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ABOUT ME
Hello, I’m a Cloud Architect & Engineer from Santander. I hold an MSc in Engineering with a double major in Electronics and Telematics, and a master’s in Consulting and Sales from IBM. These days I spend most of my time on AI infrastructure — GPU-accelerated clusters, inference engines like vLLM and Triton, and building LLM-powered apps on top of it all.
Name:
Jesus ArtecheEmail:
Nationality:
Spain
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RECENT BLOG
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MY SKILLS
I lead successful First Of A Kind client cloud projects, from pre-sales to delivery. My strengths are facing challenging projects out of my comfort zone, learn new technologies fast, and coordinate solution design and delivery across organizations.
I have over fifteen years of experience working in IT and cloud platforms field, in addition to a lifetime’s amount of serious study about these subjects in my off time. Recently I have invested time learning, designing and working with clients around AI technologies. I led teams to deliver successful solutions to complex projects with some of the top financial and telco enterprises worldwide
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EDUCATION
Cantabria University
My engineering studies about electronics helped me to start this interesting journey in the field of the engineering. I still applying the thinking process I learnt.
Cantabria University
I study a master about business management of a technology company, this helped me to co-found my own company "DENOE".
Cantabria University
I took an engineering degree in telematics as I've been always fascinating by computer networks. Working on the my final tesis for this degree I got introduced to new programming languages and "the cloud".
IBM Master Sales School
Run this master of the Signature Selling Method from IBM. I learnt the succesful method that IBM has been using to train sellers and consultants to face large and complex engagements.
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EXPERIENCE
Innova Consulting
Head of System department
During this period I started the IT systems department serving to other companies of the group. I grew it to small group of people.
During this period I started the IT systems department serving to other companies of the group. I grew it to small group of people.
IBM
Technical Sales Architect
I drove the adoption of public cloud technologies in IBM at its first stage, educating IBMers and clients. I designed customer’s architectures from small/medium size companies to large complex projects, where I leveraged my leading skills to collaborate across organizations.
I drove the adoption of public cloud technologies in IBM at its first stage, educating IBMers and clients. I designed customer’s architectures from small/medium size companies to large complex projects, where I leveraged my leading skills to collaborate across organizations.
IBM
Worldwide Large & Complex Projects Technical Leader
Leading heterogeneous teams on key strategic and large projects, First Of A Kind projects, creating innovative solutions using top edge technologies, that were re-used on other customer engagements. Reporting internal and customer executives and working with them to establish the short- and long-term strategy. Working closely with sales, offering management and executives to leverage these innovative projects as industry references.
Leading heterogeneous teams on key strategic and large projects, First Of A Kind projects, creating innovative solutions using top edge technologies, that were re-used on other customer engagements. Reporting internal and customer executives and working with them to establish the short- and long-term strategy. Working closely with sales, offering management and executives to leverage these innovative projects as industry references.
IBM
WorldWide Principal Customer Engineering Architect/Engineer
Leading the expansion of the hybrid cloud strategy, enabling and leading technical sales country teams spread worldwide, to be successful on their customer interactions by First Of A Kind demos and Proof of Concept. Leading heterogeneous Customer and IBM teams to accomplish the creation of Minimum Viable Product in a short period of time, by following the IBM Garage method. Lead IBM team to create content and assets that are re-used by technical sales teams in their customer interactions. Use all customer interactions to create new opportunities for IBM to help customers to accomplish their goals.
Leading the expansion of the hybrid cloud strategy, enabling and leading technical sales country teams spread worldwide, to be successful on their customer interactions by First Of A Kind demos and Proof of Concept. Leading heterogeneous Customer and IBM teams to accomplish the creation of Minimum Viable Product in a short period of time, by following the IBM Garage method. Lead IBM team to create content and assets that are re-used by technical sales teams in their customer interactions. Use all customer interactions to create new opportunities for IBM to help customers to accomplish their goals.
IBM
Account Technical Leader
Trusted advisor to a handful of strategic accounts across IBEX 35 and Spanish public sector — I own the technical relationship end to end, working directly with IT directors and CIOs. Lately most of that is AI infrastructure: architecting GPU-accelerated deployments, handing off PoCs to partners for production, and keeping the whole thing running efficiently.
Trusted advisor to a handful of strategic accounts across IBEX 35 and Spanish public sector — I own the technical relationship end to end, working directly with IT directors and CIOs. Lately most of that is AI infrastructure: architecting GPU-accelerated deployments, handing off PoCs to partners for production, and keeping the whole thing running efficiently.
