Leading engineering teams & AI adoption

Francisco Javier
García Hurtado

Engineering Leader · People Manager · AI Engineering

I lead and grow engineering teams that build enterprise insurance software for the Lloyd's market, and I'm bringing AI agents and LLM tooling into how those teams work.

People Management Release & Delivery C# / .NET AI Agents & LLMs
engineer_profile.cs
namespace EngineerProfile
{
  public class EngineeringLeader
  {
    public string Name =>
      "Francisco Javier García Hurtado";
    public string Role => "Team Lead";
    public string Company => "Verisk";
    public string Location => "Málaga, Spain";

    public string[] Focus => new[] {
      "People Management",
      "Continuous Delivery",
      "AI Agents & LLMs"
    };

    public string[] CoreStack => new[] {
      "C#", ".NET", "REST APIs",
      "SQL Server", "AWS"
    };

    public string Domain =>
      "London Insurance Market (Lloyd's)";
  }
}
19+
Years Total Industry Experience
14+
Years @ Sequel (now Verisk)
11+
Years Leading Engineering Teams
3x
Faster Deployments (Continuous Delivery)

Professional Summary

Building teams that deliver, in a demanding insurance market, with AI as a force multiplier.

Leader and Engineer


I’m an engineering leader and people manager with deep expertise in the .NET world. I build teams where people grow, collaborate well and ship enterprise software that lasts.

With 14+ years at Sequel (now Verisk) building insurance software for the Lloyd’s market in London and international markets, I have taken web services, MVC applications and core insurance components from design to production. Today I manage Continuous Delivery for my product, with 3x faster deployments and fewer deployment issues.

My AI background goes back to my research years at the Universidad de Málaga: semantic-web recommendation systems on the European DEDALO project, plus a Master in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Today I apply it hands-on, building AI agents, multi-agent systems and LLM-powered tooling.

Leadership & Delivery

People management, Continuous Delivery and Lean Six Sigma.

Insurance Domain

14+ years in London market insurance: placing, broking, underwriting and claims.

AI & Research Background

Semantic-web recommendation research (DEDALO) and a Master in SE & AI.

Engineering

C# / .NET, REST APIs, SQL Server and AWS.

Beyond the Code

I believe that great engineering stems from curiosity, balance, and hands-on craftsmanship outside work.

  • Alpine Skiing & Sports

    Love mountain skiing, staying active, and enjoying nature outdoor activities.

  • Home Workshop & Tinkering

    I have a home workshop for hardware and DIY projects.

  • Continuous Learning

    Following advances in AI, Big Data and deep learning, helped by my own daily AI-news digest.

Work Experience

Track record of technical leadership, enterprise development, and academic research.

Team / Technical Lead

Verisk
March 2018 – Present (8 yrs 7 mos)
Málaga, Spain (Metropolitan Area)
  • Line manager for developers in a cross-functional, multi-country team (developers, QA, contractors). Several of my reports have been promoted, most recently from Tech Lead to Team Lead.
  • Manage Continuous Delivery for a Lloyd's claims platform that brokers and underwriters use as their main claims tool: quarterly releases across multiple clients and dozens of VM deployments a year.
  • Started and led a cross-team overhaul of the release process: replaced spreadsheet runbooks with templated Azure DevOps work items so every step and its timing is tracked, automated repetitive work and introduced the first process for handling deployment bugs. Within a year, median deployment time per environment fell from ~15 hours to ~5, and deployment bugs per release cycle (across all clients) halved from almost 100 to around 50 in two cycles.
  • Built a delivery analytics portal: automation-step timings (mean and median, release-on-release and per VM), deployment-bug trends by category, and an executive summary with a client heatmap of release time against bugs. Adopted by management.
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt: after several Just-Do-It improvements, now leading a project to scale these gains across the product using statistical process control. Other product teams have asked me to walk them through the approach so they can adopt it.
  • Led AI adoption on the product: designed a ~12-agent development system with an orchestrator and a release-analysis agent, presented them to my team and product teams, and opened the release tooling to all ~5 development teams.
  • Interview developer candidates from different countries and mentor new joiners across the company.
  • Before moving to release delivery (2018-2025): led development of enterprise solutions for insurance market clients, including AWS cloud readiness and REST service integrations; ran design and code reviews and set engineering best practices.
People Management Release Management Azure DevOps Lean Six Sigma Delivery Metrics C# / .NET AI Agents & LLMs

Senior Full Stack Developer, then Technical Lead (from 2015)

