Summary
José Carabias is a Process Improvement and OpEx manager with over 15 years in the ICT industry, currently leading Lean Six Sigma and operational excellence programs at GMV’s main HQ. He combines deep ALM/SDLC expertise and hands-on Agile practice—Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Scrum of Scrums—to deliver multinational projects across finance, public sector and multilateral organizations while keeping portfolios between €500K–1M on track. Known as a facilitative, diplomatic servant leader, he builds high-performance, T-shaped teams (12–22 members), drives cultural change, and coaches organizations through Agile adoption and capability building. His background spans roles from software developer and business analyst to offshore and department manager, giving him rare end-to-end visibility from code to C-suite. Trained as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and certified in CMMI/Agile methods at Carnegie Mellon, he pairs rigorous process control with pragmatic open-standards and FOSS-minded solutions. An oft-overlooked strength is his research grounding in computational linguistics, which informs a data-driven approach to KPI design and performance analytics.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Seville
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Agile methods with CMMI, Agile methods with CMMI at Carnegie Mellon University
Professional Web Design, Usability, Information Architecture and Standards, Professional Web Design, Usability, Information Architecture and Standards at Universidad de Murcia
Spanish, English