Manuel Losada Rodríguez

University of Alcalá (DEPECA research group) · Madrid

I joined the DEPECA research team at UAH, building products by programming their functionality and adapting algorithms to real hardware. I developed a Kalman filter for positioning an autonomous wheelchair through odometry and computer vision, a route-tracing algorithm that searched XML building floor plans to compute the shortest path, and contributed to the design of modular robots. This stage built the technical foundation that later supported my product leadership across software-hardware systems.

RingApp (co-founder) · Madrid

With a partner I co-founded an official startup and built a communications app for Android and iOS, owning both the product definition and the supporting server infrastructure. We reached 1,000 users, but the product required two connected users to deliver value — a network-effect mechanic that demanded a marketing investment we didn't have. Honestly, I founded the company young: strong on the technical execution, green on marketing and growth at the time. It was a formative period that taught me far more about real-world product than the theory I came from, and it gave me an end-to-end view of product creation from concept to operational release.

Gamma Solutions · Madrid

This is where I learned to turn an idea into a team — and a team into shipped product. I kicked off on a CDTI-funded project to build a massive NFC label printer that digitally recorded and physically printed complete rolls with individual personalization per label, juggling mechanical hardware, firmware and a connection to our internal API so the whole machine behaved as one product. After relocating to the Madrid headquarters I jumped into smart-city projects and started building the development team from the ground up. Over several years I led a stream of R&D initiatives of very different natures, including: smart-city field devices deployed across 300+ Spanish municipalities under the Red.es programme — plus an early-adoption PLC communications stack for street infrastructure that we kept losing to Zigbee in public tenders on price; a monitoring system covering 5 utility-scale solar plants (~15 MW each), scoped to be certified by the asset's investment fund as the maintenance platform of record; and several smaller initiatives. Several were presented to ICEX and Horizon 2020. Working with devices that live unattended on public infrastructure made secure device-to-cloud communications and remote-update discipline a baseline requirement of every design, not an optional extra — the start of a security-first habit that later deepened in cybersecurity proper.

Biocryptology · Madrid

Having seen first-hand how many systems are actually built, I moved deliberately into cybersecurity. I led the technical definition and research for the SwipeID product: an electronic-signature key fob that, bridging through the mobile app, let users authorise and verify digital transactions securely using public/private key signatures. It was a deep, maximum-security development built in collaboration with Foxconn, engineered to pharma- and military-grade specs and produced as a 200-unit run. Technically we got there, but the certification timelines for those grades turned out to be longer than the commercial window the market gave us — the strategy promised a position the calendar couldn't deliver, which set up the move toward a software-only model. My job was to keep the hardware, firmware, server and apps moving as a single coherent product, coordinating secure communications for Android, iOS and proprietary hardware across both high- and low-level security layers.

Biocryptology — B-FY · Madrid

Reading the market and the synergies, the company pivoted hard towards mobile-app-based cybersecurity with no external devices — and I took the product lead. Together with the advanced engineering team we built an auto-scaling system on AWS that delivered secure login for client websites, physical access points and online payments. We launched it under our own brand and reached 30+ ecommerce clients securing login and checkout to reduce friction during access and purchase. The product worked, but the prospecting cycles consistently revealed that real enterprise demand wanted the same capability embedded inside their own apps, not as a separate brand — which set up the white-label pivot of the next stage. We engineered for maximum security — running a continuous HackerOne bug-bounty programme on top of the pentests — using the leading tooling of the time: Kubernetes, the relevant AWS services, secret/key vaults, Kafka and a microservices architecture, all aligned with PSD2 and GDPR. My real value here was connecting the dots: making sure backend, apps, firmware and security all served one product story.

B-FY · Madrid

As Head of Product I owned the scope, strategy and roadmap for secure biometric identity and online payments — and the mission of making them feel like one seamless experience whether the user was on a website or standing at a physical access point. After the own-brand stage failed to reach critical mass, we pivoted to a white-label model embedded inside the clients' own apps, the shape the market had already told us it wanted. We closed 3 enterprise deals, most notably ATIO — a Mexican fuel-supply software provider serving many gas stations across the country; we integrated with their IT systems and POS terminals to eliminate fraud in fleet fuel-card operations, and the solution stayed deployed in production. The other two deals shipped under the clients' own brand and aren't named here: both ran on-premise to fit each client's product strategy, with full GDPR alignment for the relevant service. We also delivered the Kineox integration as a payment-verification method, enabling login and payment straight from the phone with maximum security and minimal friction, and added the platform to 20+ additional ecommerce sites. On the identity side, we closed integrations with Mitek and jenid to process digital ID documents, extending the platform's KYC capabilities for regulated client flows. To position the product into the right market we engaged with Gartner on category placement, and I worked with Corti at Product Hackers to sharpen the strategy. Security was continuously stress-tested via the HackerOne bug-bounty programme, the platform shipped as a configurable plugin built for the lowest possible integration friction, and fraud-reduction services for enterprise clients stayed fully GDPR-aligned.

Independent consultant · Madrid

After opening the market with the B-FY product, an opportunity to work as a product consultant came up at the right moment. I advised companies operating in high-security digital environments on product strategy, technical architecture and solution design — including machine-learning use cases, ChatGPT API integrations, Android apps and immersive viewers — and helped them weigh third-party services against custom development. It was a beautiful year defining product but not building it, which made me want to return to shaping product end to end inside a product company.