Sequel Business Solutions Ltd
June 2012 – February 2018 (5 yrs 9 mos)
Málaga, Spain
  • Technical Lead from 2015 of a cross-functional team (developers, BAs, QA), line-managing up to 2 developers. Planned and distributed the work, and shaped the technical side of the product roadmap with product management.
  • Built and evolved products for the Lloyd's placing, broking and underwriting market: .NET migration, new features, REST APIs and SQL Server development, delivered so the release team could upgrade clients.
  • Worked in Scrum teams alongside UK business analysts, product owners and insurance experts, and shared production on-call support.
C# / .NET ASP.NET MVC REST APIs SQL Server Scrum Team Leadership

Researcher - Adaptive Web Services (DEDALO project)

Universidad de Málaga
October 2010 – June 2012 (1 yr 9 mos)
Málaga, Spain
  • Researcher on DEDALO, a European public research project in the Department of Languages and Computer Science (LCC), on adaptive discovery of web services in e-learning environments.
  • Built ontology-based recommendation software over the semantic web that chooses the best SOA endpoint for each task.
  • Designed the service-oriented architecture using Apache Synapse and Apache Tuscany.
Semantic Web & Ontologies Recommender Systems SOA Architecture Apache Synapse Apache Tuscany Java

Researcher - Vodafone R&D Project (BONDI)

Universidad de Málaga
October 2009 – March 2010 (6 mos)
Málaga & Huesca, Spain
  • Continued my final-year degree project on the BONDI API framework, within a development partnership between Vodafone R&D (Huesca) and the Universidad de Málaga.
  • Built software that generates new mobile applications rapidly from a dynamic dashboard modelling the app's workflow.
Telecommunications R&D BONDI Mobile Apps Workflow Modelling Java

Software Development Intern

Yerbabuena Software
November 2008 – January 2009 (3 mos)
Málaga, Spain
  • Web platform development and application deployment practices.
Web Platforms PHP / Web Dev

Full Stack Software Developer

Freelance / Independent
February 2007 – December 2008 (1 yr 11 mos)
Málaga, Spain
  • End-to-end analysis, design, development, delivery, and ongoing technical support for custom web applications.
Full Stack Web Architecture Database Design

Skills & Expertise

Leadership, engineering, AI and languages.

Leadership & Delivery

People Management Release Management Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Scrum Delivery Metrics Lloyd's Market

Engineering

C# / .NET REST APIs SQL Server ASP.NET MVC AWS Java & SOA

AI Engineering & Agentic Development

I design and run multi-agent systems for software teams. At work I built a development system of around 12 specialised agents (developer, QA and test automation, product owner, technical writer, market expert and more) coordinated by an orchestrator. Skills encode our development guidelines, test standards (including AI-assisted TDD) and Azure DevOps access, and guardrails based on permission limits and explicit scope keep the output reliable. I also built a release-analysis agent that reviews deployment bugs and release-time KPIs, applies statistical process control across releases, and reports on causes and prevention. I've presented this work to my team and product teams, reaching 5 to 30 people depending on role. Outside work, I run a daily agent pipeline that tracks AI news and frameworks, writes a digest, maintains a knowledge library in a repository, notifies my phone and publishes to a public web app.

Multi-Agent Systems Agent Orchestration Custom Skills & Agents MCP Integration RAG over Documentation AI Guardrails AI-Assisted TDD Scheduled Agents GitHub Copilot · OpenAI · Claude Claude Code

Languages

English
Full Professional Proficiency
Spanish
Native

AI Projects

Agent pipelines I built and run in the cloud every day.

AI News Fact-Check (Spain)

ai-news.fjgarciahurtado.com

A daily collection of Spanish news from different sources. It contrasts each story against past history to look for evidence, and detects fake news.

AI Agents Fact-Checking Daily Pipeline
Visit Project

AI Digest Library

ai-digest.fjgarciahurtado.com

A daily digest of AI news. It builds an online library from the information it collects, and maintains that library on every daily run.

AI Agents Knowledge Library Daily Pipeline
Visit Project

Minesgram

fjgarciahurtado.github.io/minesgram-site

A game fully generated by AI agents, built with the Claude Code Game Studios framework. Playable in the browser.

AI Agents Game Dev Claude Code Game Studios
Play Game

Education

Academic qualifications from Universidad de Málaga.

Master in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

Universidad de Málaga

One-year postgraduate programme in software engineering and artificial intelligence, taken alongside my research on DEDALO.

2010 – 2011

Ingeniería Informática (Computer Engineering)

Universidad de Málaga

5-year degree, officially equivalent to a Master's (MECES level 3). Final project with Vodafone R&D on the BONDI API framework: a tool that rapidly generates mobile applications from a dynamic workflow dashboard.

2003 – 2009

Connect & Collaborate

Reach out on LinkedIn to connect or discuss common interests.

LinkedIn Profile

linkedin.com/in/fjgarciahurtado

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Location

Greater Málaga Metropolitan Area, Spain