Abel Muíño is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience who currently serves as VP of Engineering at Cabify, overseeing 100+ product-focused engineers across frontend, backend, mobile and infrastructure. He blends a deep engineering mindset with pragmatic management, favoring iterative delivery, short cycles, and solutions that directly address customer problems. His career spans telcos, consulting, startups and his own boutique agency, giving him rare fluency in both hands-on development (Ruby on Rails, mobile hybrids) and organization-level scaling. Abel is skilled at removing organizational barriers, aligning engineering with product and company goals, and launching continuous deployment practices that accelerate value delivery. He mentors technical leaders and startups, applying lessons from open-source project leadership (Eclipse IAM/Maven integration) to enterprise engineering. Based in Madrid, he combines founder-level operational grit with the strategic reach of a senior technology executive.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Startups, Entrepreneurship, Business Plan, Prototyping, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Business Plan, Prototyping at Tetuan Valley Startup School
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Universidad de A Coruna
Contributions:18 commits, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
erlangcouchdb-clientapachedatabaseapache-couchdb
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