Hi, I’m Valentin Secades. I am a Senior Software Architect with 26+ years of experience delivering high-performance software across desktop, web, embedded, and mobile platforms. I have led cross-functional teams in e-commerce, IoT, and the web, guiding end-to-end product delivery and building scalable solutions that align technology with business goals. As founder and CEO of Quality XP Development, I champion best practices, mentoring teams and shaping architectures that prioritize maintainability, quality, and user-centric design. I thrive on turning complex business needs into pragmatic technology strategies, driving agile execution, and developing robust mobile, web, and embedded solutions. I enjoy collaborating with UX/UI, product, and backend teams to ship cohesive applications, while fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability.

Valentin Secades

Hi, I’m Valentin Secades. I am a Senior Software Architect with 26+ years of experience delivering high-performance software across desktop, web, embedded, and mobile platforms. I have led cross-functional teams in e-commerce, IoT, and the web, guiding end-to-end product delivery and building scalable solutions that align technology with business goals. As founder and CEO of Quality XP Development, I champion best practices, mentoring teams and shaping architectures that prioritize maintainability, quality, and user-centric design. I thrive on turning complex business needs into pragmatic technology strategies, driving agile execution, and developing robust mobile, web, and embedded solutions. I enjoy collaborating with UX/UI, product, and backend teams to ship cohesive applications, while fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability.

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Hi, I’m Valentin Secades. I am a Senior Software Architect with 26+ years of experience delivering high-performance software across desktop, web, embedded, and mobile platforms. I have led cross-functional teams in e-commerce, IoT, and the web, guiding end-to-end product delivery and building scalable solutions that align technology with business goals. As founder and CEO of Quality XP Development, I champion best practices, mentoring teams and shaping architectures that prioritize maintainability, quality, and user-centric design.

I thrive on turning complex business needs into pragmatic technology strategies, driving agile execution, and developing robust mobile, web, and embedded solutions. I enjoy collaborating with UX/UI, product, and backend teams to ship cohesive applications, while fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability.

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Language

Spanish; Castilian
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English
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German
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Work Experience

Senior Manager, Mobile Solutions (Experience Engineering) at Publicis Sapient
August 1, 2025 - Present
Lead architecture, development, and deployment of high-performance React Native mobile solutions; end-to-end product delivery; cross-functional collaboration with UX/UI, product, and backend teams to deliver cohesive, user-centric applications.
Senior Full Stack Engineer at GenerationalStory.com
November 1, 2024 - March 1, 2026
Senior full-stack development for a SaaS product serving thousands of customers in online social media; backend Ruby on Rails and frontend React JS/React Native; PoC for LL.M. model selection, tokenization, and integration; architecture across embedded, cloud, and mobile systems.
Senior Integrations Lead Architect, IoT at SENTINEL Framework
January 1, 2019 - Present
Lead integrations architecture for an IoT platform; cross-functional coordination across customers and silos; prototype data bridging and multi-agent orchestration for edge devices.
Senior Software Engineer, IoT at Belkin / Linksys
March 1, 2013 - December 1, 2021
IoT software engineering for WeMo product line; frontend to embedded integration; migration to Cordova-based front-end; team of 7+ across US and Asia.
Senior Software Engineering Lead, IoT at Belkin
January 1, 2022 - October 1, 2022
IoT leadership for WeMo product line; architecture and migration to modern patterns; cross-functional collaboration; vendor coordination.
Founder and CEO at Quality XP Development Software Engineering Services S.A.
August 1, 2008 - Present
Founded an agency focused on end-to-end software engineering services for clients in e-commerce, IoT and the web; defined organizational processes, KPIs, and delivery governance; led client engagements and R&D efforts.

Education

Machine Learning Specialization at Stanford Online / DeepLearning.AI
February 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
M.S. Candidate in Electronic Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
November 1, 2016 - December 31, 2019
B.Sc. in Software Engineering at Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
February 1, 2005 - July 1, 2009
Licentiate in Chemical Engineering (European License) at Universidad de Costa Rica
January 11, 2030 - June 22, 2026

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Education, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics
    Backcountry.com

    The work with Backcountry.com extended to several areas. The first and most important one was the maintenance of their sites for high profile athletes, of which they had over a dozen. Each site’s work included the setup of a custom programmed CMS backed instance for the athlete to use, which used a proprietary product from them that provided context to the several blogs that needed maintenance, and custom programming to enhance the user experience for shopping purposes on their network.

    RealCyclist.com

    Project consisted of the separation and migration of RealCyclist.com from a previously crated base that was sitting atop a Java framework product, to a base that was a one page e-commerce frontend sitting atop a Java based backend. Used my frontend expertise to help migrate the product, test in different browsers, and help get the mobile first aspects of the product integrated successfully for all target platform.

    Bikewagon.com

    For 3 years before being bought by Level 9 Sports, Bikewagon.com became a force for the purchase and re-sale of outdoor gear, primarily mountain bike oriented products and accessories. They managed to amass a great deal of followers in the field, and worked with an inventory of thousands of products.

    AVI-ON.com Magento E-Commerce Platform

    The interaction with the AVI-ON IoT group started some years ago, when we were approached to assist them with an e-commerce platform build for their product line. The purpose of the same was to have a means by which users could purchase their IoT products, and have a way to provide order and account support for the same.

    Magento was decided upon as the technology stack at the time, with AWS hosted infrastructure as a base.

    AceAge Health Monitoring Platform

    Mobile Hybrid platform creation and programming in use by the IoT product. Contract work included the creation and programming of the Hybrid product base in use by their mobile app.

    AceAge Health Monitoring Platform

    Mobile Hybrid platform creation and programming in use by the IoT product. Contract work included the creation and programming of the Hybrid product base in use by their mobile app.

    SENTINEL Framework

    The project was a collaboration between multiple engineers to build the framework for an Agritech IoT product. There were multiple pieces of hardware that got build, namely sensors for ground humidity, luminosity sensors, temperature and relative pressure sensors as well. We also built a LoRaWAN Gateway to tie these all together, that was using either a WiFi, Ethernet, Cellular or Satellite backhaul in order to provide connectivity for the data.

    Merge-RX ERP SaaS Platform

    The Merge-RX SaaS platform is an ERP platform that merges several functionalities under a single roof:

    • Patients
    • Medical Records
    • Scheduling
    • Inventory
    • Invoicing

    and a lot more, allowing for medical facilites or individual medical practitioners to manage their practices in an organized fashion. Integrates AI workflows, oAuth connectivity into Google services and more.

    Merge ERP

    The Merge-ERP SaaS platform is an ERP platform that merges several functionalities under a single roof:

    • Clients
    • Scheduling
    • Inventory
    • Invoicing

    and a lot more, allowing for medical facilites or individual medical practitioners to manage their practices in an organized fashion. Integrates AI workflows, oAuth connectivity into Google services and more.