Summary
Marçal Serrate is a data technology leader with 14 years of experience building large-scale, real-time analytics and ML platforms across Europe, now directing Data Technology at Azerion. He has led distributed teams and cloud transformations at AXA and architected high-throughput systems processing hundreds of millions to tens of billions of daily events for adtech and retail personalization. Skilled in Big Data, streaming architectures (Kafka, Storm), Spark, and production ML, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic product impact—fraud detection, claims automation and IoT-driven customer experiences among his delivered use cases. As former CTO at Hybrid Theory and Head of Data Engineering at AXA, he’s repeatedly moved organizations from proof-of-concept to production at scale. Based in Barcelona, he combines enterprise-grade governance (CI/CD, Kubernetes) with a startup mindset for rapid experimentation. A frequent conference speaker, he brings deep distributed-systems intuition that helps teams squeeze latency and cost out of massive data pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)