About
Hi! I'm Patrick, a Software Engineer & Team Lead based in Madrid.
My path to engineering wasn't typical. I started with an engineering degree, then spent over a decade leading operations and education teams — at one point managing 150 staff across recruitment, training, and international programs. In 2016 I started teaching myself to code, initially building websites for clients, then transitioning fully into software engineering.
Now I lead a fintech team at Mews, a $2.5B hospitality platform, where we build payment products processing €8.6B+ annually. I work mainly with React and TypeScript.
Outside of work, you'll find me with my wife, Simba the cat, and Nacho the dog — who has a lot to say about my career if you ask him.
Experience
2025 — PRESENT $2.5B hospitality fintech platform processing €8.6B+ in payments annually.
- ▹Lead the Financial Services squad, building embedded banking products for the hospitality industry
- ▹Implemented multicurrency payments feature generating €1.6M revenue in first year
- ▹Developing embedded banking features that automate invoice-to-payment reconciliation for hospitality businesses.
- React
- TypeScript
- Styled Components
- Design Systems
- React Query
2024 — 2025 Global headhunting tech startup trusted by 20,000+ professionals across 95 countries.
- ▹Part of a 5-person engineering team owning the entire stack: Next.js frontend, Node.js backend, and React Native mobile app.
- ▹Led development of a mentoring platform that hit 1,000 signups on launch day
- ▹Improved membership application flow, increasing paid conversions by 17%.
- React
- React Native
- TypeScript
- NextJS
- Tailwind CSS
- NodeJS
- MySQL
2012 — 2023 Education group running language schools and international programs across Spain.
- ▹Managed recruitment, training, and operations for 150 staff annually, achieving 50% retention in a volatile market
- ▹Built a recruitment website and redesigned the hiring process, increasing applicants by 300% in the first year
- ▹Promoted through multiple roles over 11 years, from teacher to director
- Leadership
- Recruitment
- Project Management
- WordPress
2016 — Present Building websites for coaches and small businesses.
- ▹Ingehol.com: 4x client growth and 143% increase in calls within six months
- ▹Thetranslationpros.com: 140% traffic boost within six months of launch
- Design
- PHP
- WordPress
- Maintenance
Projects
Eat Thirty Plants
Mobile app helping users track weekly plant intake for gut health. 300+ users · 5/5 App Store rating · Available on iOS & Android. Used internally by a US company as part of their staff wellness program.
- React Native
- Expo
- Supabase
- TanStack Query
- Gluestack UI
Nowly
Task management app that separates when you'll work on tasks from when they're due.
- Next.js 16
- TypeScript
- Supabase
- TanStack Query
- Zustand
- shadcn/ui
- Tailwind CSS
