I've been leading tech departments, systems administration and infrastructure teams for 23+ years. I am a systems specialist with broad experience in organizational design, scalability, distributed systems, cloud architectures, GNU/Linux administration. At Spotify I started the Site Reliability Engineering department, and made it grow from 5 people to an infrastructure organization of 100+ individuals. I was also deeply involved in several business critical projects: the migration of 15K+ physical servers to Google Cloud, the preparation of the tech stack to become a publicly traded company, acquisitions of companies (due diligence processes), data protection regulations requirements, among others. I pioneered an effort to instrument the life of the engineering teams and the entire infrastructure stack to inform company wide investments to increase productivity by taking a data centric approach to identifying organizational and technological opportunities. Back in 2001, I started up my own company and ran it for 7+ years where I gained experience in project management, business administration and systems architecture. I was the technical lead and one of the managing directors and co-founders.