Octavio Garbarino

Engineering Manager / Tech Lead / Product-minded architect

octavio.garbarino@noroof.dev
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/octavio-garbarino-betervide
Uruguay, UTC−3

Engineering Leader with over 12 years of experience leading cross-functional teams, scaling frontend and backend operations, and driving product development. Proven track record managing 30+ developers, designing career progression frameworks, conducting recruitment pipelines, and interfacing directly with international C-level stakeholders (US, UK, Europe).

Experience

2024–now
Tech LeadHalo Media
As a Technical Lead, I lead 2 different full-stack (Angular, Nestjs, AWS and MongoDB) teams having several responsibilities impacting on both the project and the team.
2021–2024
Engineering Manager and Tech LeadEndava
I hold two main roles - Engineering Manager focused on people working in JavaScript technologies, and Technical Leader for various commercial projects.
2024–2026
Board Member & Head of Technology (Volunteer)Club Deportivo Albatros
- Business & Growth Strategy: Transformed the club’s financial sustainability by building its Business Model Canvas, leading commercial outreach to secure new corporate sponsors, and directing a university-led communication assessment to modernize fan engagement.
- Digital Product Engineering: Built and deployed a custom PWA to digitize youth team operations, replacing manual processes with real-time attendance tracking, player growth metrics, and integrated external game statistics.
- Content & Web Modernization: Architected and migrated the club’s main portal to Next.js integrated with a headless CMS, empowering non-technical staff to publish news independently and boosting web performance.
6 months
ProfessorORT University
Technology professor of Applications Design, giving practical lessons about Angular, dotnet core, Rest API and Client-Server architecture.
2 years
Co-founderCoolturus
I started Coolturus as an entrepreneur, launching a dedicated application for cultural activities advertisement. It was the first application of its kind in the market at that time and received very positive feedback from different customer segments.
2018–2021
Software Developer and Community LeadEndava
Team player Software Developer using agile methodologies and being frontend technical lead. Member and leader of IoT and Javascript communities where investigation and learning tasks are done in order to develop new and better services in the company.
6 months
CTOMatea Social
As the Technical Director at Matea Social, I was responsible for defining company strategies and overseeing the following daily tasks: Coordination of a web development bootcamp, technical leadership of 3 different projects and participation in the technical pre-sales process.
2014–2018
Fullstack DeveloperMagenta Innova
Team player as Full Stack Software Developer working for different projects. Last year being technical specialist and reference in both backend and frontend development. We used Agile methodologies, mostly SCRUM, and frequently I played the role of scrum master.

Skills

Leadership & Management: Department Leadership (30+ Devs), Career Paths, Performance Reviews, Hiring Pipelines, Remote Culture, Conflict Resolution.
Software Engineering: Full-Stack Web Architecture, Next.js, React, Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, REST/GraphQL APIs, AWS, Firebase, Supabase, Microservices, Performance.
Product & Strategy: Stakeholder Management, Lean Startup Methodology, UX/UI Fundamentals (Design Thinking), Business Model Canvas.
AI & Emerging Tech: Anthropic Claude API, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agentic Workflows, LangChain / LangGraph, AI-assisted tooling.

Talks

Soft Skills and their influence on your careerCIbSE 2023
“Pointers”, value and reference; how does Javascript work?Montevideo JavaScript Meetup
Angular to React: lessons learned along the way
UX 101: Don't make them thinkMeetup organized by Endava
Business Model Canvas tourEndava, internal workshop
Docker for devs 101
Web to mobile developer
Alphabetical (Game)