# Manuel Losada Rodríguez — Product Leader

> Spain-based Product Leader (Madrid). 10+ years shipping hardware-to-cloud products end to end across cybersecurity, IoT and ocean data — from device mechanics and firmware through cloud APIs, web and mobile apps to the user experience and the business case behind them. Currently Ocean Data Product Lead at Satlink.

- **Role:** Product Lead · Senior PM · Technical PM
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Contact:** manuel.losro@gmail.com
- **Site:** https://www.manuel-losada-rodriguez.com/
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## Summary

Shipping hardware-to-cloud products end to end. 10+ years leading product across cybersecurity, IoT and ocean data — owning the path from the business concept down to the functional implementation: device mechanics and firmware, cloud APIs, web, mobile apps and the user experience. I work where engineering, stakeholders and tenders meet, and I review architecture, not just specs.

- 10+ years in product
- 6 industries shipped in
- 0→1, concept to launch
- 2 industry awards

## Best-fit roles

Senior Technical Product Manager · Product Lead / Head of Product · Platform Product Manager · API & Integrations Product Manager · Identity / Cybersecurity / Payments Product Manager · IoT / Data-Platform Product Manager · Product advisor / fractional Head of Product.

## Best-fit environments

B2B SaaS and platform products · secure digital products (IAM, KYC, authentication, payments) · cloud-connected products with hardware, IoT or field devices · data-driven products with complex technical integrations · scale-ups needing business–technology translation · regulated environments (PSD2, GDPR) and public-sector tenders.

## Selected work

### Ocean Data Product Lead — Satlink, Madrid (since 2024)
Shaping a new product area, Ocean Data, on top of Satlink's existing technological base. Lead the work across HW, FW, cloud and data verticals, define the roadmap and align engineering, stakeholders and business.

### Head of Product — B-FY, Madrid (2020–2023)
Owned scope, strategy and roadmap for a biometric IAM and online-payments platform across web and physical access points. Reached 30+ ecommerce clients with the own-branded login and checkout flow; pivoted to a white-label model embedded inside clients' own apps and closed 3 enterprise deals — notably ATIO (Mexican fuel-supply software), integrating with their IT systems and POS terminals to eliminate fleet fuel-card fraud (in production). Delivered the Kineox payment-verification integration, ID-document processing via Mitek and jenid, and 20+ additional ecommerce integrations. Worked with Gartner for category positioning; security stress-tested via HackerOne bug-bounty; PSD2 and GDPR-aligned.

### Product Owner, Smart Cities & Secure HW — Gamma Solutions / Biocryptology, Madrid (2014–2018)
Built and led the development team from the ground up. Smart-city field devices deployed across 300+ Spanish municipalities under the Red.es smart-cities programme, including an early-adoption PLC-comms layer. Solar-plant monitoring across 5 utility-scale plants (~15 MW each). Earlier: a CDTI-funded NFC label printer. At Biocryptology, defined the SwipeID secure-signature key fob with Foxconn — 200-unit pilot to pharma/military-grade specs.

## Technologies covered

Hardware (mechanics, electronics, embedded), firmware, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, microservices, secret/key vaults, Android, iOS, ASP.NET, APIs and integrations, IoT field devices, biometrics, payments (PSD2), KYC (Mitek, jenid), AI/LLM use cases, data platforms, computer vision (Kalman filters). PSD2/GDPR alignment and continuous security testing (HackerOne).

## Recognition

Premio a las 100 Mejores Ideas 2023 (La Caixa) for the Interactive Rural Tourism project; Product Hackers Awards 2019 (Utilities & Tech). Second-best academic record of both his Master's in Industrial Automation and his Industrial Technical Engineering degree at the University of Alcalá.

## Availability

Open to in-house product leadership roles (Head of Product, Product Lead, Senior PM), advisory engagements for early-stage companies and innovation units, and product-shaping conversations with founders or CEOs. Native Spanish, full professional English. Contact: manuel.losro@gmail.com