Albert de Reina

Albert de Reina has extensive work experience in the technology industry. Albert is currently working as a Principal Engineer at Simplr | Life-as-a-Service since September 2020. Prior to this, they worked at Strands, where they held various positions. From September 2015 to May 2020, they were the CTO and was responsible for leading the architecture of the Strands suite of products. Albert managed different departments such as Product Engineering, Architecture, IT, QA, and Compliance. As the Principal Architect, they introduced new technologies to fulfill business needs. From October 2013 to September 2015, Albert served as the Director of Technology for the Strands Finance business unit. During this time, they managed the Engineering team and implemented various improvements to increase overall team quality and productivity. Albert also standardized the usage of a continuous integration tool across the company. Albert was previously the Tech Director at Strands, where they led the development of the Strands PFM product and major customer implementations. Albert coordinated engineering activities for product and client implementations and worked with clients such as BBVA, ING, BMO, and Barclays, among others. Before that, they were a Tech Lead and Software Engineer at Strands, where they played a key role in the development of the Strands PFM product and contributed to various projects in the Strands Social Media section.

Albert de Reina started their education in 1999 when they attended IES School. Albert completed a level course in Telecommunication and Computing from 1999 to 2001. After that, they went on to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from 2001 to 2005.