Diego Mosquera Soto

Engineering Manager @DeepL

Berlin, DE

Built and scaled a cross-functional team responsible for rapidly iterating, pivoting, and maintaining collaboration systems for paid and enterprise customers at DeepL.Strategic planning & delivery: Co-led roadmap planning with the Product Trio, enabling fast decision-making and timely delivery of initiatives that proved critical to the success of DeepL’s B2B strategy.Change management & engineering excellence:Introduced modern software engineering practices including: Feature flagging, dogfooding, Shift-left QA (engineer-owned automated testing), Trunk Based Development and “Zero bugs” policy which significantly improved developer experience, accelerated delivery, and raised product qualityReframed technical debt as product debt, ensuring visibility and prioritization within the roadmap.Transitioned the team from role-based specialists to full Product Engineers owning systems end-to-end.Customer collaboration: Partnered directly with high-profile global enterprise clients, co-developing features to solve user problems and fostering long-term strategic relationships.Leadership & community building:Co-founded EMPower, a weekly roundtable for Engineering Managers to share knowledge, align on cross-team initiatives, and strengthen organizational cohesion.Led the challenge creation of the Fullstack Engineering Hiring Playbook, aligning recruitment with a product-first engineering mindset. This included: Fraud prevention protocols, AI fraud spotting, Interviewer training and calibration, Revamped hiring rubrics for mid and senior engineers.

SOAS University of London

Master of Arts (M.A.) - MERIT, Global Creative & Cultural Industries

Doc in progress Organization

Workshop, Documentary Films

Colombus American School

Bachiller

Universidad de La Sabana

Comunicador Audiovisual y Multimedios, Communication and Media Studies