Murcia, Spain/open to conversations

Xavi Sánchez Riquelme

Technical product management, engineering management, and AI products.

Ten years in software, half of them leading the people who build it. I decide what is worth building, keep the team that builds it healthy, and take AI from a promising demo to a product that ships.

Technical product management Engineering management AI products From idea to launch Leading teams Product strategy Video streaming Smart TV Virtual & augmented reality Murcia Tech

Experiencewhere I have worked

built / led
2022 – now

Finetwork

new products development
built

Two experimental products: one in video streaming, one on Smart TV.

led

Their technical direction, from the first sketch to something a person could open at home.

  • Streaming
  • Smart TV
  • Technical leadership
2019 – 2022

NTT DATA

virtual reality platform · technical lead
built

A virtual and augmented reality platform for companies, connecting headsets to online services and web apps.

led

The development team, holding the product question and the technical one at the same time.

  • Virtual reality
  • Augmented reality
  • Online services
  • Team leadership
2016 – 2019

Answare Tech

European projects developer
built

Prototypes in virtual and augmented reality for EU-funded research projects.

led

The company's technical side of those projects, from first prototype to final delivery.

  • Virtual reality
  • Prototyping
  • Web & mobile
  • EU projects

How I workthe same thing, said two ways

plain words
the detail what it means
the detail
a roadmap is a promise about the future
what it means

So I write it in outcomes, not features: what changes for the person using the product.

the detail
a team is not a list of tasks
what it means

People deliver when they understand why. My job is to keep that why clear and the obstacles out of the way.

the detail
an AI demo is not an AI product
what it means

The demo is the easy part. A product needs evaluation, fallbacks, and a reason for people to trust the answer.

Communitythe tech community of Murcia

murcia, spain

Murcia Tech

president

The technology communities of Murcia under one roof: software, electronics, 3D printing, product, video games. Talks, workshops, hackathons, game-making marathons, and the conversation in the hallway that outlasts all of them.

Makers of Murcia + MurciaDev + GameDev
= Murcia Tech / 2026

members on Meetup 1,778
average rating 4.8 / 5
reviews 205
communities merged 3

source: public meetup page, oct 2026

Skillsproduct · engineering · AI

daily work

Product & engineering management

The part that decides what is worth building, and who builds it.

  • Technical product management
  • Engineering management
  • Product strategy
  • Hiring & mentoring

AI & technology

The part that turns an idea into something that ships.

  • Building AI products
  • Video streaming
  • Smart TV
  • Virtual & augmented reality
  • Web & mobile apps
  • Automation

Outside the day job: Android apps on Google Play, a small browser game built with a friend, and a decade of side projects that never shipped. Learning was the point.

Techwhat I actually use

in use today

AI & agents

  • Claude Code
  • OpenCode
  • Anthropic API
  • OpenAI API
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • llama.cpp (local models)
  • Ollama
  • ComfyUI
  • OpenClaw
  • RAG & embeddings
  • MCP
  • Evals & guardrails
  • n8n

Cloud & platform

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Lambda
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • Proxmox
  • Nginx

Data

  • SQL
  • NoSQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • SQLite
  • Elasticsearch

Apps & interfaces

  • React
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Next.js
  • Unity
  • HLS & DASH
  • Smart TV
  • WebXR & VR

Design & media

  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Video making

Product work

  • Figma
  • Linear
  • Jira
  • Notion
  • Roadmapping
  • Discovery interviews
  • Hiring loops

Observability

  • Sentry
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Datadog
  • OpenTelemetry

Not a list of things I have read about. Every one of these has shipped to production or runs on my machine today.

Plus a few more I have forgotten I know. Play with tech long enough and the toolbox outgrows the memory.

Contactopen to conversations

murcia, spain

Building something, or organizing something?

Both start with a conversation.