Gerardo A.

• Defining enterprise-wide data platform long term plan for data ingestion, storage, and governance to enable secure, compliant, discoverable and trustable data products • Executing a comprehensive Data Office roadmap focusing on Compliance, Quality, Observability, and Marketplace enablement • Leading strategic initiatives execution and adoption, ensuring compliance with GDPR and EU AI Act requirements.

• Built and led a 60+ person department of Data Engineers, DataOps, and AI experts across international sites. • Transitioned the department into high-performing cross-functional teams to accelerate the delivery of Data and AI-driven solutions. • Executed a data re-skilling strategy that successfully accelerated the onboarding of new engineers, increase the data literacy within the organization and enabled a seamless transition to the Public Cloud. • Managed internal and external recruitment, performance reviews and mentoring, transforming the department into a resilient, high-performing, and innovative unit.

• Directed a team of 20+ Data Engineers to deliver high-impact BI and Data Products. • Piloted the transition to Public Cloud by establishing robust development practices and promoting technology convergence across teams. • Managed recruitment, coaching, and performance reviews fostering a high-performing engineering culture. • Drove transformation initiatives focused on organizational design and innovation, including early AI (e.g., Product Recommendation) and data serviceability projects. • Strengthened cross-functional collaboration between R&D, business units, and customers, significantly improving product quality and user satisfaction.

Leading a team of business analysts and big data engineers responsible of collecting, storing, processing and visualizing the data required to help airlines to measure the performances of their merchandising techniques.

• Led a Scrum team of 4 members to deliver a portfolio of REST APIs impacting three major business domains within the travel ecosystem. • Collaborated and guided Product Management to define product solutions and product roadmaps, ensuring alignment between engineering and business goals. • Ensured consistent and on-time delivery through clear prioritization, proactive risk mitigation, and transparent stakeholder communication. • Integrate and mentored junior analysts and engineers, enforcing engineering best practices and fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented mindset.

• Led prioritization and planning project activities cross sites (London, Sydney, Singapore and Nice). • Gathered, clarified and translated customer's needs into functional and technical requirements. • Coordinated the design and the execution of the customer implementation and software deployment activities. • Scrum Master: Coordinated with PO product construction. Led the definition and improvement of scrum team processes. • Participated to product development, functional specification writing, test campaigns, customer support, product maintenance (incident analysis and solution implementation). • Led and contributed to migration activities from legacy mainframe to an UNIX C++ backend stack