Alonso Gragera Aguaza
Head of Platform (CPO & CTO) at Gamestry- Claim this Profile
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Javier Maestre Eduardo
After one year of working together with Alonso as CTO & CPO, I can say that he has an exceptional combination of technical prowess and strategic vision. As CTO, he was able to conceptualize, design, and execute innovative solutions. As CPO, he showcased an exceptional ability to translate technical details into user-centric products, being able always to understand the market trends and customer needs. He fostered a culture of collaboration and innovation within our teams, inspiring cross-functional cooperation and nurturing a sense of ownership among team members. It was a real pleasure to work with Alonso.
Ferran Blanché Xandri
As a CPTO, I hired Alonso twice and I would definitely do it again. He is a very knowledgeable Product Lead both in Product Management and Technical Architecture. He is also a very hands on professional that helps leverage the best of the team members skills to deliver quality on time. As a leader, he posses the ability to not only understand but mentor our most technical team members. Therefore engaging them into strategic decisions and setting them up for success. As a direct report, Alonso is very easy to work with. Having strong opinions and making sure to speak up when in disagreement but committing to delivery when a decision was made. Also his curiosity helps him build an strong skill set comprising both technical (mostly backend and infrastructure knowledge) and product. Finally, Alonso has been working on the startup scene in multiple occasions giving him a very lean, agile, customer centric and data drive approach to problem solving. In conclusion: Alonso is a strongly technical Product Lead that would enhance the performance of any Product team lucky enough to have him in.
Javier Maestre Eduardo
After one year of working together with Alonso as CTO & CPO, I can say that he has an exceptional combination of technical prowess and strategic vision. As CTO, he was able to conceptualize, design, and execute innovative solutions. As CPO, he showcased an exceptional ability to translate technical details into user-centric products, being able always to understand the market trends and customer needs. He fostered a culture of collaboration and innovation within our teams, inspiring cross-functional cooperation and nurturing a sense of ownership among team members. It was a real pleasure to work with Alonso.
Ferran Blanché Xandri
As a CPTO, I hired Alonso twice and I would definitely do it again. He is a very knowledgeable Product Lead both in Product Management and Technical Architecture. He is also a very hands on professional that helps leverage the best of the team members skills to deliver quality on time. As a leader, he posses the ability to not only understand but mentor our most technical team members. Therefore engaging them into strategic decisions and setting them up for success. As a direct report, Alonso is very easy to work with. Having strong opinions and making sure to speak up when in disagreement but committing to delivery when a decision was made. Also his curiosity helps him build an strong skill set comprising both technical (mostly backend and infrastructure knowledge) and product. Finally, Alonso has been working on the startup scene in multiple occasions giving him a very lean, agile, customer centric and data drive approach to problem solving. In conclusion: Alonso is a strongly technical Product Lead that would enhance the performance of any Product team lucky enough to have him in.
Javier Maestre Eduardo
After one year of working together with Alonso as CTO & CPO, I can say that he has an exceptional combination of technical prowess and strategic vision. As CTO, he was able to conceptualize, design, and execute innovative solutions. As CPO, he showcased an exceptional ability to translate technical details into user-centric products, being able always to understand the market trends and customer needs. He fostered a culture of collaboration and innovation within our teams, inspiring cross-functional cooperation and nurturing a sense of ownership among team members. It was a real pleasure to work with Alonso.
Ferran Blanché Xandri
As a CPTO, I hired Alonso twice and I would definitely do it again. He is a very knowledgeable Product Lead both in Product Management and Technical Architecture. He is also a very hands on professional that helps leverage the best of the team members skills to deliver quality on time. As a leader, he posses the ability to not only understand but mentor our most technical team members. Therefore engaging them into strategic decisions and setting them up for success. As a direct report, Alonso is very easy to work with. Having strong opinions and making sure to speak up when in disagreement but committing to delivery when a decision was made. Also his curiosity helps him build an strong skill set comprising both technical (mostly backend and infrastructure knowledge) and product. Finally, Alonso has been working on the startup scene in multiple occasions giving him a very lean, agile, customer centric and data drive approach to problem solving. In conclusion: Alonso is a strongly technical Product Lead that would enhance the performance of any Product team lucky enough to have him in.
Javier Maestre Eduardo
After one year of working together with Alonso as CTO & CPO, I can say that he has an exceptional combination of technical prowess and strategic vision. As CTO, he was able to conceptualize, design, and execute innovative solutions. As CPO, he showcased an exceptional ability to translate technical details into user-centric products, being able always to understand the market trends and customer needs. He fostered a culture of collaboration and innovation within our teams, inspiring cross-functional cooperation and nurturing a sense of ownership among team members. It was a real pleasure to work with Alonso.
