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Diego Souto Catoira

Diego Souto Catoira

Program Manager. Head of Technology Strategy & Partnerships at Altia

Arteixo, A Coruña, ES, 15141
+34 654598409
Spanish, English

Background


About

About

Experienced Program Manager at Altia with a proven track record in diverse projects including consulting, software development, system implementation, and support-maintenance. Currently, I focus on advising, pre-sales, and developing value propositions. I actively contribute to internal company improvement processes, spanning quality, technology, and strategy. I also collaborate transversally within Altia Group's Global Risks Unit and serve as Head of Technology Strategy and Partnerships within Altia's Technology Directorate. My past transversal roles include corporate tools, training management, and process improvement. I am committed to continuous learning and strive to instill values of professionalism, responsibility, and dedication to excellence in my teams.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Technology Strategy and Partnerships ManagerAltia

    Jan, 2023 - Present

    • Member of the Global Risks Unit
    • Member of Innovation Laboratory Committee
    • Technology observatory and definition of the company's technology strategy
    • Management of partner relationships
    • Establishment of corporate architecture and development guidelines
    • Leadership of internal product evaluation team
    • Updating more than 10 tech radars for internal dissemination and decision-making

    • Defining the company's technology strategy: training, certifications, innovation, alliances, ...

    • Managing relationships with more than 90 technology partners

    • Establishing corporate architecture and development guidelines

    • Establishing global risk mitigation strategies linked to technology

    • More than 5 product evaluations per year

    • Updating and maintaining the solutions catalog

    • Leadering some internal innovative projects

  • Training ManagerAltia

    Jan, 2012 - Jan, 20175 years

    • Coordination of global training activities for the company
    • Collaboration in defining strategic training guidelines
    • Coordinated more than 150 training activities per year

    • Defined strategic training guidelines aligned with company objectives

    • Implemented a corporate training platform

  • Project and Program ManagerAltia

    Jan, 2006 - Present

    • Management of development and maintenance projects, primarily in Java technologies
    • Management of system integration projects
    • Management of consulting projects
    • Management of solution implementation projects
    • Leadership of innovation projects
    • Collaboration in the evolution of the corporate process model
    • Collaboration in the implementation and certification of quality models
    • Managed more than 20 projects throughout their entire lifecycle

    • Managed some big projects (>€1M)

    • Led teams of up to 15 members

    • Achieved great customer satisfaction rate

    • Developed business with customers in a win-win approach

  • Analyst-Developer, Consultant, Altia

    Jan, 2004 - Jan, 20062 years

    Development and maintenance projects for J2EE technology applications. Strategic systems and security consulting

    • Full stack development in Java with Hibernate, Spring, Struts, JSTL, ...

    • Made software to last; some systems active for more than 15 years

  • Project ManagerGIGG & La Milagrosa Gerontological Center

    Jan, 2003 - Jan, 20041 year

    • Led maintenance project for the Galician Social Inclusion Plan management system
    • Collaborated in R&D&i projects
    • Led development project for gerontological clinical record management
    • Satisfied of making software for helping vulnerable people

  • Analyst-Programmer, Level Telecom

    Jan, 1999 - Jan, 20001 year

    Consulting for ERP implementation in the textile sector

    • Development of EDI integration components
    • Web maintenance
    • Learned a lot about business processes and software projects, even in a short time

  • Programmer. Systems TechnicianA Coruña University

    Jan, 1998 - Jan, 20024 years

    • Intern at the University's Computing Center and IT department:
    • Server installation and configuration
    • Web maintenance
Projects Experience

Projects Experience

Skills

Skills

  • TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • Kubernetes

    Kubeadm

    Helm

    Harbor

    Prometheus

    MetalLB

    Bare-Metal

  • Linux

    Debian/Ubuntu

    Bash Scripting

    Services

    SysAdmin

  • LLMs

    OpenAI API

    RAG

    Langgraph

    LiteLLM

    Langfuse

    Inference Runtimes

    Prompt Engineering

    Qdrant

  • IoT

    Smart City Platform

    Mashups

    OpenData

    GIS

    IoT Gateways/Nodes

  • EAI-SOA

    ESB

    Message Brokers

    API Management

    Microservices

    Event-Driven Architecture

  • Backend Development

    Java

    Hibernate

    Spring/Spring Boot

    Maven

    JPA

    Node.js

    Express.js

    Python

    FastAPI

  • Frontend Development

    HTML

    CSS

    Javascript

    JSP/Servlets/JSTL

    Struts

  • Smart Cards

    PC/SC

    APDUs

    PKI

  • Project management & DevOps

    Redmine

    JIRA

    Microsoft Project

    Jenkins

    Sonarqube

    ArgoCD

    Nexus Repository

    Dependency-track

    Git

    SVN

  • SOFT SKILLS
  • Organization

    Prioritized planning

    Team management

  • Communication

    Assessment

    Assertive listening

    Power selling

    Negotiation

    Teaching skills

  • Leadership

    Motivation. Passion

    Example setting

    Consensus building

    Decision making

    Hiring & Performance Reviews

    Mentoring

  • Project management

    PMP

    SCRUM

    ITIL

    CMMI

    Product Manager

    Roadmap Planning & Delivery

  • Proactivity

    Proactive planning

    Anticipating needs

    Taking initiative

    Risk management

  • Continuous Improvement

    PDCA

    Lean

    Teamplating

    Process Industrialization

    Automation

  • Customer Orientation

    Empathy

    Customer needs assessment

    Business development

    User experience

    Service design

    SLA management

  • Team Player

    Altruism

    Collaboration

    Adaptability

  • Continuous Learning

    Self-directed learning

    Adaptability

    Curiosity

    Perseverance

    Growth mindset

Education

Education

  • Computer Engineering, Engineer, University of A Coruña

    Oct, 2000 - Jun, 2003

  • Technical Computer Engineering in Management, Technical Engineer, University of A Coruña

    Oct, 1996 - Jun, 1999

Certificates

Certificates

Interests

Interests

  • Travel

    BackpackingNature explorationPhotography
  • LLMs

    AI Agentic CodingOSS ModelsAgentic ArchitecturesGraphRAG
  • Domotics. Home Automation

    OpenhabESP32Z-WaveSBCsRaspberry PiShinobi CCTVMqttwarnAlarmServer
  • Homelabs

    KubernetesHelmSelf-hosted OSSProxmoxCalibre-webNavidrome
  • IaC. CI/CD. Automation

    DockerAnsibleTerraformJenkinsSonarqubeAirflowArgoCD