cv

Head of Engineering — Digital Transformation Leader — Venture Builder
diego@mibstar.co.uk 🔗 LinkedIn 🌎 mibstar.co.uk📍W/Sussex, UK

Profile-PictureDiego Moore

Summary

A highly versatile Polymath Technologist with more than 24 years of experience delivering innovative digital products across agencies, startups, and enterprise environments. Able to bring a unique blend of technical depth, creative vision, and strategic thinking — shaping polished user experiences and scalable architectures across diverse technology stacks (.NET, LAMP, Java, MACH) and platforms (CMS, e-commerce, CRM, Mobile, IoT, Cloud Native).

With a proven track record in pre-sales, consulting, and full product lifecycle delivery, I thrive in fast-paced, high-impact environments. I posses a leadership style that is both hands-on and collaborative, fostering high-performing teams and driving excellence in engineering practices.

Key Strengths:

Professional Experience

Founder & Principal Consultant mibstar

Mibstar Ventures 📍 London ⏳ 2016 – Present

A boutique Technology Consultancy, Mibstar Ventures My personal Venture Building vessel I’ve established to capture on-going collaborations in start- up capacity over the years some of which are stealth or incubation phase.

Previous projects below

Director of Backend Development monks

Monks Technology Services (formerly Zemoga) 📍 Bogotá / Remote ⏳ Sep 2019 – Jun 2024

Returned to Zemoga (now Monks Technology Services) to re-establish the strength of the backend development practice. I was part of the pitch team for their largest opportunity in their then 17 year history, a ramp-up of 150 team members for Morningstar to nearshore their offshore dependency with China.

This coincided across the company with increased complexity in engineering projects and a particular focus in the FinTech sector and the associated due diligence and standards such as ISO certification requirements.

Highlights & Accomplishments:

Key Clients:

Technical Director (Interim CTO)

Hello Daisy (via Mibstar) 📍 London ⏳ Oct 2018 – Aug 2019

Having engaged previously on two occasions with Hello Daisy I was asked to come on board to cover for their CTO while an A series round was raised. My responsibilities included:

Founder & Principal Consultant mibstar

Mibstar Ventures 📍 London ⏳ Jun 2016 – Sep 2018

Having been empowered with my experience at Seth Godin’s AltMBA I pivoted Mibstar (formally Mibstar Technologies) to focus on Ventures where I’m able to apply my experience and passion for building digital products in start-up environments.

The variety of the ventures is indicative of the importance of spending time on projects I have an affinity towards. Some of them I’ve been able to help ship include:

Technical Director (Fractional)

The Unit (via Mibstar) 📍 Brighton ⏳ 2015 – 2016

I was brought in to bolster the Technology team of this independent UX and Design agency, which was increasing their Financial Sector clients as well as expanding to larger and more complex projects.This required some insight and experience throughout from the pitch process all the way to implementation. Leading and expanding the relatively young team from front-end prototyping projects to full implementation of transactional e-commerce sites with associated integrations.

Establishing modern development practices, leveraging new tooling (Atlassian, AWS & fortrabbit), frameworks (Laravel & Drupal 8) and working collaboratively with client-side Architects (esure).

Key Clients:

Consultancy mibstar

Mibstar Technologies 📍 London ⏳ Mar 2015 – Apr 2015

Working alongside a digital consultant as technical consultant supporting the newly appointed Chief Digital Officer of a FTSE-250 wholesaler that was undertaking a re-platform for Booker Group PLC.

I continue to provide support to several start-ups, with a focus in the shadow-banking sector and related FinTech industry where we’re currently in the final stages of a 2 years FCA accreditation process for our platform.

Lead Technical Consultant precedent

Precedent 📍 London / Cardiff / Edinburgh ⏳ 2013 – 2015

End-to-end technical consultant working alongside other business strategy and UX consultants, during all phases of delivery of digital strategies for Precedent clients.

My involvement started early at the pitch process supporting new business as well as during discovery and definition phases. I worked to establish technical solutions through client stakeholder workshops in order to define the requirements and subsequent solution design.

Gathering input from technical analysts and platform leads, I established best practices within Precedent.

Key Clients:

Reccomendation
Diego is great to work with, he brings attention to detail and insights into his work from the experience has from working on so many projects. He is keen to bring people together and work as a team to deliver...

I find Diego is hard-working and very keen. I can recommend him as he is great to work with.

Hardip Bhamra — Managing Director (UK), Precedent

Director of Technology zemoga

Zemoga 📍 Bogotá / NY ⏳ Feb 2012 – Sep 2013

In addition to leading the App Development department I took responsibility over the Technology Operations team as well as being active within the Sales support structure previously carried out by the CTO.

Other areas of responsibilities included ownership of the hosting infrastructure (primarily Amazon), PBX systems connecting 3 sites and roll-out of various local infrastructure upgrades.

Project Highlights:

Key Clients:

Reccomendations
A very difficult challenge is to find a senior technologist that can lead a team within a creative culture. If you see Diego for the first time you would think he's an artist, but behind his coolness lies technical genius...or technical creative genius I must say. I witnessed first hand how he successfully managed to deliver high quality projects during high stress circumstances for high level global brands. He proved effective integration with visual design and UI development distributed teams while manoeuvring ever changing client requirements...all without loosing sight of his integrity and leadership character.

