I'm a Certified Scrum Master & Product Owner and AI product strategist stepping into Cybersecurity, who turns ambiguous requirements into shipped software. 10+ years leading Agile delivery across SaaS, AdTech, e-commerce, and fintech, on top of a career that began in regulated financial services 20+ years ago.
I protect delivery cadence, coach high-performing teams, and own the backlog end-to-end:
๐ Discovery โ ๐ User stories โ โ๏ธ Sprint execution โ โ QA โ ๐ Release
On top of that, I am fully hands-on as an independent strategist and consultant, shipping AI products (LLM features, RAG pipelines, AI agents) for teams navigating the AI-native landscape.
- ๐ Scrum Master: facilitate all ceremonies, remove impediments, track velocity / burndown / cycle time, manage cross-team dependencies and risk
- ๐ Product Owner / Manager: backlog ownership & prioritization, user story mapping, acceptance criteria, OKRs/KPIs, C-suite stakeholder management
- ๐งช Quality: BDD, acceptance-criteria-driven testing, UAT coordination, Definition of Done/Ready, live PROD support in zero-tolerance regulated environments
- ๐ค AI delivery: LLM feature releases, RAG pipeline coordination, prompt engineering oversight, responsible AI governance
- ๐๏ธ note-taker โ AI meeting recorder with Gemini transcription, keyword extraction, Google Drive sync, and a live Meeting HUD. React + TypeScript, Firebase auth.
- ๐ metro-roadmap โ interactive metro-style product roadmap tool with SVG canvas, swimlane story maps, dependency tracking, and workspace snapshots. React + TypeScript, local-first.
- ๐๏ธ productpromplibrary โ a curated prompt library for product people: reusable prompts for discovery, backlog work, and stakeholder comms
- ๐ socialmediaconsumption โ data-science notebook exploring the link between social media consumption and wellbeing (KNN, SVM, Random Forest)
- ๐ง Water-Tracker โ Android app for tracking daily water consumption (Kotlin)
Jira ยท Confluence ยท Azure DevOps ยท Notion ยท Figma ยท Miro ยท Power BI ยท Tableau ยท Looker ยท SQL ยท Python ยท Claude Code ยท OpenAI / Anthropic APIs ยท Azure AI Foundry
- ๐ฅ SAFeยฎ 6 Scrum Master ยท SAFeยฎ 6 Agilist ยท CSM ยท CSPO (SPOPC)
- ๐ MBA (MIU City University Miami)
- ๐ MSc Cybersecurity & Analytics, in progress @ St. Thomas University
- ๐ Bilingual EN/ES ยท based in South Florida
- ๐ผ linkedin.com/in/diego-avella
- ๐ฆ @DiegoAvellaP
- ๐ธ iamdiegoavella
- ๐ซ diego.avella@me.com