Summary
Albert 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.
18 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 School
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Postgraduate 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