If you are looking for technical creative genius, I strongly suggest you don't waste the opportunity to have Diego on your team.

Alejandro Gomez — Founder, Zemoga
Diego was a joy to work with, helping illustrate complex technical problems in easy language and clear solutions

Chris Altman — Director of International Digital Media - A+E Networks, NY

Director Application Development zemoga

Zemoga 📍 Bogotá / NY ⏳ May 2011 – Jan 2012

Lead a multi-disciplinary development team providing support for digital strategies primarily for a US clientele. Diverse projects from campaign specific sites like the NYC Marathon, bespoke Drupal development, several e-commerce launches, native iOS apps and working with TeamSite ECM on several projects.

Working closely with the US Sales Team on pitches and technical pre-sales support as well as closely off/on-site with clients.

Key Clients:

Reccomendation
Diego is the technologist that you want on your team. I've forever been impressed with his dedication, quick (and correct) decision making, dedication to his work and team. To manage development with very short to long timelines, you need someone with the high level of discipline and care that Diego brings to the table.

He handles rapidly changing requirements with the level of agility that is required, yet is also keen on making sure that everything is well considered before moving forward.

Of all the managers I've hired over the years, Diego will always be in the top of the list, and I enjoy watching him advance as time goes on.

Dennis Portello — CTO, Zemoga

Application & Systems Architect parliament

UK Parliament 📍 Westminster ⏳ 2010 – 2011

Joined a large in-house Applications & Development department which was running a £8m Procedural Data programme to upgrade bespoke business critical systems which support both Houses (the House of Commons and the House of Lords) with many ASPNet MVC, WPF and underlying RESTFul Web Services.

One of the key objectives of this Procedural Data programme was to enrich data closer to the source in order to publish it in digital form in-line with cost saving exercise to reduce multi-million print contracts.

As such I was responsible for defining, presenting and getting approval of the Product & Solution options papers and their subsequent High Level Designs through the Enterprise Architecture Board. This included the data schema definitions for core data (People, Parliamentary Questions, Written Statements, etc) that would be published on data.parliament.uk

2001 – 2010

Full CV can be found online: diegomoore.github.io/CV

2001 – 2010

Technical Director eurekastep

EurekaStep 📍 London ⏳ Apr 2006 – Mar 2010

Strengthened and developed a more in-depth technical service offering into this Digital Media Agency to compliment the growing and expanding client requirements. Leveraging in-house skills and near-shore partners using both off-the-shelf products and bespoke development depending on suitability.

Key Clients:

Recomendation

It's been a long hard slog, but sheer guts, determination and proven commercial results have helped Diego to become one of the greatest technical architect's in the business. He's an amazing visionary and I've lost count of the amount of times he's been pipped to the post on technical ideas he's been working on by the heady crew at either the BBC or Apple!

For those who have money to invest wisely, he has a clarity of vision and sparkling understanding that would make even some of the great whites stand up and take notice.

Warren Wysocki — Managing Director, EurekaStep

Web Applications Developer (2003) > IT Manager (2004) eurekastep

EurekaStep 📍 Horsham ⏳ Aug 2003 – Mar 2006

Balanced inward facing responsibilities of Managing IT alongside the increasingly more important outward responsibilities to ensure the IT needs of clients and their projects were being met for web application projects.

Key Clients:

Recomendation

When carrying delivery and commercial responsibility for blue chip client engagements, bleeding edge/emergent technologies are typically seen as being a high risk proposition.

Having worked with Diego (2001-2008) on the successful sale and delivery of many ‘never been done before’ projects, as our Technical Director he carried a maturity and realism as to which technological boundaries should be pushed.

Selling technology solutions to large scale established organisations where they would be seen as early adopters, or even the industry test cases, became the norm and that drive for innovation brought an exciting, highly rewarding (and often challenging) market differentiation to our business model.

Having worked in a Tier 1 IT company for the last 3 years, I can see that Diego’s ideas and technologies are now viewed as foundational for the next generation ICT delivery model. Concepts such as Open Source, Cloud Computing, Software as a Service, Collaboration etc are being grasped for the cost savings that they can realise in a challenging economic environment, particularly by the Public Sector.

I would highly recommend Diego as an innovator who will always be driven to be one step ahead of the market. The wise move is to invest in his ideas.

Iain McKay — Chief Operating Officer (COO), EurekaStep

Web Developer

Digital Media & Motion ⏳ Sep 2001 – Aug 2003

Recomendation

Diego is an extremely capable and dependable problem-solver and has wide-ranging experience in the delivery of technical solutions over the Internet.

Dan White — Development Manager, Digital Media & Motion

Skills

💬 Languages

🇬🇧 English – Native / Professional 🇪🇸 Spanish – Native / Bilingual / Professional

Hard skills

Software Development

Data Persistence

CMS’s

Devices

Platforms

Infrastructure

Security & Compliance

Real (soft) skills

👨🏼‍🎓 Education

🏆 Awards