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Jesús Ramírez Ramos

Engineering Manager · Tech Lead

Open to strategic leadership opportunities (Principal, EM, or VP roles).

I build and scale high-performing engineering organizations. Over the last decade at Volkswagen Group, I grew the NADIN department from 3 to 25 engineers, shipping software used by importers in 118 countries. AWS Certified Solutions Architect & SAFe, combining strategic vision with hands-on expertise in Java/Spring, AWS, and Android.

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Experience

Senior Software Engineering Manager

09/2020 – Present

Volkswagen Group Services · Remote (Madrid)

  • Founded the NADIN engineering department and scaled it from 3 to 25 engineers across 3 squads, inside a 70-engineer SAFe Agile Release Train spanning Barcelona, Wolfsburg, Salzburg and Iași.
  • Delivered NADIN — the Group's order management, logistics, finance and invoicing platform — to importers in 118 countries, on a quarterly Program Increment cadence.
  • Led the migration of NADIN from on-prem Oracle / Tomcat to AWS (RDS + EC2), cutting infrastructure spend by ~€400k per year while improving scalability and availability.
  • Owned technical hiring, estimation, tribe organisation and stakeholder alignment with the German product organisation.

Officer — NADIN Migrations & Rollouts

07/2017 – Present

Volkswagen Group Services · Concurrent role

  • Led 11 country rollouts of NADIN (Canary Islands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Finland, Australia, Sweden, Korea, Mexico, India, Japan, Middle East) — on-site workshops, importer training and structured feedback loops back to the dev team.

Project IT Leader

09/2016 – 07/2017

Volkswagen UK

  • Led the regulatory WLTP software-update programme against a fixed EU emissions deadline, coordinating changes across 5 platforms — dealer management, vehicle enrolment, taxes, logistics and factory-interface systems.

Software Engineer

03/2016 – 09/2016

Volkswagen UK, Italy and Spain

  • Owned the end-to-end bug lifecycle across 3 markets — reproduction, fix, validation, service-pack rollout and production deployment — on Java / IBM RAD / WebSphere, tracked in HP ALM.

Earlier: Android Research Intern, MAPIR Robotics — University of Málaga (2015) · System Administrator, Axarnet, Málaga (2009–2010).

Selected Side Projects

Things I build outside work — production SaaS, public-interest tools, and a habit of reverse-engineering closed APIs.

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Kadenza

2026

Production SaaS connecting Bitbucket / GitHub + Jira + HR systems, surfacing engineering-cadence metrics across the org.

  • SaaS
  • Integrations

kadenza.eu ↗

Owlet Watch

2026

Reverse-engineered the Owlet baby-monitor API and published a Wear OS app to read live vitals from the wrist.

  • Wear OS
  • Reverse-engineered

Play Store ↗

FermaxWear

2026

Reverse-engineered the Fermax intercom API and published a Wear OS app to answer the door buzzer from a watch.

  • Wear OS
  • Reverse-engineered

Play Store ↗

PixelBuds for macOS

2026

Native macOS menu-bar app to control Google Pixel Buds Pro over Bluetooth — battery, noise modes, EQ and "find my buds" — built on the reverse-engineered Maestro/Pigweed RPC protocol in Swift.

  • Swift
  • macOS
  • Reverse-engineered

GitHub ↗

Qingping Menu Bar

2026

macOS menu-bar app for Qingping air monitors — live CO₂, PM2.5/PM10, temperature and humidity with colour-coded sparklines, over local Bluetooth or the cloud API. Swift.

  • Swift
  • macOS
  • Bluetooth

GitHub ↗

Hipee Posture for macOS

2026

macOS menu-bar app that reads Hipee BLE posture sensors and alerts you when you slouch — real-time angle monitoring, calibration and overlay nudges, fully local with no cloud. SwiftUI + CoreBluetooth.

  • SwiftUI
  • macOS
  • Bluetooth

GitHub ↗

DestinosAGE

2026

Tool for Spanish civil-service candidates to choose between job postings: upload the official vacancy PDF and it parses, geocodes, scores and compares 8,000+ posts by preference, exporting a priority list to Excel. Python / Streamlit, 664 tests.

  • Python
  • Streamlit

Live ↗ GitHub ↗

Skills & Certifications

Languages

Java · Python · JavaScript · TypeScript

Frameworks

Spring · Hibernate · Node.js · Angular · K6 · TensorFlow

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM) · Docker · Jenkins · Bamboo · Maven · Git

Databases

PostgreSQL · Oracle · MongoDB · SQLite · H2

Practices

SAFe · Agile · Scrum · Technical Hiring · Cross-site Team Leadership

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect (2020) · SAFe ARTE (renewed 2024)

Education

Languages: Spanish (native) · English (Cambridge FCE, 2015) · German (A2)

FAQ

What roles is Jesús looking for?

Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, and senior platform/cloud leadership roles. He has run multi-squad organisations and is equally comfortable owning delivery, hiring and technical direction.

How large a team has he managed?

He founded the NADIN engineering department at Volkswagen Group and scaled it from 3 to 25 engineers across 3 squads, operating inside a 70-engineer SAFe Agile Release Train spanning Spain, Germany, Austria and Romania.

Is he hands-on technical or purely management?

Both. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and still ships code — recent side projects span Java/Spring, AWS, Python/Streamlit and native macOS and Wear OS apps, several built by reverse-engineering closed device APIs.

Does he have production cloud and AWS experience?

Yes. He led the migration of NADIN from on-prem Oracle/Tomcat to AWS (RDS + EC2), cutting infrastructure spend by roughly €400k per year while improving scalability and availability, and holds the AWS Certified Solutions Architect credential.

Where is he based and how does he work?

He is based in Madrid, Spain and works remotely. He has a decade of experience leading distributed teams and running on-site rollouts across Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

What languages does he speak?

Spanish (native), English (Cambridge FCE) and German (A2).