Antonio Gallego

I have 30+ years of experience in different technical and sales roles, mainly IT Consulting and Web/Mobile Application Development, specialized in social aggregation tools, data analytics, gamification and learning systems.

I started my career working as systems engineer for Lambda, a JD Edwards business partner. Afterwars I worked for telco companies, as team developer and project manager. Afterwards I played different roles as CIO and CTO in startup companies. Then I joined IBM to work a long period as IT Consultant and Subject Matter Expert, working for the main companies in Spain.

Then I moved to Compass, where I learned how IT Benchmarking and IT Strategy is well cooked. A new professional experience was brought to me by EMC, where I worked as solution principal for complex projects, covering a vast region from Spain to Southafrica and Middle East. After travelling two years, I returned to Spain and I tested myself in sales as Client Solution Director during 3 years. In the last three years, I worked again for IBM as Senior IT Consultant and played a role in cloud consulting for EMEA South region and

Then I started to work deeply in cloud native, starting by a first role as Sr Field Engineer at Pivotal, working with cloud native apps and cloud platforms and also during 3 years at Red Hat, as OpenShift specialist and leading the specialists team for EMEA region.

Then, during 5 years I worked at VMware, leading the team of Tanzu Emerging Solutions Engineers (ESE Team) in EMEA region.

During the second half of 2024, I worked for Canonical as Telco Advisor and Senior Engineer for the Canonical Kubernetes Engineering team.

Now I am part of the AI Solutions Engineering team at Cisco, working for Telcos, Service Providers and Neoclouds, defining/architecting end-to-end solutions like AI Factories and all sort of AI use cases.

I have also developed a number of freelance projects, mainly in genAI, mobile and social aggregation areas of expertise. Therefore I am also skilled in web backend/frontend systems, generative AI, UX design and gaming.