Jose D. Perez-Diaz

About Jose D. Perez-Diaz

Jose is a seasoned technical leader with extensive experience across diverse sectors, including digital enterprise solutions, fitness technology, e-commerce, enterprise digital worspace, veterinary practice management SaaS, and educational technology. He excels in spearheading the development and execution of comprehensive technology roadmaps aimed at enhancing product user experiences, market competitiveness, cybersecurity, and cost optimization. His leadership shines through his adeptness in building and leading high-performing onshore and offshore technical teams, crafting strategic roadmaps, and addressing customer technical challenges with a focus on fostering continuous improvement and innovation. Jose\'s leadership style emphasizes inspiration and trust, steering away from high-pressure command and control methods. Over 15 years, Jose has implemented advanced cloud solutions and optimized platforms for peak performance, availability, security, and cost efficiency across major providers like Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS. His career journey spans from roles as a Software Developer and Cloud Architect to Director of Technology, CTO, and VP of Engineering. Outside of work, Jose delves into leadership principles through avid reading and podcasts, captivated by their ability to transform team dynamics and foster individual development. His creative spirit finds expression through music, where he takes joy in singing and playing bass guitar, finding both personal fulfillment and inspiration in these pursuits. Soft Skills: leadership, public speaking, coaching, teaching, effective communication, agile methodologies, vendor relationships management, dev. management, team building, technical requirements writing, requirements gathering, conflict management, recruiting/hiring, feature roadmaps, product owner, product development, offshore team leading/management, driving cultural changeTech Skills: connected fitness, c#.net.net core & lambda, objective-c, Java, database design, Vue.js, webpack, Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, devops, Salesforce admin and development, object-oriented programming, test driven development, REST API design, Jira, Circle CI pipelines, YAML, docker, app dockerization (NodeJS with Linux), Google Kubernetes deployments, UX design/mocks, JSON, XML, data protocol design, devops in Azure and Google Cloud, gcloud command-line, hidden feature deployment, remote client configuration, inversion of control frameworks, microservices design & dev, load testing, patented tech(https://patents.google.com/patent/US20•••••••14A1/en)

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Vetspire

   May 2024 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   As VP of Engineering, I set and execute Vetspire’s long-term technical and AI vision during a period of rapid growth and transformation. I own the end-to-end AI strategy, defining the product roadmap and guiding the organization toward an AI-first platform —from models selection through feature production execution. I actively lead architectural decision-making at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, application design, and customer needs, ensuring technology choices directly support scalability, reliability, and customer outcomes.Key Leadership & Strategic Impact:AI & Platform Evolution: Leading the ongoing evolution of the platform, embedding AI into core workflows while ensuring performance and resilience. Modernizing how the company builds software to support expansion into high-complexity university veterinary medicine verticals.Global Organizational Scaling: Scaled the engineering organization by 4× and established global leverage through near-shore and offshore teams across LATAM and Asia. Integrated these distributed teams into a unified SDLC and sustainable operating model that balances velocity, quality, and culture.Strategic Partnerships & Sales: Serve as the technical executive in high-stakes enterprise sales cycles, complex customer solutioning, and critical escalations. I lead Vetspire’s strategic partnership with Google Cloud, aligning AI and infrastructure initiatives to support long-term innovation.Security & Compliance: Drive the vision for security and operational trust, leading the organization to achieve and maintain SOC 1, SOC 2, PCI, and SOX compliance.Operational Excellence: Established organization-wide quality engineering practices that improved system resilience, reducing customer-impacting incidents by 70% during a period where platform usage and codebase size more than doubled.My role blends CTO-level vision with decisive leadership to ensure technology remains a durable competitive advantage as the business scales.

Education

• Universidad de Puerto Rico

  Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering

  1998 — 2003

• Florida Atlantic University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

  2013 — 2014

• University of South Florida

  Masters of Education, Instructional Technology

  2007 — 2008

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Engineering
• Mathematics Education
• Html 5
• Ios Development
• C#
• .net
• Oop
• Flash
• Flex
• E-Learning
• Flash Builder
• Adult Education
• Scrum
• Industrial Engineering
• K-12
• Learning Management Systems
• Object Oriented Design
• Educational Technology
• Tortoise Svn
• Programming
• Instructional Technology
• Pivotal Tracker
• Jira
• Mobile Applications
• Adobe Air
• Flex Sdk
• Xml
• Object Oriented Programming
• Html5
• Json
• Objective-C
• Scorm
• Actionscript
• Instructional Design
• As3
• Design Patterns
• Jquery