Summary
Ángel Barato is an engineering manager based in Madrid with 10 years of experience building and leading cross-functional teams at fast-growing product companies like Datadog, Glovo and PayPal. He combines hands-on software engineering with team and process leadership—owning roadmaps, requirements, and technical solutions while mentoring engineers and improving ways of working. His background spans payments and financial services, real-time operations, and web applications, giving him a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable systems under regulatory and stakeholder constraints. A lifelong learner by philosophy, he also advises startups (BooksFlyer) and keeps a playful, experimental side—his GitHub motto hints that he prototypes liberally to resolve uncertainty.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
ERASMUS+ Program, ERASMUS+ Program at Mälardalen University
Telematic Engineering, Information Technology, Telematic Engineering, Information Technology at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish, Bulgarian