Engineering Leader & Technical Co-Founder

Building from
zero —
twice.

20+ years turning early-stage ideas into production systems. I work end to end: shaping product alongside founders, writing the code, owning the infrastructure, and carrying security and compliance instead of handing it off.

📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina Open to remote Ruby on Rails · React · AWS · GCP
20+ Years of experience
2× Founding engineer
20+ Engineers hired & grown
2 Startup Succesfully exited
Experience
Jun 2024 — Present
AceUp
Remote
Engineering Manager
  • Lead a team of 10 engineers across delivery, hiring, technical direction and mentorship.
  • Introduced AI spec-driven development as the team's default workflow, cutting code review turnaround roughly in half.
  • Partnered with product and stakeholders to take 5 major features from definition through launch.
  • Sucessfully migrated the platform to Europe helping to aquire multimillon deals under the most strict GDPR compliance measures
Nov 2020 — Apr 2024
Rocket House
Remote
Fullstack Development Lead
  • Led the design and build of an Order Management System for US alcohol delivery, from architecture through production on Rails, React, AWS and IaC.
  • Improved time-to-market by ~30% working directly with product owners against a shifting regulatory landscape.
  • Integrated multiple warehouse and payment provider APIs, cutting manual processing errors by half.
  • Owned DevOps end to end — deployment pipeline, monitoring, on-call — sustaining 99.9% uptime through order-volume peaks.
Feb 2020 — Nov 2020
Boatyard
Remote
Backend Engineer
  • Migrated a Rails 5 monolithic API to serverless, reducing operational costs ~30% while improving scalability.
  • Maintained the monolith throughout the transition with no degradation to live service.
  • Re-architected data processing on cloud-native primitives, cutting response times ~25%.
Jan 2017 — Jan 2020
Honed Digital
Buenos Aires
Country Manager
  • Ran the Argentine arm of an Australian agency: hired, led and retained a team of 5 engineers.
  • Rebuilt the delivery process across a 13-hour time difference, materially improving on-time completion.
  • Led system architecture on the company's core client platforms. Overhauled DevOps, cutting deployment time ~25%.
Jan 2014 — Jan 2017
Lottosend
Tel Aviv, Israel
Founding Engineer
  • First engineering hire. Built the online lottery platform from nothing to public launch inside a year.
  • Recruited and grew the engineering team to 10, establishing hiring bar, code review culture and release process.
  • Architected production infrastructure for a high-transaction, payments-heavy consumer product; cut release cycle time ~35%.
Mar 2010 — Dec 2013
Evergiving
Remote
Founding Engineer
  • Co-built a SaaS platform for NGO fundraising, replacing paper-based donor acquisition with digital capture.
  • Built the iPad application used by field fundraisers to collect recurring donations on the spot.
  • Recruited and formed the remote engineering team of 10 in Argentina.
Skills & Technologies
Leadership & Product
Engineering management Technical hiring 0→1 product Mentorship Roadmap alignment Cross-timezone teams
Backend & Frontend
Ruby on Rails React PostgreSQL Redis REST API design Serverless
Cloud & Infrastructure
GCP AWS Terraform Docker CI/CD IaC Monitoring & on-call
AI & Security
AI spec-driven dev LangChain LangSmith SOC 2 Secrets management Incident response
Open Source
odsl
A fluent DSL for Ruby service objects

Built to solve the "giant call method" problem in Rails. Odsl turns complex business workflows into a sequence of named, audited, resumable steps — with built-in immutability, background jobs, distributed locking, and a step-level audit log that lets you resume a failed run exactly where it left off.

gem install odsl
GitHub → RubyGems →
v0.3.0 MIT Ruby ≥ 3.2
Writing
Nov 2026
dev.to
SDD, but how? It's easier when it's really "driven"

SDD doesn't fail on the spec — it fails on the handoffs between steps. How I built a driver skill that coordinates the full ship-feature flow end to end, removing the human glue between layers.

Oct 2026
dev.to
ODSL: A Ruby DSL for Service Objects That LLMs Can Actually Understand

Why I built ODSL — and how writing code as a sequence of named, declarative steps turns out to be exactly the format that makes LLM-assisted development click.

Contact

Let's build something from zero.

Open to senior engineering and founding roles — remote, anywhere. Happy to talk about early-stage products, platform architecture, or team building.

alejandro.gurovich@gmail.com