Carlos Carrero is a pragmatic, cross-functional data and engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling data platforms and product engineering teams across retail, SaaS, and supply-chain domains. Currently Head of Data Engineering in Amsterdam, he has led large multi-squad organisations (30+ people) to deliver data products, migrations to Snowflake, event-driven integrations, and analytics/ML tooling that unlocked six-figure ARR opportunities and measurable business impact. Carlos blends hands-on architecture with people-first leadership—designing career frameworks, mentorship programs, and communities of practice for quality and data visualization to raise engineering craft and alignment. He repeatedly translates complex supply-chain and content problems into pragmatic data architectures and migration strategies, and has a track record of shipping high-throughput systems from startups to Nike. Colleagues describe him as a strong communicator who fosters cross-functional collaboration while keeping delivery tightly coupled to business KPIs.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Systems Engineering at Universidad Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 16 PRs in 11 months
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