Kevin Mamaqi Kapllani
Engineering Manager (Hands-On) · Barcelona, Spain · Updated July 2026
Profile
Hands-on engineering manager and software engineer with 15+ years building software across AI infrastructure, maritime operations, healthcare, and travel. I lead teams and stay close to architecture, implementation, and delivery: making complex systems easier to understand, more reliable in production, and useful to the people who depend on them.
Core skills
Experience
Eachlabs
Engineering Manager (Hands-On)
StackTypeScript · Go · AWS · workflow orchestration · AI agents
- Lead the engineering team while remaining close to architecture and implementation: structured 1:1s, feedback loops, priorities, and clear expectations.
- Architect and build critical workflows, executors, APIs, backend services, and AWS infrastructure for an AI product platform.
- Drive technical clarity across teams and report engineering health, risks, and strategy directly to the CEO.
- Set the bar for maintainability through code review, system simplification, reliability work, and practical architectural decisions.
- Build AI agents and internal tools with security gates, keeping agent-assisted work useful without weakening product or data boundaries.
Ninety Percent of Everything (90POE)
Senior Software Engineer · Team Lead
StackGo · React · TypeScript · GraphQL · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes
- Owned backend and frontend services for vessel planning, itinerary, port-call, and onboard workflows used in real maritime operations.
- Led a cross-functional engineering team through technical direction, code reviews, mentoring, delivery planning, and close work with product owners.
- Implemented APIs, database migrations, system optimisations, CI/CD improvements, and architecture changes that reduced operational friction and accelerated customer onboarding.
- Delivered interactive map-based planning tools and contributed to the migration to TypeScript, a new component system, and stronger Playwright/Jest test coverage.
- Upgraded and launched features across a group of 10 products, their frontends, and APIs while keeping delivery aligned with product and technical owners.
Robbie AI
Lead Front End Engineer
StackReact · TypeScript · GraphQL · PostgreSQL · Jest · Cypress · Docker
- Led frontend development for healthcare applications used by hospitals and nursing staff to support clinical workflows and patient safety.
- Built React and TypeScript interfaces and contributed across the stack with GraphQL APIs, PostGraphile, PostgreSQL row-level security, and automated tests.
- Worked with product and medical teams to translate healthcare requirements into clear, reliable, production-ready software.
- Kept the design system scalable across internal and external applications while coordinating priorities with the CEO and CTO.
AI-O · Artificial Intelligence Orchestrator
Full Stack Engineer
StackReact · React Native · Node.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · WebRTC · Docker
- Developed healthcare products that helped doctors and hospital managers monitor COVID-19 evolution and make data-informed decisions.
- Worked across the PERN stack (PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) and TypeScript, delivering interfaces, APIs, and internal back-office tools.
- Led development across senior and junior engineers, set the CI/CD and development environment, and translated business requests into executable technical work.
HartCare
Co-Founder
StackPython · React · React Native · REST APIs
- Co-founded a digital health startup focused on products, algorithms, and services for cardiovascular care.
- Led early platform architecture and development while collaborating with healthcare professionals on practical tools for patients and medical staff.
Founder & earlier work
Euroviajar.com
Founder
- Own and grow an international travel platform across product design, application development, SEO/SMO, content, and business operations.
- Built the product through hands-on engineering and coordinated writers, marketers, and other contributors as the platform evolved.
- Turned a long-running product into a durable operating business by adapting its technology, content, and audience strategy over more than 15 years.
Teldat S.A.
Software Engineer
StackReact · Redux · Puppeteer · Node.js
- Built dashboards for monitoring banking-sector data consumption in real time, combining a React interface with Node.js services and Puppeteer-generated views.
HartCare Algorithms · LUMC
Software Engineer · Research
StackPython · kNN · React · React Native · REST APIs
- Developed a Python algorithm for heart-arrhythmia detection using k-nearest-neighbour methods and contributed to its clinical research context at LUMC.
- Built cross-platform interfaces and REST APIs to make the algorithm and its results usable across web and native applications.
TU Delft · Medisign
Student Assistant · Medical design
- Assisted with the coordination of the Medisign specialisation, including the Capita Selecta programme and collaboration across medical-design courses.
- Connected design, research, and technology perspectives for students working on complex healthcare problems.
Selected client work
Software engineer · consultant
StackReact · Node.js · Python · OpenCV · Leaflet · ECharts · Highcharts
- Built APIs, eCommerce systems, interactive maps, and research tools for Desguaces Aeropuerto, Zaragoza Dinámica, Bazus, Siwell, Toldos Serrano, Biopyc, Inbonis Rating, Alten, and other organisations.
- Created a statistical market-analysis tool with JSON/Node.js data, ECharts and Highcharts visualisations, atypical-product detection, and on-the-fly graphics generation.
- Developed an OpenCV system for tracking surgical tools in knee arthroplasty and Leaflet/React itineraries connected to WordPress APIs.
Teaching & mentoring
IT Academy · Barcelona Activa
Coding Mentor
- Mentored hundreds of students through React, Node.js, and Data Science projects, technical assessments, and career preparation.
- Designed advanced courses and helped evolve the curriculum towards current industry practices.
Eurecat · Ceina Formació
Software development mentor · teacher
- Taught full-stack web and app development, including frontend, backend, networks, deployment, accessibility, security, and testing.
- Mentored Node.js, React, and Data Science projects and delivered advanced React, coding, and testing training for professional teams.
Education
TU Delft
MSc Integrated Product Design · Medisign specialisation
University of Zaragoza
Degree in Industrial Design Engineering and Product Development
Selected public work
2025 · A Novel Approach to Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Bi-LSTM-Based Networks, Mathematics.
2020 · Perspectives of Patients and Professionals on Information and Education After Myocardial Infarction, JMIR Human Factors.
2024 · Ace the Technical Interview with AI, practical workshop at Talent Arena / MWC Barcelona.