Alberto Martínez Zurita - Principal AI Engineer
Strategic Solutions Architect bridging Enterprise Reliability and Agentic AI Innovation

Alberto Martínez Zurita ▼

Principal AI Engineer & Enterprise Architect | Google AI Hackathon Winner (1st/4.4k)

Strategic Solutions Architect bridging the gap between Enterprise Reliability and Agentic AI Innovation.

Barcelona, Spain · albertomz@gmail.com

Executive Summary ▼

Senior Solutions Architect with 20+ years of experience in Banking and Critical Systems, currently pivoting to lead Agentic AI adoption.


I combine the rigor of enterprise architecture (Java/Spring, Security, Observability) with the agility of modern AI engineering. I don't just design slides; I build production-ready, ethical AI systems.


  • Global Winner: 1st Place in Google Cloud AI Agents Hackathon (Enterprise Track).
  • Innovator: Ideator of internal Software Health Frameworks and creator of the "Understand, Comprehend, Learn" strategic framework for AI adoption.
  • Tech Leader: Proven track record orchestrating multi-agent systems and leading AI for Good initiatives (Financial Inclusion).

Professional Experience

Senior Solutions Architect (AVP) ▼

Deutsche Bank

– Present | Barcelona

Technical leadership in global standards definition, cloud transformation, and architectural governance.

  • Product Owner - Software Health: Led internal technical debt framework and quality metrics. Team of 8 engineers transforming Sonar/SRE data into actionable insights.
  • Cloud Architecture (GCP): Strategic advisory for Google Cloud solutions meeting banking standards. Modernized monoliths to microservices on Cloud Run/GKE.
  • AI Evangelism: Created "AI: Understand, Comprehend, Learn" program and "DIRECTOR Method" workshop. +350 employees trained in GenAI and Prompt Engineering.

Enterprise Architect & API Strategy Lead ▼

Banc Sabadell

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  • PSD2 Principal Architect: Open Banking architecture for TSB Bank (UK). Critical APIs under PSD2 regulations.
  • API Management: CA Layer7 platform implementation. OAuth2, throttling, and corporate governance standards.

Elite AI Milestones (2024-2025)

🥇 1st Place Winner - Google AI Agents Hackathon (Enterprise Track)

| Global Competition (4,477 submissions)

Project:  |  Video:

The Challenge:
Production AI agents are fragile. We needed proven resilience.
The Solution:
Engineered a Chaos Engineering framework for AI Agents. Systematic fault injection to train automatic recovery strategies.
Engineering:
Hybrid Architecture (Deterministic Python + Probabilistic LLM). Ran 1,000+ experiments, achieving a 60% reliability increase (98% success under chaos).
Tech Stack:
Google ADK, Vertex AI, Docker, Poetry

🏭 "Hands-On" Projects & Open Source

  • SAVIA (AI Lead - Financial Inclusion Hackathon): Led the AI strategy for an inclusive financial assistant. Designed a secure RAG architecture on Google Cloud, prioritizing explainability and EU AI Act compliance.
  • Agentic Swarm: Local orchestrator of specialized agents (Architect, Dev, QA) for autonomous software development. Self-correcting system inspired by the software development lifecycle.
  • Z-AI-Video-Generation: Automated video pipeline using local models. Orchestrates Image, TTS, and Audio on consumer hardware, applying Open Source & GreenOps principles.

Technical Competences

Agentic AI & LLMs ▼

Frameworks:
Google ADK, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, MCP
Models:
Gemini, Claude Sonnet/Opus, GPT
Techniques:
RAG (Graph & Light), CoT, ReAct, Vibecoding (Gemini CLI / Claude Code)
Advanced User:
Gemini, Perplexity. Expert in Prompt Engineering, creator of the DIRECTOR Method framework
Local Inference:
Ollama, LM Studio (VRAM Optimization)

Enterprise & Cloud (GCP Certified)▼

Solid Backend:
Java (Spring Boot/Cloud), Microservices,Event-Driven Architecture (CEP)
Observability & Ops:
ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Docker, Kubernetes
API Management:
API Strategy,Gateways (Layer7), Security (OAuth2, OIDC)

Full Stack & Data ▼

Web:
Python (FastAPI/Flask), Angular/React, Tailwind CSS, HTMX (for fast AI UIs)
Data:
SQL (Oracle PL/SQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), Vector DBs

Qualifications & Certifications

Ingeniero Superior en Informática

Master degree

UPC (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña / Polytechnic University of Catalonia)


Languages

  • 🇪🇸 Spanish (Native)
  • 🇬🇧 English (Professional)
  • 🏴 Catalan (Native)

Professional Certifications

  • Google Cloud Professional Architect (+20 Badges: ML, DevOps, Security)
  • Google Cloud Skills Boost (Verified 2025):
    • Deploy Multi-Agent Systems with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
    • Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG
    • Develop GenAI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit
    • Prompt Design in Vertex AI
  • Kaggle: 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google (Winning Capstone Project)
  • AI Engineer Agentic Track Udemy

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