Albert Sellarès
Global VP Of Engineering (entire Adevinta Group) at Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolAlbert Sellarès is a seasoned technology executive with 17 years of experience who currently serves as Global VP of Engineering for Adevinta, leading ~1,500 engineers across a portfolio that serves ~200M monthly users and generates ~€2B in annual revenue. He blends a cybersecurity and infrastructure background with pragmatic, lean-startup and OKR-driven practices to deliver large-scale platform consolidations, M&A integrations, and measurable improvements in deployment velocity, uptime, and user-facing performance. Previously as CTO of Adevinta Spain he scaled revenues from ~€80M to ~€200M while integrating multiple brands such as InfoJobs and Fotocasa, and he’s been instrumental across Adevinta’s IPO and merger history. A hands-on systems thinker and teacher, he also founded education and startup ventures, trains kids in coding, and teaches a Master’s course in AI at Universitat de Barcelona. Colleagues know him for trust-based, to-the-point leadership that reduces attrition and cycle time while increasing experimentation and engineering morale.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Communication Skills That Empower Your Leadership, Communication Skills That Empower Your Leadership at IESE Business SchoolUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaPostgraduate in digital leadership (S-PACE) High impact execution of strategy and digital transformation, Postgraduate in digital leadership (S-PACE) High impact execution of strategy and digital transformation at Schibsted Media Group
Catalan, Spanish, English, Italian
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Github Skills (17)
executable10
mach-o10
ptrace10
dump10
elf10
linux9
dns6
python6
django6
saas2
windows1
rails1
ruby1
web-application1
gtd1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
whatsbcn/skpd
Jul 2009 - Dec 2021
Process dump to executable ELF for linux
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 12 years 8 months
ptracelinuxelfexecutabledump
whatsbcn/goback
Jul 2008 - Nov 2013
Contributions:59 commits in 5 years 5 months
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