HI, I'm

Damian Doña

With over 14 years of experience in the IT industry and more than 4 years leading software engineering teams, I excel at driving teams towards the business's strategic objectives, prioritizing efforts, and providing guidance and mentorship. I have collaborated with the CTO, Product teams, various stakeholders in Customer Success, Account Managers, Growth, and Partnerships, always focusing on delivering value to our customers.

TECHNOLOGIES & SKILLS

AWS based technologies
JavaScript
Python
Go
React
React Native
Engineering Management

MY APPROACH

Delivering results through two core pillars

1Project Management & Delivery

I am responsible for end-to-end project delivery, ensuring alignment between business, product, and technology. My role includes:

Translating business needs and stakeholder requirements into clear and actionable technical objectives.
Providing technical leadership and context to Product Owners, technical leaders, and C-level executives to facilitate decision-making.
Evaluating and communicating trade-offs between scope, velocity, cost, and reliability, prioritizing impact and sustainability.
Anticipating technical and business risks, defining mitigation strategies at the architecture and process levels.
Designing and promoting scalable and pragmatic technical solutions, adapted to the team and business context.
Ensuring predictable and quality deliveries through Agile, Scrum, and Kanban practices, supported by metrics and continuous improvement.

2People Management

I coordinate and develop engineering teams, which includes:

Leading the full hiring lifecycle, from sourcing and interviewing to onboarding new talent.
Technical and soft skills coaching, tailored to each person's level.
Helping identify professional growth opportunities and career development.
Providing constructive and continuous feedback, focused on constant improvement.
Mentoring in time management, productivity, and well-being, promoting healthy and sustainable teams.

Here are a few things I've been working with:

AWS based technologies
JavaScript
Python
Go
React
React Native
Engineering Management

Professional Experience

Humand
Sr Engineering Manager
Sep 2024 - Present
- I lead two multidisciplinary teams (Backend, Web, and Mobile Engineers) focused on the development of key products:
  - Chat Module: Implementation of a scalable and offline-first microservice to optimize real-time communication.
  - Livestreams and Video Calls: Development of advanced services that enable live streaming and real-time interactions with high quality and low latency.
- Microservices
- WebRTC
- Real-time
- Engineering Management
Be Awake AI
Technical Advisor & Full Stack Developer
Jul 2024 - Present
Side project about track and analyze digital content from diverse sources. On the team, I developed the dashboard where we displayed metrics and integrations with our AI.
- AI/ML
- Full Stack
- Dashboard
- Data Analytics
Retargetly
Engineering Manager
Jan 2022 - Sep 2024
- I lead the core engineering teams for Audience Integration and Audience Population, as well as the Tech Support team (operations).
- Responsible for career growth of software engineers and hiring manager of my teams.
- Ensure effective alignment of technology solutions, architecture and technology standards.
- Worked closely with tech teams, as well as non-technical stakeholders, to identify, prioritize, and solve problems collaboratively.
- Participate in the full development cycle.
- Team Leadership
- Engineering Management
- Architecture
- Stakeholder Management
Zenpros
Tech Advisor
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Responsible for development, uptime, performance, and operational costs.
- Performance
- Operations
- Cost Optimization
MercadoLibre
Systems Integration Lead
Aug 2017 - Jan 2022
- I apply a combination of business and technical expertise developing strategies that allow business growth leveraging data, applications, integrations and supporting technologies at various levels of the organization.
- Ensure effective alignment of technology solutions, architecture and technology standards.
- Briefings for IT and Business leadership on the health of their architecture portfolio, roadmap, trends in technology, etc.
- Track project delivery milestone working with scrum methodology.
- Systems Integration
- Architecture
- Data
- Scrum
- Engineering Management
Bianca
Tech Co-Founder
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
- Responsible for development, uptime, performance, and operational costs.
- Cloud Amazon AWS, Heroku, CI/CD in CircleCI.
- Full stack developer React.js, Django, PostgreSQL.
- Mobile developed in React Native.
- React
- Django
- React Native
- AWS
- CI/CD
Banco Galicia
Sr System Integration Analyst
Aug 2011 - Aug 2017
Responsible for the ETL design of banking objects such as clients, accounts, checks, checkbooks, movements, balances and others.
- ETL
- Data Integration
- Banking Systems
Telefonica
SAP Technical Netweaver
May 2010 - Aug 2011
Standardization of bank statements project.
- SAP
- NetWeaver
- Banking Systems

Education

Universidad de Palermo
2019 - 2021
Master of Business Administration
Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda
2015 - 2018
Bachelor's Degree in Business Management

Side Projects

NT Language Lab
Comparador de traducciones del Nuevo Testamento usando IA local.
View on GitHub

Contact

My inbox is always open. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi!

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