José Leiva
Sr. SDM at Amazon
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Leiva is a seasoned software leader with 12+ years building and scaling engineering teams and data-intensive systems, currently a Senior SDM at Amazon leading Books and previously heading Kindle Marketing Tech in Madrid. He started coding as a child, earned a Computer Science degree from UPM, and advanced from hands-on SDE roles to technical lead, manager, and leader of leaders, hiring and mentoring talent at scale. As a former CTO and founder, he has experience taking products from concept to production—processing millions of events per day—and excels at assembling high-performance teams across startups and large enterprises. A passionate recruiter and Bar Raiser, he’s conducted over a thousand interviews and helped cultivate interviewers and leaders inside Amazon. Colleagues describe him as a patient, growth-focused coach who finds special satisfaction in nurturing promotions and career milestones. Outside work he balances leadership with early-morning runs, meditation at sunrise, Aikido and family-first Fridays on the couch.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Educación general básica, Educación general básica at Colegio Divino MestroMaster's degree, UX, Master's degree, UX at LA NAVE NODRIZAMBA, Administración y gestión de empresas, MBA, Administración y gestión de empresas at IE Business SchoolEngineer, Software and Computer Science, Engineer, Software and Computer Science at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, German
Github Skills (5)
bootstrap5
django5
python4
dropdown4
postgresql3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jleivaizq/djorm-ext-pgtrgm
Oct 2013 - Oct 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years
pythonaddonsdjangocomparisondjango-application
jleivaizq/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:24 pushes in 9 years 6 months
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