# Jose Alvaro Flores Gambarelli

> Product Designer @ Bending Spoons | Design Engineer

Location: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Profile: https://flows.cv/josealvarofloresgambarelli

Engineer turned designer. I bring a diverse range of interests in multiple fields, from creative web development to product & experience design.

As a Designer & Engineer, my unique value proposition lies in seamlessly integrating both disciplines within a product team. With dual BSc degrees in Mechatronics and Computer Science, as well as an MSc in Digital Interaction Design, I excel in merging development and product design to create impactful solutions.

My expertise includes applying Agile Methodologies to develop, test, and deploy impactful web experiences. I specialize in designing comprehensive digital products. I thrive in environments that allow me to combine technical proficiency with creative problem-solving to deliver exceptional user experiences.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Bending Spoons
Jan 2025 – Present | Milan, Italy

### Senior Product Designer @ what. AG
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Zurich, Switzerland

### Senior Product Designer @ Rarely Decaf
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Milan, Lombardy, Italy

### Senior Product Designer @ Avenue 8
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
— Transitioned to work with the product team full time as a senior product designer.
Was responsible to work on a new consumer facing product from ideation to
production driving the whole product design process end-to-end.

### Design Engineer @ Avenue 8
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
— Responsible for developing the Avenue8.com website to use
GatsbyJS and GraphQL in order to improve performance and generate real estate
agents profiles dynamically. I was also responsible for connecting the front end to
Strapi, a headless CMS.
— Worked on delivering MarketComp to launch, the second mainline product of Avenue 8. focused on generating Comparative Market Analysis (CMAs) for real estate agents. Typescript + ReactJs

### UI Developer @ Aerolab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Argentina - Remote

### Product Designer @ Menta Mente® Creative Studio
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San pedro sula, Honduras

### Front End Developer & UI/UX Designer @ Chekku
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Honduras
Chekku.co

Chekku, a B2B SaaS startup based in Honduras, is a platform that empowers managers who work on industries involving logistics/field sales with realtime field data. How? With Checkins, dynamic forms and realtime mobile based GPS Tracking. 

My role in Chekku involves Front-end development & UI/UX design. I'm in charge of driving the design process forward, from researching the best user onboarding, wireframing, A/B Testing designs to developing & implementing new front-end features. With experience in UI/UX & front-end development, I'm able to take full ownership of the visual design and development implementation of entire modules in Chekku. 

Some of the contributions I've made include:
- Designed & developed the new website Chekku.co
- Developing a new module which involves creating & assigning recurring tasks for the field personnel.
- Developed a new "grid mode" view for the tasks page
- Maintenance and debugging responsive design issues 
- Improving implementations for the live GPS Tracking feature.
- Designed empty state illustrations for in-app use
- Researched & proposed the UI/UX for the creation of multiple task at once, improving the UX of the 
   application. Also developed the front-End which involved designing the UI, build the components and 
   connecting them with the Restful API services
Core technologies include:

-AngularJS
-NodeJS and Express (only for debugging)

### Software Engineer @ Grupo Leitz
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Honduras
As a Full-Stack software engineer I was responsible for visually updating & partially porting a .NET ASPX application to ASP.net MVC5. The application ran a virtual workflow in which documents were approved according to ISO 9001 processes. I was responsible for the development of the new updated front-end & partially updating the legacy backend codebase.

Core technologies I worked with include:
-ASP.net MVC5
-ASPX Webforms 
-Entity framework 
-LINQ & SQL Server

### Software Engineering Intern @ Grupo Leitz
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Honduras
http://www.grupoleitz.com/

Leitzgroup is a software development company with application development, support, outsourcing and IT Training.

For my period as an Software Engineering (Full-stack) intern I was responsible for building a check-in system to manage working hours for in-house employees. Hardware technologies like RaspberryPi & RFID cards/readers were used as part of the physical aspect of the project. Real time software libraries like SignalR were used as the project had to run in real-time.

Core tecnologies I used include:
-.NET Asp.net MVC5
-LINQ & SQL Server
-SignalR
-Entity Framework
-JQuery
-Windows IoT Core with Rpi


## Education
### MSc in Digital and Interaction Design in Digital Product Design
Politecnico di Milano

### Informatics Engineer in Informatics
Centro Universitario Tecnológico

### Bachelor of Computer Science Student in Computer Science
Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana

### Certification in Automation Engineering
Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)

### Mechatronic Engineer in Mechanical, Electronics & Automation
Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alvarofloresgambarelli

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Last updated: 2026-03-31