Techstars

Working 1:1 with cohorts in the Techstars Boston program to shape individual growth strategies for maximum impact during and after the program.

Expert-in-Residence, Growth

Selected as an All Star Mentor for the 2022 and 2023 cohorts

All-Star Mentor

Mentor-In-Residence

Mentor

D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University

Teaching the "Entrepreneurial Venture Growth Strategies" course to undergraduate B-school students.

This is a capstone course on how to develop growth-focused products and/or service strategies, making them attractive for venture funding.

Lecturer

Globalwork

We create reliable links between companies and their candidates to hire and retain the best talent.

Growth Advisor

First Round Fast Track

First Round's mentorship program for established tech operators looking to give back and gain a unique community.

Harvard Innovation Labs

Invited in Oct '17 to host office hours for startups in the i-lab program to help them with product validation and marketing.

On the virtual judges panel for the President’s Innovation Challenge in Apr '18.

In Oct '18, moved to the roster of specialists for Launch Lab X (an offering exclusively for Harvard alumni-led ventures who's initial cohort started in September '18) to assist with early growth challenges.

Marketing Specialist

The McCarthy(s) Venture Mentoring Network

Providing meaningful and impactful mentorship for Northeastern University affiliated ventures.

Underscore VC

The Underscore Core is a curated group of exceptional entrepreneurs, executives, and
experts who work in partnership with Underscore VC, an earliest stage venture capital firm, to
identify transformative entrepreneurs and support them as they build iconic companies. Core
Members have collectively built hundreds of companies, created thousands of jobs, served
millions of customers and created billions of dollars in value for their stakeholders.

Core Member

Seedstars

Mentoring startups in developing economies through weekly growth meetings for assigned startups, office hours or participation in bootcamps.

Activities include:
- Coaching to adopt growth methodologies, tools and proven practices
- Helping gain insights from their growth experiments
- Support with ongoing planning and execution to hit growth goals
- Tracking growth data and providing insights to the internal investment committee for follow-on investment decisions.

I actively support talent of color, to help provide access to opportunities.

Supporter

The mmj.org Initiative

Advisor

"The Growth Guy" | Author, Growth Hacking for Dummies (Wiley & Sons) | Startup Mentor |

Order my book, "Growth Hacking for Dummies" on Amazon with the link below.

Accomplished growth and community professional with a demonstrated history of implementing principles that lead to authentic growth. Certified talent optimization leader skilled in connecting talent strategy to business
goals.

Skilled in extracting growth insights from qualitative and quantitative data that drive continuous improvement for businesses.

Anuj Adhiya 📈

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Technical Lead in the Stock management domain in the commerce platform of El Corte Inglés.

Technical Lead

• Implementing new features and solving complex software defects as part of the Marketplace engineering team in the new commerce platform of El Corte Inglés (the biggest department store group in Europe and third worldwide).
• The platform is a data-intensive distributed system serving millions of customers across different countries. It's built on an event-driven architecture that leverages Spring Boot and Spring Cloud for microservices development and Kafka as a message broker.
• Collaborating closely with other teams, engineers, managers, product owners and testers to translate business requirements into technical specifications and software solutions in an Agile environment.
• Onboarded and mentored 3 new engineers joining the team.

Software Backend Engineer

Shopify

• Senior QA Engineer in the Marketplaces team, enabling our strategic partners to connect their users with thousands of Shopify's merchants globally, providing best in class commerce experience fully integrated into their applications.
• Focus in assuring quality of critical features such as Cart and Checkout, by performing Test Automation, Functional and Performance testing and Quality coaching in a multicultural and distributed team of senior engineers.

Senior QA Engineer

eBay

• QA Lead of the Southern Europe Regional Development team, collaborating in the execution of strategic global initiatives and the delivery of high value features for millions of users of eBay sites worldwide, leading the collaboration with Business Units and distributed Engineering teams across different countries and time zones.
• Quality Assurance of innovative business initiatives, from the inception of the global QA strategy to the definition of testing plans and automation strategy, with a focus on Shift-left testing and Secure by design paradigms.
• Involvement in the eBay Quality Champions and Security Champions committees along with the main Quality and Security responsibles all over the world.
• Coaching and mentoring of development team members in QA & Testing best practices, serving as Quality ambassador in the team and leading by example.
• Participation in innovation projects and initiatives, organizing talks and learning sessions.
• Facilitation in retrospectives and conduction of team processes and culture definition.

