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. There was a real market opportunity, but after developing and shipping everything we realised we lacked the financial muscle for marketing. 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 — field devices with cloud connectivity, a monitoring system for large-scale solar plants — all created from scratch to be genuinely disruptive for the company's market needs, and several presented to ICEX and Horizon 2020.

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, where 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 engineered for maximum security — pentested with HackerOne — 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. The product mutated several times as we hunted for traction, until we joined forces with Kineox, a payment platform, to enable login and payment straight from the phone with maximum security and minimal friction. I worked with Corti at Product Hackers to sharpen the strategy, shipping it as a configurable plugin built for the lowest possible integration friction, while keeping fraud-reduction services for enterprise clients 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 creating product from scratch inside a product company.