Sergio Collado Vázquez
Lead Engineer & Software Architect
Profile
Lead software engineer and software architect with 11+ years taking digital products from idea to production. Engineering at IKEA, Adevinta (Fotocasa), Fintonic, EDP and DataBeacon, Tech Lead at Garaje de Ideas, and since 2024 CTO & Co-Founder of Synkross, where I lead architecture, engineering and delivery.
I own products end to end, from the business problem and the architecture to the technical decisions, the team and production. Having run a company, I also understand the cost of each decision. Interested in Lead, Staff and hands-on Architect roles.
Experience
CTO & Co-Founder
Nov 2024 to PresentSynkross, Madrid and Luxembourg
Custom software company in Madrid and Luxembourg. I lead the technical direction, architecture and delivery of every product, from requirements to production.
- Architecture and delivery of web, mobile and backend products for Airplane Solutions, Sense Living, CSC Tech, Kelimbo, Fliply, Stowly and Buddy Market, among others.
- Engineering standards, code quality and delivery process for a fully senior team, working directly with founders and business stakeholders.
- Own infrastructure on Kubernetes with CI/CD, monitoring and backups. AI features with language models in production.
Front End Tech Lead
Jul 2024 to Dec 2024Garaje de Ideas, Madrid
Digital product consultancy. Tech Lead for the new web platform and CMS of an international pharmaceutical company.
- Frontend architecture, CMS integration and coding standards.
- Internationalisation by country and language for a single multi-market product.
Freelance Full Stack Engineer
Mar 2020 to Dec 2024Freelance, Madrid
Custom web and mobile products for companies and startups, from technical design to production, deployment and maintenance included. Synkross grew out of this work.
Software Engineer
Sep 2023 to Aug 2024IKEA, Madrid
New international food platform with e-commerce and landing pages for several markets. Technical reference of the team for Next.js and design systems.
- Rolled out the Skapa design system across all projects, extended it with custom components and documented it in Storybook.
- Trained the development and design teams in Next.js and the design-to-development workflow.
Front End Engineer, Fotocasa
Jul 2022 to Sep 2023Adevinta Spain, Madrid
New management panel for Fotocasa real estate agencies, in a team with a strong review culture.
- Features end to end with test coverage, plus CI and observability with Travis, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions and Datadog.
Front End Engineer
Feb 2022 to Jul 2022Fintonic, Madrid
Loan application, assessment and offer funnel on the web, measured at every step and connected to the backend assessment services.
Front End Engineer
Mar 2021 to Feb 2022DataBeacon, Madrid
AI-powered air traffic control application built from scratch together with the CTO.
- Real-time flight map with Leaflet and WebSocket, controller tools, ML conflict-prevention models integrated in the interface, component library in Storybook.
CRO Developer, EDP Solar
May 2020 to Mar 2021EDP, Madrid
Conversion optimisation for the EDP Solar website, where users size a photovoltaic installation and request a quote.
- A/B tests on the solar calculator and quote flow that changed business logic and offers, measured in Google Optimize and shipped to the live site.
Co-Founder & CEO
Apr 2018 to Nov 2019Cubik Systems, La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz
IT services company for businesses and the public sector in Andalusia. Ran the business and delivered the technical projects myself, from business software and websites to networks, servers and POS systems.
Founder & CEO
Jan 2015 to Apr 2018Nativa3D, La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz
Designed, manufactured and sold our own range of 3D printers, grew into a national wholesaler. First prize at Encuentro de Ideas del Estrecho 2015.