Summary
Álvaro Hurtado is a seasoned Drupal specialist and backend people lead with 12 years of experience building and guiding web engineering teams from Cáceres, Spain. He combines deep hands-on expertise in custom Drupal modules, migrations, and theming with leadership experience as Backend People Lead at Factorial, where he focuses on helping teammates achieve their goals. His career spans technical leadership roles including CTO duties at startups and coordinating Drupal teams to improve development workflows, quality systems and architecture. Comfortable balancing day-to-day coding with team management, he brings a pragmatic, continual-improvement mindset honed across agencies and product companies. An educator early in his career, he still leverages that teaching instinct to mentor engineers and communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero en Informática, Ingeniería de software, Ingeniero en Informática, Ingeniería de software at Universidad de Extremadura
Experto en consultoría, Consultoría, Experto en consultoría, Consultoría at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish