Curriculum vitae

Gonzalo García

Engineering Manager · Frontend Engineering

Original CV (older) ↗← Portfolio

Professional experience

May 2024 – Present (LinkedIn)PVcase

Engineering Manager

People and team health

  • Achieved 100% developer retention across all teams through individual growth plans, regular feedback and engineer-owned team rituals.
  • Coached two engineers into Senior roles and supported a QA analyst transitioning into product management through targeted coaching and stretch assignments.
  • Established a structured hiring process for a new role, defining its scope, job description and interview ownership.

Delivery and outcomes

  • Launched a new customer-facing product in 10 months by building the team from scratch and sequencing scope against launch risk.
  • Shipped major releases across two products, including features that opened a new market, through quarterly planning, release previews and sprint reviews.
  • Coordinated penetration testing and introduced AI tooling spend guardrails to control risk and cost.

Strategy and cross-functional leadership

  • Co-owned the roadmap with product and design, using estimation and confidence-vote sessions to sequence broad initiatives.
  • Moved a winning hackathon prototype into the official roadmap within one week and delivered product features within two months.
  • Aligned scope, estimates and dependencies with platform and adjacent teams across Europe and the US to protect launch priorities.
    Mar 2022 – May 2024CarOnSale

    Engineering Manager

    • Led two engineering teams and coordinated hiring, resource allocation, performance management and stakeholder communication.
    • Developed engineering roadmaps, team processes and delivery practices.
    • Managed end-to-end software delivery, coaching, one-to-ones and career development.
    Oct 2019 – Mar 2022CarOnSale

    Senior Frontend Developer

    • Developed scalable Angular frontend solutions using TypeScript, HTML and CSS.
    • Led technical reviews, mentoring, frontend performance optimization, CI/CD and automated testing.
    Feb 2019 – Oct 2019interactive tools GmbH

    Senior Frontend Developer

    • Developed frontend integrations and enterprise CMS solutions with FirstSpirit, JavaScript and jQuery.
    • Participated in technical recruitment and code reviews.
    May 2018 – Feb 2019interactive tools GmbH

    Frontend Web Developer

    • Built and maintained reusable frontend architectures and FirstSpirit-based sites.
    Oct 2015 – Apr 2018~sedna GmbH

    Frontend Developer

    • AngularJS, TypeScript, Node.js, Sass, Webpack, Karma and Jasmine.
    Jun 2014 – Oct 2015Unister GmbH

    Frontend Web Developer

    • JavaScript, jQuery, Sass and PHP frontend development.
    Jun 2013 – Jun 2014NASDAQ OMX

    Frontend Web Developer / Webhosting Product Specialist

    • Frontend development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Sass.
    Nov 2011 – May 2013Thomson Reuters

    Frontend Web Developer / Webhosting Product Specialist

    • Frontend development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Sass.
    Nov 2008 – Apr 2013Instituto Cervantes Munich

    Webmaster / System Administrator

    • Maintained the institutional website, supported systems administration and designed institutional materials.
    Oct 2007 – Sep 2008Spanish Embassy in Berlin / ICEX

    System Administrator

    • Maintained intranet systems, provided technical support and systems administration.
    Apr 2006 – Aug 2007Ahorro y Titulización S.G.F.T.

    Developer

    • Developed web and internal applications using ASP, Visual Basic and Oracle.
    Nov 2005 – Apr 2006Coritel

    Junior Developer

    • Maintained internal applications for ENRESA using Visual Basic and SQL Server.

    Education

    Bachelor’s degree · Digital Design

    Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

    2016 – 2022 (LinkedIn)

    Web Application Design and Development

    UNED

    2010 – 2012 (LinkedIn)

    Telecommunications Engineering

    Universidad de Valladolid

    1999 – 2005

    Skills & languages

    Engineering leadership

    Team leadership · Hiring · Performance management · Roadmaps · Budgeting · Resource allocation · Coaching

    Frontend engineering

    Angular · TypeScript · JavaScript · HTML · CSS · Node.js · UX/UI · Accessibility

    Delivery & tooling

    Git · CI/CD · Automated testing · Jest · Karma · Scrum · Kanban · Jira · Confluence

    Languages: Spanish — Native / Bilingual · English — Full Professional · German — Full Professional · Italian — Limited Working · French — Elementary

    Certifications

    Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist · Claude Code in Action · shaping-up-with-angular-js · Git Real