Denoe
Co-Founder
I co-founded this startup and led the technical strategy with a focus on the emerging cloud technologies, building SaaS applications on AWS.
I co-founded this startup and led the technical strategy with a focus on the emerging cloud technologies, building SaaS applications on AWS.
IBM
Worldwide Cloud Solutions Architect
Acting as lead architect for strategic and large customer engagements for new IBM Cloud offerings or acquisition, working with platforms like SoftLayer, OpenStack, CleverSafe, or Bluemix. Evangelizing the adoption of cloud technologies on large and traditional organizations.
Acting as lead architect for strategic and large customer engagements for new IBM Cloud offerings or acquisition, working with platforms like SoftLayer, OpenStack, CleverSafe, or Bluemix. Evangelizing the adoption of cloud technologies on large and traditional organizations.
Universidad Europea
MBA Teacher Cloud Business
I deliver the cloud business class, as part of the IT module on the MBA.
I deliver the cloud business class, as part of the IT module on the MBA.
IBM
Principal Customer Engineering Architect/Engineer
Leading the development of a unified framework to standardize IBM software architecture and deployment across platforms, hyperscalers, IBM organizations, and partner networks. Designed this framework to support diverse skill levels from junior to senior, ensuring consistent implementation across teams. Driving automation integration to embed security and best practices through all layers, from platform infrastructure to DevSecOps pipelines and application templates. Architecting First Of A Kind Proof of Concepts (PoCs) leveraging IBM Software and AI applications for enterprise clients, overseeing successful PoC-to-production transitions by collaborating closely with professional services and account teams. Evangelizing IBM's Artificial Intelligence suite—LLMs, governance, data solutions—both internally and externally.
Leading the development of a unified framework to standardize IBM software architecture and deployment across platforms, hyperscalers, IBM organizations, and partner networks. Designed this framework to support diverse skill levels from junior to senior, ensuring consistent implementation across teams. Driving automation integration to embed security and best practices through all layers, from platform infrastructure to DevSecOps pipelines and application templates. Architecting First Of A Kind Proof of Concepts (PoCs) leveraging IBM Software and AI applications for enterprise clients, overseeing successful PoC-to-production transitions by collaborating closely with professional services and account teams. Evangelizing IBM's Artificial Intelligence suite—LLMs, governance, data solutions—both internally and externally.
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TESTIMONIALS
“I had the opportunity to work very closely with Chechu on a variety of projects.
As an architect, he went beyond the implementation side and worked on a complete solution view. Throughout these projects, Chechu often illustrates the much needed combination of art-of-possible with credible instantiation. He is not phased by a complex challenge. He is determined and driven to learn, unlearn and relearn. He is capable of handling a technically complex project whilst winning the confidence of business stakeholders.”
Moe Abdula
Head of Solution Architecture, WW Specialist, AWS
"He is capable to act as an architect, modeling a solution, managing a team of specialists, developing methodology and governance mechanisms. I think I’ve never met somebody so enthusiastic, so eager to accept challenges no matter how scary they were and spread this energy and tech curiosity to everybody around him, so prepared to work hard -really hard- when it has to be done and to work towards a goal of doing something useful and of value for our customers. It’s a pleasure to work with him and this is what I always remember the most."
Enric Delgado
Distinguished Engineer, IBM CTO for Spain, Portugal, Israel and Greece
"I met Chechu in a project was highly visible to IBM senior executive team. He managed the daily relationship with the client development directors with excellence, turning around an unfavourable situation where the bank showed explicit favouritism to a competitor to a more positive situation, positioning IBM solution over the other providers. After this project I continued to mentor Chechu’s and oversee his career progression over the last several years. He has moved forward from a technical team leader to become a thought leader. He is not afraid of working out of his comfort zone and accepting first of a kind challenges. His passion, enthusiasm, and empathy with the clients positions Chechu as a trusted advisor."
Jerry Denman
Senior Vice President, Core Technology & Operations, Truist
"Chechu has demonstrated excellent leadership driving multiple client projects from start to finish.
Working with one of the largest Telco in the world, Chechu led the technical design of the platform and technical negotiations, minimizing the risk to the IBM brand, working with me and my team to remediate the gaps to meet Client’s requirements. It is typical for Chechu to effectively take ownership of the issues with technical ability and acumen. Chechu’s leadership in driving the client’s requirement, collaborating with the development team is a strong indicator that’s he’s operating at the Thought Leader level already in his work with the client and with the other IBM team members."
Shikha Srivastava
Distinguished Engineer, CTO Automation Platform SaaS, IBM
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