of the business. Responsible for the three Diners Club IT pillars: Development, Infrastructures, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Member of C-Suite Board
• Development team management, leading Java and .Net projects
• Direct and organise IT-related projects
• Collaborate with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications
• Analyse the costs, value and risks of information technology to advise management and suggest actions
• R&D and BAU

Planned and handled all company IT projects with a multidisciplinary development team. Managed vendor relations, budgets, and architecture tasks.

• Architectural definition of new projects
• Bringing together different project participants, seeking optimal, flexible, high-quality developments
• Planning and budgets
• Vendor relations
• Head of Research and Development

Structured, planned, and ensured the proper working of the company's different IT projects, seeking the highest degree of connectivity between systems and people involved.

• Architectural definition of new projects
• Remodelling and upgrading existing projects
• Bringing together project participants, seeking optimal, flexible, high-quality developments
• Head of Research and Development
• Led redesign of AS400 system to new platforms: RESTful Web Services, .NET, Dynamics CRM, Java 8

Developed new products, improved QA, and led technological renewal of the IT department. Key project: design and development of Capri, the new Authorizing Center replacing the AS400 system, built with ASP.NET MVC, C# 4.5 Windows Services, and WebServices.

• Creation and development of new products
• Technical support to other IT departments – Scrum Master
• Deputy team leader

Design and development of Atrium, a client portal and internal working tool. Rebuilt the existing application improving security, performance, and usability. Designed a new architecture using JSF2, JDO 3, Ajax.

Development of web applications for bank sector companies, such as Banco Santander. Used a proprietary CASE tool (Halee) to generate J2EE code for SIBBAC and ATRIUM projects using JSF, JDO, and SDO.

Development of websites Rumbo.es, Rumbo.com, Viajar.com, Opodo.es. Part of the SEO team applying techniques to increase browser ranking — achieved a 20% increase in visits and multiplied by 1000 the number of webpages indexed by Google.