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Darío De Giacomo

Senior Technical Project Manager

I ship complex software on a cadence people can plan around.

13 years in software, 9 of them leading engineering teams. Today I run 3 concurrent projects inside a 60+ person AWS platform engineering group at Deluxe Entertainment.

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Darío De Giacomo

About

I started as a developer, so estimates and technical risk get worked out with the tech leads, not relayed past them.

I spent my first years writing C# and Python tooling for production teams on Microsoft's account at RWS Moravia. That work grew into a permanent function, I proposed the team that would own it, and I was promoted to lead it. Three promotions later I was running the account's Engineering group: 12 people across Argentina and the Czech Republic, a USD 200K annual budget, and the Engineering section of quarterly business reviews presented to Microsoft.

Since 2021 I have been the single point of accountability for scope, schedule and dependencies on a large-scale AWS platform at Deluxe Entertainment, across 5+ groups per project spanning engineering, product, QA, UAT, support and business stakeholders. When I arrived, several teams had no established process. I helped build the ceremonies and the delivery cadence from the ground up and now run them across three of them.

What I am good at is unglamorous: forecasting the blocking point before it reaches the critical path, and telling a VP the uncomfortable version early rather than the comfortable version late.

In software
13 years
Leading teams
9 years
Largest team led
12 people, 2 countries
Budget owned
USD 200K / year
Based in
Santa Fe, Argentina
Languages
Spanish, English C2

Working remotely with US teams since 2021. Authorized to work as an independent contractor for US and EU companies.

Selected work

Four deliveries worth talking about

Client work under NDA, so these are outcomes and approach rather than code.

USD 5M

RWS Moravia
Microsoft account
2017-2018

Estimated loss prevented during a platform migration

A migration was on course to destroy years of accumulated translation memory data. I designed and built the tooling that extracted and restored it. The recovery contributed to securing the account's contract renewal.

  • C# / .NET
  • Data recovery
  • Migration risk

-20%

Deluxe Entertainment
3 teams
Current

Escaped defects, after a code quality rollout

Defined with engineering management, then driven to adoption by me across three teams: expanded pull request review coverage, SonarQube and later AI-assisted review, plus developer-to-QA testing handover notes. Escaped defects dropped by around 20%.

  • SonarQube
  • AI-assisted review
  • Process adoption

2.5 yr

Deluxe Entertainment
60+ person org
Current

Platform rebuild program, finance-domain workstream

One of the lead project managers on a multi-year rebuild of a large-scale cloud platform. I own the finance-domain microservices workstream end to end, from requirements through release, inside a 60+ person engineering organization.

  • AWS
  • Microservices
  • Dependency mapping

100%

RWS Moravia
Microsoft account
2019-2020

Client requests delivered on time, two years running

As Engineering Group Manager on the company's largest account, I led 12 people across two teams split between Argentina and the Czech Republic, owned a USD 200K annual budget, and rolled new delivery workflows out to 100+ production staff across global hubs.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Budget ownership
  • Distributed teams

Skills

What I actually use

Delivery and program

  • Agile and Scrum
  • Release planning
  • Roadmapping
  • Estimation
  • Capacity and resource planning
  • Dependency management
  • Technical risk management
  • Process rollout and adoption
  • Executive reporting
  • Budget ownership

Cloud and engineering

  • AWS current
  • Azure through 2021
  • Python
  • C# / .NET
  • PostgreSQL
  • Regular expressions
  • Git / GitLab
  • CI/CD (TeamCity)
  • SonarQube
  • Linux

Tooling and reporting

  • Jira
  • Azure DevOps
  • Power BI
  • Excel
  • AI-assisted code review
  • AI-assisted delivery workflows

Languages

  • Spanish native
  • English C2

Experience

Developer to group manager, in order

  1. Jul 2021 - Present

    Senior Technical Project Manager

    Scopic Software, contracted full-time to Deluxe Entertainment (United States)

    • Manage 3 concurrent projects inside a 60+ person platform engineering organization building a large-scale cloud platform on AWS, with teams from 5 developers and 1 QA engineer up to 10 developers and 3 QA engineers.
    • Own a fixed 6-week release cycle to production: 3 weeks of development and QA, then 3 weeks of UAT and fixes, with a committed sprint build shipped at each gate.
    • Act as the single point of accountability for scope, schedule and dependencies across 5+ groups per project.
    • Drive estimation, sequencing and resourcing with each team's technical lead, forecasting blocking points before they reach the critical path.
    • Implemented Agile ceremonies and delivery cadence from the ground up for teams that had no established process, and run them across all 3 teams.
    • Report progress, scope changes and technical risk upstream to product and engineering VPs.

  2. Feb 2015 - Jul 2021

    RWS Moravia

    Six years on Microsoft, the company's largest account (USD 32M+ annual revenue). Promoted three times.

    Oct 2018 - Jul 2021

    Engineering Group Manager

    • Led the account's Engineering group: 12 people across Engineering Support and R&D, split between Argentina and the Czech Republic, reporting to the account Program Director.
    • Delivered 100% of client requests on time across 2019 and 2020, on a USD 200K annual budget covering salaries, licenses, hardware and travel.
    • Prepared and presented the Engineering section of quarterly business reviews to account leadership and to Microsoft.
    • Ran bi-weekly 1:1s and quarterly reviews against S.M.A.R.T. goals, and shaped individual career paths.

    Oct 2017 - Sept 2018

    Technical Lead

    • Prevented an estimated USD 5M loss for Microsoft during a platform migration by designing and building the tooling that extracted and restored translation memory data at risk of destruction.
    • Managed 3 engineers building internal .NET tooling and supporting 100+ production staff across global hubs.
    • Owned solution delivery, workflow definition and business analysis for account-wide process improvements.

    Feb 2015 - Sept 2017

    Software Developer, Semi-Senior

    • Built C# and Python tooling that automated manual workflows and file handling (XML, JSON, XLIFF) for production teams, version controlled in GitLab and deployed through TeamCity.
    • Grew this work from ad-hoc scripting into a permanent function, proposed the dedicated 3-person team created to own it, and was promoted to lead it.

  3. Jun 2013 - Jan 2015

    Software Developer

    ELEPE Servicios

    • Designed, built and maintained custom modules for OpenERP/Odoo 6.1 and 7.0 in Python, with PostgreSQL 9.2 and XML/XSL/HTML for the web layer.
    • Handled deployment and operations for on-premise Linux servers: configuration, application deployment, live service management and monitoring.

  4. 2010 - 2013

    Analista en Sistemas

    Three-year technical degree in systems analysis. Instituto Politécnico Superior "General San Martín", Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.

Contact

Open to remote roles with US and EU teams

If you are hiring for delivery leadership on a platform with real technical complexity, write to me. Tell me the size of the org, the shape of the problem, and what has been slipping.

Location
Santa Fe, Argentina - remote, GMT-3
Status
Authorized to work as an independent contractor for US and EU companies
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