Dimas López Zurita

Profile

Software & Engineering Manager (Hands-on) with over a decade of experience on software engineering, deeply involved in architecture and software development. I specialize in transforming engineering organizations through technical leadership, platform modernization, automation, and a strong engineering culture.

My approach combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution. I enjoy solving complex technical challenges, mentoring engineers, improving developer experience, and driving initiatives that increase product quality, operational efficiency, and business impact. Whether leading teams through organizational change, modernizing legacy systems, improving application performance, or establishing engineering standards, I focus on delivering sustainable solutions with measurable results.

I believe the best engineering leaders stay close to both the product and the people. I lead by example, promote ownership and collaboration, and create environments where engineers can grow while delivering reliable, scalable software that makes a real difference for customers.

Employment History

• The Knot Worldwide

  • Engineering Manager (hands-on) & Lead Software Engineer

    Apr 2025 - current

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    Barcelona, Spain (hybrid)
    Hands-on Engineering Manager with a strong platform engineering background who combines technical depth, people leadership, type coding, and product ownership. Experienced leading engineering organizations through periods of change while modernizing platforms, improving performance, driving engineering excellence, mentoring teams, and delivering measurable business outcomes as possible.
    
    The following are some of the highlights, got thanks to my team, during my time as Engineering Manager and Lead Software Engineer:
    
    ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP
    - Successfully led engineering during a period of organizational transition, assuming responsibilities beyond the role without formal direction.
    - Managed and mentored a team of engineers while remaining an active technical contributor.
    - Extended leadership beyond direct reports by mentoring engineers across teams
    - Built trust through a servant leadership approach, staying close to engineering teams and leading by example.
    
    OWNERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT
    - Took ownership of critical engineering operations, tooling, budgets, and day-to-day engineering management during leadership gaps.
    - Helped maintain team engagement and delivery despite challenges, while protecting team performance and retaining engineering focus.
    - Identified, prioritized, and advocated for technical debt as part of engineering planning and OKRs.
    - Proactively drove engineering improvements without waiting for direction.
    
    TEAM IMPACT & TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
    - Modernization of the engineering platform across multiple repositories.
    - Improved security posture and reducing infrastructure footprint (~15% image size reduction).
    - Migration of a legacy to latest engine version, enabling long-term maintainability and reducing dependency risks.
    - Championed engineering standards, CI/CD improvements, and reusable GitHub Actions across repositories.
    - Setup strategy for migrating end-to-end testing from Cypress to a centralized Playwright monorepo.
    - Established secure coding practices and engineering standards through technical leadership.
    
    PRODUCT & PERFORMANCE IMPACT
    - Reduced application page size from ~40 MB to ~9 MB.
    - Reduced network requests from ~145 to ~50.
    - Improved page load time from ~3s to ~1.5s.
    - Reduced homepage payload from ~25 MB to ~3 MB through image optimization.
    - Automated operational workflows through Contentful, eliminating recurring manual BAU tasks.
    - Contributed to infrastructure optimization resulting in approximately important annual cloud savings.
    - Improved application readiness for SEO, SSR, and future AI/LLM initiatives.
    
    DELIVERY
    - Delivered strategic product initiatives.
    - Successfully delivered high-impact projects despite organizational instability and limited engineering capacity.
    - Encouraged teams to validate ideas through proofs of concept before committing to full implementation.
    
    MANAGEMENT & MENTORING
    - Conducted regular 1:1s, coaching, and career mentoring.
    - Mentored engineers outside direct reporting lines.
    - Helped engineers increase ownership, visibility, and technical impact.
    - Balanced people management with hands-on software engineering.
    
    Skills: Engineering Management, Hands-on Engineering Manager, Technical Leadership, Software Architecture, Full Stack Engineering, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience (DevEx), Performance Optimization, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Redis, MySql, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Akamai, Kubernetes, Playwright, Testing Strategy, Engineering Excellence, Technical Debt Management, Staff Engineering, Team Leadership, Mentoring, Cross-functional Leadership, Agile Delivery, Engineering Strategy, Platform Modernization, Security, Observability.
    

  • Lead Software Engineer

    Dec 2023 - Apr 2025

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    Barcelona, Spain (remote)
    Servant Leader supporting my squad and anybody around me.
    Improve productivity by automating the process as much as possible, guiding and driving best practices under a pragmatic mindset.
    
    skills: NextJS, Node, React, AWS, Akamai, Docker, Kubernetes, Cypress, Github, Redis, MySql, CI/CD...
    

• Full Stack Engineer at MySelf

  jun 2021 - current

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  Barcelona, Spain (remote)
  Consultant, Site projects, Learning and Mentoring
  
  skills: Vue2, Vue3(pinia + TS), NuxtJS, NextJS, Jest, Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, NodeJS+TS, Angular, React+TS, Docker, Vite, SockerIO, MongoDB, Redis, ...
  

• Senior Frontend Engineer at BackMarket

  august 2021 - march 2023

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  Barcelona, Spain (remote)
  Helping to deliver quality features, promoting good testing practices and working in performance. Involved in big migration projects for next company challenge.
  
  skills: Vue2, Nuxt, Jest, Testing Library...

• Sabbatical Gap

  february 2020 - august 2021

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  Barcelona, Spain
  Personal break to focus in my mental health, think, study and work on my side projects and open-source. Self-training to improve as a professional and to be ready for the next challenge.

• Engineering Manager (hands-on) & Lead Frontend Engineer at Ubeeqo (Europcar Mobility Group)

  november 2017 - february 2020

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  Barcelona, Spain (office)
  Ubeeqo is one of the products of Europcar Mobility Group. I joined the company as a Frontend developer, I was promoted to be the responsible of all the web applications for Ubeeqo as a Frontend Manager/Lead.
  
  I grew the team from 4 to ~14 Frontend developers, while the company grew from ~15 to ~140 employees just in 2 years in Barcelona HUB.
  
  - Work in cross functional decissions
  - Define the frontend architecture for all web products in the company.
  - Define the UX interactions with layouts and components.
  - Define components library based in Vuejs.
  - Managed the Agile development process from specification to completion.
  - Define the pipeline test.
  - Develop and define e2e implementation.
  - Recruiting frontend and QA team.
  
  skills: vanilla js, vue (v2.x), vuex, sass, nuxt, nightwatch and cypress, jest, webpack, nodejs, babel, rollup, docker, scrum.

• Previous experiences

  2011 - 2015

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  Barcelona, Spain (office)
  I started as a back-end developer working with PHP, hen moved to full-stack development with Node.js and finally focused on front-end development. During these years I was able to solve many problems in different environments and adapting to different technologies.
  
  Worked Trovit, BeRepublic, FocusOnEmotions, Zyncro, Stuart Delivery and Instaply,
  
  Used JS, AngularJS, ReactJS, NodeJS, CSS, Stylus, Grunt, Gulp, Npm, CI, Scrum methodology and SOLID practices, SockerIO, PHP, ...