Ferran Blanché Xandri
As a CPTO, I hired Alonso twice and I would definitely do it again. He is a very knowledgeable Product Lead both in Product Management and Technical Architecture. He is also a very hands on professional that helps leverage the best of the team members skills to deliver quality on time. As a leader, he posses the ability to not only understand but mentor our most technical team members. Therefore engaging them into strategic decisions and setting them up for success. As a direct report, Alonso is very easy to work with. Having strong opinions and making sure to speak up when in disagreement but committing to delivery when a decision was made. Also his curiosity helps him build an strong skill set comprising both technical (mostly backend and infrastructure knowledge) and product. Finally, Alonso has been working on the startup scene in multiple occasions giving him a very lean, agile, customer centric and data drive approach to problem solving. In conclusion: Alonso is a strongly technical Product Lead that would enhance the performance of any Product team lucky enough to have him in.
Credentials
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
MicrosoftSep, 2020- Oct, 2024 -
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
Scrum.orgDec, 2019- Oct, 2024 -
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
GoogleOct, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate
MicrosoftJan, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations -
Japanese Language Proficiency Test - Level N2 (JLPT N2)
The Japan Foundation and Japan Educational Exchanges and Services -
Japanese Language Proficiency Test - Level N3 (JLPT N3)
The Japan Foundation and Japan Educational Exchanges and Services -
TOEFL iBT 101/120
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Experience
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Gamestry
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Spain
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Internet Publishing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Platform (CPO & CTO)
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Feb 2023 - Present
In Gamestry, we are building the largest mobile-first Gen Z streaming platform. I lead both the Product and Engineering teams, jointly known as the Platform team (this includes all the Designers, PMs, Developers, and Testers), focusing on minimizing time to market whilst ensuring essential product quality.My responsibilities include:- Collaborate on the company strategy, building a clear Vision and mission; alongside Guillermo Torrens (CEO), Oriol Esteban (Head of Marketing), and Alejandro Orozco (Head of Content).- Lead the discovery phase to ensure product-market fit and validate our product hypothesis for new products.- Establish OKRs to ensure they stay aligned with our mission while allowing room for experimentation.- Define and execute the global architectural strategy of the company, identifying technology trends, keeping up to date our development culture, tooling, and methodology. Show less
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Principal Software Architect
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Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Principal Software Architect for Platform team at Gamestry, a mobile-first Gen Z streaming platform.My responsibilities include:- Design and develop the software architecture for our new platform, leveraging a microservices with monorepo approach to create an effective CI/CD pipeline.- Negotiate and perform migrations of technology providers and cloud platforms. - Do reviews for architectural decisions at all the stack levels (infrastructure, backend, frontend and design system).- Code and perform code reviews as part of the development team, but with special focus on promoting peer learning. - Coach my team to introduce new technologies and methodologies (such as CI/CD, TDD/BDD, and Kanban) for modernizing the infrastructure and code architecture, creating a testing strategy, as well as introducing delivery-oriented best practices; in order to minimize the maintenance and new development efforts.Methodologies: CI/CD, TDD, IaaCTools: VSCode, GitHub, GCP, Vault, Terraform Show less
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Lead Product Manager
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May 2022 - Feb 2023
Lead Product Manager for Gamestry, a service that provides VOD for the GenZ.My responsibilities include:- Understanding and representing user needs- Monitoring the market and developing competitive analyses- Collecting and curate new ideas- Prioritizing product features and capabilities- Building and sharing strategic roadmaps- Planning and delivering releases- Analyzing and reporting on progress- Mentoring members of the product teamMethodologies: Scrum, KanbanTools: Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence), Notion, Figma, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Data Studio Show less
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Next Chance Invest
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Spain
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Investment Management
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Product Manager - Fraud detection, API & B2B integrations @ NoFakes
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Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Product Manager for the tribes of Solutions, API & Integrations, and Validations at NoFakes, NC43|Tech's service that provides analysis of fake online reviews for merchants based on AI/ML and community curation.My responsibilities include:- Understanding and representing user needs- Monitoring the market and developing competitive analyses- Setting the product vision and strategy- Aligning stakeholders around the vision for the product- Collecting and curate new ideas- Prioritizing product features and capabilities- Building and sharing strategic roadmaps- Planning and delivering releases- Analyzing and reporting on progressMethodologies: KanbanTools: Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence), Notion, Airtable, Miro, Figma Show less
