Juan A. Galan

Chief Technology Officer

2020 - Current

Antler Venture Partner

2021

Coaching founders that build companies with Antler (antler.co) - the global early-stage venture capital firm enabling and investing in the world's most exceptional people building the defining companies of tomorrow. With offices across six continents and most major startup ecosystems, Antler is enabling founders and investing in the top 1% of more than 50,000 entrepreneurs and ideas evaluated every year.

Senior Tech Advisor

2022

Head of Engineering

2020 - 2020

CTO

2017 - 2020

Project CTO

2014 - 2017

Web Director

2013 - 2014

At Smartbox I lead a growing team responsible for the company's e-commerce platform, composed by 15 in-house people and an offshore team. Implementing Agile methodologies and coaching the team in their way to maturity and self-organization, using development best practices (TDD/BDD, code review, Continuous Integration, ...).

CTO

2012 - 2013

As the CTO, I have: - Established an Agile IT team that helps the company follow the Lean startup principles by being fast and highly flexible. - Introduced TDD and BDD in the development cycle, as a way to improve the quality of the platform and to increase development efficiency. − Led the architecture of the platform, both on the software and the hardware side. Transitioning from a monolithic application based in Magento to a service oriented architecture with different services and a common API. − Helped establishing the tools to provide a set of useful business metrics that drive business decisions. Besides Google Analytics we also use Kissmetrics. − Actively participated in taking daily business decisions. − Participated in the Board of Directors to give updates on technology and explain architectural decisions and planning to the directors and investors.

CTO and Lead Developer

2010 - 2012

- Spearheaded the formation and management of a software engineering team, implementing a swift and flexible development process founded on agile methodologies and employing tools like Jira and Git. - Initiated release management and server monitoring protocols. - Orchestrated and guided the software and hardware-based development of the platform. Instituted a real-time stock control mechanism to regulate the inventory of the company's 4 warehouses worldwide. - Successfully integrated a new PSP that supports the majority of the store's local currencies. - Optimized the hardware infrastructure by migrating part of it to the cloud, thereby reducing costs and enhancing scalability. - Boosted platform performance, resulting in increased conversion rates and elevated productivity for the company.

PHP developer

2010 - 2010

Maintenance of an e-commerce platform, based on Magento.

Senior PHP Developer

2009 - 2010

Development of new software and maintenance of the existing solutions, using PHP and MYSQL. Integrated in a team of four developers, creation of a base system to create virtual communities and creation of a professional community based on it. My main responsibilities were define the application architecture and develop some of the functionalities, I also participated in some front-end aspects using css and JavaScript. Both applications were developed using Zend Framework 1.9, Doctrine 1.2, MySQL and jQuery. Maintenance an development of new functionalities for a web-based property management software, developed with PHP, MySQL and jQuery.