Staff Software Engineer, Quality

• Member of the Southern Europe Regional Development team, collaborating in the delivery of high value features for millions of users of eBay sites across Europe, focusing in the collaboration with Business Units and Engineering teams across different countries and time zones.
• Quality Assurance of new features and enhancements, from the inception of the testing strategy for each particular epic and story to the definition of testing plans and the design and execution of exploratory and automated functional, security, performance and accessibility tests.
• Involvement in the eBay Quality Champions and Security Champions committees along with the main Quality and Security responsibles all over the world.
• Participation in innovation projects and initiatives, organizing talks and learning sessions.
• Facilitation in retrospectives and conduction of team processes and culture definition.

Senior Software Engineer, Quality

atSistemas

• Participation in multiple software development and maintenance projects as QA Architect, specialized in the automation and integration of testing and technical debt control activities in Agile and DevOps environments.
• Definition of QA services at both strategic and operational levels. Performing of consultancies, presales, technical solution in offers and presentations to clients.
• Technical Lead of the QA Expert Center. Support to the members of the QA & Testing Community of atSistemas in the resolution of technical challenges. Participation in hiring processes through conduction of technical interviews.
• Speaker in various formative and informative events.

QA & Testing Tecnical Lead

Gfi España

• Coordination and execution of projects and services in the field of Software Quality Assurance, Test Automation and processes improvement.
• Coordination and elaboration of technical offers for Software Quality projects and services.

Senior SQA Consultant

• Participation in projects and services in the field of Software Quality Assurance and processes improvement.
• Coordination and deployment of the software development methodology in the Application Services area (~250 people), defining and configuring processes, templates, guides and tools. Quality Auditing.
• Analysis and elaboration of improvement initiatives in development and management processes in main customers.
• Support to the Corporate Quality area and involvement in international Quality Committees of GFI Group.
• Coordination and elaboration of technical offers for Software Quality projects and services.

SQA Consultant

Answare

• Definition of the organization's management processes and development methodology for the continuous improvement of the software quality. CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC and ISO 9001:2008 standards implantation.
• Integration of all standards in the organization's Quality System. Quality Tool Responsible. In charge of Workplace Hazards Prevention.

Quality Manager

• Analyst-Programmer in development projects.
• Responsible of R&D projects carried out within partners consortiums at European levels.
• Development processes improvement. Department processes design and integration for fulfillment of CMMI-DEV, ISO 9001:2008 and UNE 166022:2006.

Software Engineer

Universidad de Valladolid

• Analysis and Research on PATRAC (ACcessible PATRimony: R&D for culture without barriers).

Researcher

Junta de Castilla y León

• Application Analyst.
• Analysis and testing of the Health Resources Management and Search GIS tool.
• Analysis of the patients MBDS register application.

Software Analyst

With over 15 years of rich experience in the field of software development and testing, I am currently thriving as a Backend Engineer. Over the course of my tech adventure, I've tackled a variety of roles and projects, learning and growing every step of the way.

My tenure with global commerce leaders like Shopify and eBay imparted me with valuable industry-specific knowledge, working in domains such as Marketplaces, Shipping, Payments, Loyalty and Search. I enjoyed  teaming up with diverse groups from different parts of the world and across different time zones.

Previously, as a consultant, I partnered with clients from various industries, including Retail, Banking, Insurance, and Telecommunications, among others, to define and integrate Automation strategies, Software Quality Assurance activities, and Agile Development Methodologies.

Presently, as a Backend Developer, I am harnessing my years of expertise and passion for technology to contribute significantly to my role. My scope of work involves but is not limited to:

• Java/Spring backend development
• Data-intensive distributed systems
• Building APIs (REST, GraphQL)
• Scripting (Bash, Node.js)
• Database analysis and queries (SQL, Mongo, Couchbase)
• Quality Enablement in development teams
• Code/PRs review
• DevOps environments (CI/CD pipelines definition and configuration)

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