Summary
Diego Martin-serrano is a seasoned technology leader and civil servant with 15 years of experience driving digital transformation across Spanish national ministries and startups. Currently Head of Area at the Ministry of Education, he manages cross-cutting services—from payroll and teaching-staff management to educational statistics—and leads a hybrid team of career civil servants and external specialists. His background blends hands-on engineering (mobile apps, cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform) with security and compliance expertise, having built a SOC and led National Security Scheme certification efforts. Diego has scaled cloud migrations and governance for public agencies, advised startups as interim CTO, and led R&D-heavy engineering teams focused on employee wellbeing products. Comfortable moving between policy, procurement and code, he is particularly adept at translating regulatory and operational constraints into pragmatic, auditable technical solutions. Based in London with Spanish public-sector roots, he brings a rare combination of government-grade process rigor and startup-speed delivery.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science and Engineering at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Training programme in Systems and Information Technologies for Public Administration, Training programme in Systems and Information Technologies for Public Administration at Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública - INAP
Exchange programme in Kortrijk Belgium, Exchange programme in Kortrijk Belgium at VIVES University of Applied Sciences
Spanish, English, French