Resume

Engineering Manager · Product-focused Tech Lead · AI-driven Builder

Career Highlights

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  • Led engineering teams of 3–10 developers
    balancing delivery with mentoring, onboarding and career development. Experienced with teams of different sizes and levels of seniority.
  • Owned roadmap sizing and prioritization
    estimating cost and timing while aligning engineering outcomes with business stakeholders.
  • Reduced production issues
    by ~4 hours/week and accelerated release cadence (bi-weekly → weekly) through structured reviews, CI/CD and mentoring practices.
  • Introduced AI and automation
    optimizing user lifecycle management and content generation workflows, saving ~8h/week and reducing operational risk.
  • Built observability dashboards
    with PostHog and Mixpanel, enabling business and product teams to make data-driven decisions.
  • Drove cross-team impact
    by collaborating with Product, Marketing, Sales and QA to ensure measurable outcomes.

Experience

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Engineering ManagerFrenetic.ai (02/2021–Present)

Leading engineering for a SaaS platform for magnet design and simulation.

Stack: PHP 8 (Laravel 9), Vue 3, TypeScript, Pinia, MySQL, Python (REST), AWS (serverless), Puppeteer (PDF)

  • Managed a team of 3–10 engineers, balancing delivery with mentoring and growth.
  • Conducted interviews for frontend, backend, QA and DevOps roles.
  • Mentored juniors and peers, collaborating on merge requests through pair programming.
  • Worked with QA and PM/POs to evolve processes: Jira validation columns, dedicated testing branches, conventional commits and semantic versioning.
  • Partnered with Product, Business, Marketing and Sales to ensure engineering output had measurable business impact.
  • Optimized user lifecycle (sign-up/deactivation), eliminating manual DB queries.
  • Built dashboards and event-driven tracking with PostHog and Mixpanel.

Team Lead / Full-Stack DeveloperIsobar (Dentsu Group) (04/2019–02/2021)

Technical lead across multiple web and app projects.

Stack: Python, PHP, Node.js/Express, React/Material UI, Salesforce, WordPress, Prestashop, Drupal, Magento, AWS, Google App Engine, DigitalOcean

  • Led development squads delivering multi-brand websites and e-commerce integrations.
  • Defined technical standards and collaborated with QA, product and design teams.
  • Standardized deployment workflows across heterogeneous stacks, improving delivery predictability.
  • Interviewed and mentored developers across frontend and backend roles.

Full-Stack DeveloperProduct School (06/2018–04/2019)

Built components and an LMS with Node.js and React.

  • Improved performance and SEO with caching and deployment strategies.
  • Collaborated with product and marketing to align features with business impact.

Team Lead / Full-Stack DeveloperQuodem (Healthcare) (12/2015–06/2018)

Projects for pharma clients such as MSD, Pfizer, Bayer, GSK.

  • Led teams developing secure, compliant sites with Umbraco and Drupal.
  • Established CI practices and code review culture.
  • Coordinated with medical and business stakeholders to ensure compliance and usability.

CTO / Full-Stack DeveloperPSD (07/2012–07/2018)

Technology director for clients including Santander, BBVA, Ferrovial, BNP, CECABANK.

  • Directed projects from estimation to delivery with PHP, jQuery and WordPress.
  • Owned roadmap sizing and cost estimation; balanced priorities with clients.

Front-End DeveloperMcCann Erickson (10/2011–07/2012)

Projects for Coca-Cola, Disney, Opel, Madrid regional government, Ikea.

  • Delivered responsive web experiences using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and PHP.

Webmaster / Web DeveloperGuía del Ocio (03/2008–10/2011)

Oversaw maintenance and development of guiadelocio.com.

  • Modernized site architecture with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ColdFusion and PHP.
  • Ensured stability and improved content workflows for editors.
Rubén González Aranda
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Rubén González Aranda

Madrid, Spain

Engineering Manager with over 18 years of experience leading teams and building digital products.