Roberto Aguirre Guardia
Engineering & Delivery Manager · Owns delivery end to end · Runs cadences, tracks risk early, coordinates incidents · Uses AI to run a lighter process and knows its limits · Grows autonomous teams · 15+ years
Bogotá, Colombia · Remote aguirrerjg@gmail.com +57 317 675 0419 linkedin.com/in/roberto-javier-aguirre-guardia

Summary

Engineering and delivery manager who owns delivery end to end so the founder can step out of the day to day. Runs lightweight cadences, tracks every active project, and surfaces risk before it becomes a fire. 15+ years leading software delivery in Latin America, and today running AI products in production. A Manager of One who grows Managers of One: led teams of up to 50 with the lowest turnover of the account. Uses AI across planning, summaries and drafts, and knows exactly where not to trust it. Leads through clear writing and good decisions, not status theater. Fluent professional English.

Experience

Head of Engineering & Delivery · North Growth Consulting Oct 2024 · Present
Remote · AI products in production · Anthropic partner program
Delivery & Consulting Manager · NTT DATA Apr 2021 · Oct 2024
Enterprise account (Grupo AVAL) · Financial services
Delivery Lead · VASS Apr 2018 · Apr 2021
Pensions · Digital channels
Delivery Lead · GlobalHitss · Tecnocom 2012 · 2018
Health · Financial · Public sector

Skills

Delivery management: end to end delivery ownership, cadences (planning, standups, retros), project tracking, early risk surfacing, delivery metrics (throughput, cycle time, reliability) used humanely, on time at quality

Incidents & quality: incident coordination and escalation, root cause analysis, holding the quality bar without becoming the bottleneck

Team leadership: 1:1s, coaching, retention (lowest turnover of the account), hiring at a high bar, grows autonomous Managers of One

AI in the process, with limits: builds and runs AI agents (Agent Squad) to optimise process, uses AI for planning, summaries and drafts, knows where not to trust it (verification, human control) · GitHub, Linear, Jira, documentation first

Technical & languages: technically credible (reads plans and PRs), APIs, cloud (Azure), CI/CD · fluent professional English (EN/ES)

Education

Systems Engineering · U. de Lima (Top Third) · MBA + Specialization in Business Strategy and Policy, Tecnológico de Monterrey