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Senior Product Manager - Search & AI/ML @ Billionhands
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May 2021 - Mar 2022
Product Manager for Donna, NC43|Tech's internal service that provides analysis, search and recommendations capabilities based on AI/ML over text and image for fashion products.My responsibilities include:- Understanding and representing user needs- Monitoring the market and developing competitive analyses- Setting the product vision and strategy- Aligning stakeholders around the vision for the product- Collecting and curate new ideas- Prioritizing product features and capabilities- Building and sharing strategic roadmaps- Planning and delivering releases- Analyzing and reporting on progressMethodologies: Kanban, BDD, CI/CDTools: Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence)Technologies: Typescript, Python, TerraformTesting: Jest, pyTest, Behave, LocustDatabases: AWS Storage (S3, DynamoDB, Athena, CloudWatch)Machine Learning: AWS SageMakerDevOps: Git, Containers (Docker, AWS ECR, AWS Fargate), AWS Code Suite (CodeArtifacts, CodePipelines, CodeBuild) Show less
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Unit4
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Product Owner - Innovation
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Jul 2019 - May 2021
Product Owner for the Innovation area, where we built services for automatizing tasks in Unit4 products using Machine Learning and other Artificial Intelligence techniques. Create features and user stories documentation based on the cross-product business requirements and cross-functional product strategy, maintain prioritization of the product backlog across all business requirements. Make sure that the development team understand the business requirements, that the features are tested, and that non-functional requirements are satisfied. Also contribute to identifying potential companies/products to buy, partner or build alternatives.Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, BDD.Tools: Azure DevOps, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Show less
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Machine Learning Expert
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Jan 2019 - May 2021
Specialist in Machine Learning as part of the Innovation area. Involved on putting the "self" of self-driven in Unit4 software solutions: ERP, FP&A and HCM... using a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence and classical operations optimization techniques.Technologies: C#, PythonTesting: xUnit, SpecFlow, pyTestMethodologies: TDD, BDD, Kanban, ScrumDatabases: Azure Storage, DatabricksDevOps: Git, Azure Pipelines
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The University of Tokyo
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Japan
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Reseach Student
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Apr 2013 - Sep 2017
Research in Game Tree Search, Dissimilarity indexes, Graph Theory, Big data and Machine Learning Technologies: C++, Ruby, Python, R, Julia Methodologies: TDD DevOps: Git Documentation: LaTeX Research in Game Tree Search, Dissimilarity indexes, Graph Theory, Big data and Machine Learning Technologies: C++, Ruby, Python, R, Julia Methodologies: TDD DevOps: Git Documentation: LaTeX
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H2O Housecare
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Japan
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Hospitality
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-founder
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Apr 2014 - Oct 2015
Formely: HouseCare (by MommyCare K.K.)https://housecare.tokyoI founded, bootstrapped and exited Japan's largest Airbnb cleaning marketplace, with 13 employees & 2,000+ cleaners. HouseCare went from $0 to $1 million in sales in 2 years before being adquired by the H2O Hospitality Group.
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
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Apr 2014 - Sep 2015
Design and implement the architecture of a service for house cleaning on demand primarily oriented to young single working persons and AirB&B listings.Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sencha ExtJS, Bootstrap, SassTesting: RSpec, Cucumber, JasmineMethodologies: TDD, BDD, CI, CD, Extreme ProgrammingDatabases: MongoDBDevOps: Jenckins, CodeShip, Docker, AWS, Git
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Microsoft
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United States
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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DPE Spain Intern
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Jul 2009 - Sep 2009
Design and implement websites and technical demonstration applications oriented to showcase new Microsoft technologies to academia (both professors and students). Technologies: C#, WPF, WCF, Silverlight, W7 Multi-touch API, ASP.NET Design and implement websites and technical demonstration applications oriented to showcase new Microsoft technologies to academia (both professors and students). Technologies: C#, WPF, WCF, Silverlight, W7 Multi-touch API, ASP.NET
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Education
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2020 - 2021
Quantic School of Business and Technology
Master of Business Administration - MBA -
2013 - 2017
The University of Tokyo
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science -
2012 - 2013
Universidad de Granada
Grado en Matemáticas, Matemáticas -
2011 - 2012
Universidad de Granada
Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Data Science -
2010 - 2011
Turun yliopisto
Exchange Program, Computer Science -
2010 - 2011
Åbo Akademi
Exchange Program, Computer Science -
2006 - 2011
Universidad de Granada
5-year Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering -
2009 - 2010
Human Academy
Exchange Program, Japanese languaje
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