// Head of Software Engineering

Pedro
Díaz.

Engineering leader. Systems thinker. Still hands-on.

I work at the intersection of software, infrastructure, and real-world operations—building dependable systems and the teams behind them.

role

Engineering leadership

focus

Platform · SRE · Cloud

works with

Kubernetes · GCP · Azure · AWS

based in

Valencia, Spain

I like difficult systems
and clear ownership.

My career has grown from QA, DevOps, and SRE into engineering leadership. I stay close to architecture, reliability practices, platform strategy, and the systems that make teams effective at scale.

At Mercadona Tech, I joined during the early rebuild of Mercadona Online and helped establish the cloud-native platform and reliability foundations behind its growth. More recently, I have led the technical coordination of AutoStore robotics integration into warehouse operations.

The work,
in context.

Mercadona Tech · 2017 → now

2023—presentValencia

// current role

Head of Software Engineering

Leading engineering across logistics preparation, SRE, warehouse operations, and e-commerce availability. I set technical direction, develop leaders, and connect platform decisions to reliable, scalable logistics execution.

  • Scope of up to 60+ people across eight product and platform teams.
  • Technical coordination for AutoStore warehouse automation and infrastructure integration.
2021—2023Valencia

Engineering Manager & SRE Lead

Led SRE while rebuilding the Data team into a stronger engineering function, improving technical ownership, operating rhythms, and delivery confidence.

2019—2021Valencia

SRE Lead

Grew the SRE function from a one-person setup into a dedicated team, establishing cloud infrastructure, observability, incident management, and operational readiness for the new online platform.

2017—2019Valencia

Site Reliability Engineer

Built and operated the initial cloud-native production platform for the rebuilt Mercadona Online service—from infrastructure and CI/CD to monitoring, security, and incident response.

Started in quality.
Moved closer to production.

2017

Tieto

Senior Service Operations Engineer · Finland

2012—2017

Kiosked

QA automation → Service Operations / DevOps · Helsinki

2012

Sulake

Trainee · Helsinki

Things I’ve learned
to care about.

01

Engineering leadership

Team growth, technical direction, operating models, cross-functional alignment.

02

Reliability & platform

SRE, observability, incident management, scalability, operational readiness.

03

Cloud infrastructure

Google Cloud, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure automation.

04

Automation & systems

Warehouse operations, AutoStore integration, developer workflows, quality engineering.

Languages

Spanish & Catalan native · English full professional · Finnish elementary

// toolkit
  • Kubernetes
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Observability
  • Incident management
  • Infrastructure automation