Adrian Hernandez Mendez
Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager with a strong focus on building and scaling high-performing teams to deliver impactful AI-driven products. With a background in Systems Biology and academia, I bring rigorous critical thinking, strategic execution, and hands-on mentoring to lead teams through complex, fast-evolving environments such as AI product development. I foster cultures of innovation and engineering excellence, enabling teams to collaborate effectively and consistently deliver high-quality software solutions.
Work Experience
SAP LeanIX
over 7 years
Engineering Manager
Jan 2023 - Present | about 3 years
- Leadership and Team Management
- Leadership in guiding and managing a team of engineers, HR responsibilities including hiring, interviewing, and mentoring new hires, balancing team efficiency with individual contributions, running day-to-day team operations, coordinating issues and daily activities within the team, fostering a collaborative team culture with a focus on accountability, developing leadership and management skills, and building and maintaining credibility within the team.
- Technical and Architectural Expertise
- Tracking team efficiency and the quality of deliverables, identifying and addressing strategic technical debt, participating in team-level architectural decisions, possessing expert knowledge in microservices, Kubernetes, AI feature development, and data visualizations, strong component-level architectural skills, and strong problem-solving skills.
- Customer-Centric Approach
- Promoting a customer-first mindset within the team and collaborating closely with the Product Manager (PM) on building new features.
Tech Lead
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022 | about 1 year
Senior Software Engineer
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021 | about 3 years
Research Associate | sebis | Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Nov 2014 - Sep 2018 | almost 4 years
Research Assistant | CEBIO | Universidad Technológica de La Habana (CUJAE)
Sep 2010 - Sep 2014 | about 4 years
Software Engineer | InfoAsset AG
Oct 2012 - Aug 2013 | 10 months
Education
TUM Graduate School | Technical University of Munich
2014 - 2019
Master of Science in Applied Informatics | Universidad Technológica de La Habana (CUJAE)
2012 - 2014
Biomedical Engineer | Universidad Technológica de La Habana (CUJAE)
2004 - 2010
Social Links
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adrianhdezmLanguages
- Spanish
- Native / Bilingual Proficiency
- English
- Working Proficiency
- German
- Elementary Proficiency