Summary
Albert Pastrana is a seasoned Director of Engineering based in Barcelona with over 12 years of experience building and scaling product engineering teams and web architectures across gaming, e‑commerce and SaaS. He blends hands‑on technical depth in Scala, TypeScript, Akka Streams, Spark and PostgreSQL with proven leadership—growing teams from single digits to 25+ and moving legacy platforms to modern SOA and containerized deployments. A Certified Scrum Master and advocate of Agile, CI/CD and TDD, he has repeatedly implemented process improvements (pull requests, coding dojos) that raise delivery quality. His background spans front‑end and back‑end stacks as well as operations, and he often steps into both GM and engineering roles to align product, people and tech strategy. Notably, he has led platform re-architectures and international team transitions while keeping delivery on schedule in high‑pressure environments.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Management Skills for IT Professionals in Organizations, Graduate Management Skills for IT Professionals in Organizations at Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Spanish, Catalan