Nicolas Esmoris
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Copenhagen, Denmark
Toptal member since December 14, 2021
Nicolas has been an IT professional for 16 years and specialized in Agile coaching and development for nearly a decade. He is a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner. Nicolas believes that co-creation, collaboration, and diversity are pillars for building creative and innovative teams that solve complex problems and bring new realities to life. He is passionate about technology innovation and knowledge sharing with communities to acquire and impart new knowledge and skills.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Coaching
- Agile DevOps
- Behavior-driven Development (BDD)
- IT Systems Engineering
- Scrum Coaching
- Scrum Master
- Scrum Testing
- Test-driven Development (TDD)
Work Experience
Senior Agile Coach
Self-employed
- Led other agile coaches at a non-IT company during their first Agile experience.
- Helped agile coaches build out the roles for the scrum master, product owner, and DevOps leads.
- Interacted directly with C-level executives to report the status of Agile adoption in their organization.
- Enabled organization-wide changes, starting with a pilot project and evolving to the whole portfolio.
Agile Coach
Self-employed
- Provided remote coaching on Agile principles for employees in the United States, Ireland, Argentina, and China.
- Assisted in growing the team from three to fifteen scrums while serving in multiple roles, including scrum master, proxy product owner, DevOps lead, and agile project manager.
- Implemented many practices, such as TDD, BDD, continuous integration, and pair programming. Worked in China for three months, setting up some of the Scrum cells.
- Worked directly with CIO sponsors and key stakeholders in each region.
Agile Release Manager
Self-employed
- Coordinated ten software teams working in Argentina, Spain, and the United States.
- Delivered top-quality services under huge constraints.
- Defined releases and hotfixes and coordinated scrum of scrum activities for all.
Scrum Master
Self-employed
- Joined a brand new team as scrum master during this client's first Agile experience.
- Started with a small, co-located team that expanded rapidly into a distributed team of up to 18 members in three locations within Argentina.
- Set up Agile practices, including Planning Poker, pair programming, continuous integration, and TDD.
Project History
Agile Expert in LATAM
Established and led Agile capabilities within one company and expanded Agile across the LATAM region over eight years.
• Sales support for Agile adoption and transformation
• Presentations to potential clients and at conferences within Agile communities
• Interviews with scrum master and agile coaching candidates
• Career paths for scrum masters and agile coaches
• Points of view on TDD, BDD, Agile testing, and DevOps
• Employee training on Agile methodologies and practices (it and not it)
Agile Coaching
Led Agile adoption within different companies, from sales to delivery.
• Implemented Agile methodologies at the enterprise level, including SAFe and Less.
• Helped clients understand the benefits of an agile mindset.
• Identified the best portfolios to start working on to see short-term results.
• Led clients to become scrum masters or product owners.
Scrum Master
Led 30+ teams over ten years to implement Scrum methodology combined with SAFe, Less, scrum of scrums, and Spotify.
Education
Executive Program for Managers in Project Management
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering
National Technological University - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS
Leading with Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Applying Artificial Intelligence: Creative Gaming
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
Agile Leadership
Scrum Alliance
ICAgile-Agile Certified Coach (ICP-ACC)
Kleer
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
SAFe 4 Agilist Certification
Scaled Agile, Inc.
Design Thinking Coach
LUMA Institute
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Trello, Jira
Paradigms
Test-driven Development (TDD), Azure DevOps, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Scrum, Agile, Organizational Change Management (OCM), Continuous Integration (CI), Planning Poker, DevOps, Agile Product Management, Design Thinking, Kanban, Continuous Delivery (CD)
Platforms
Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Other
IT Systems Engineering, IT Systems Architecture, IT Project Management, Agile DevOps, Agile Coaching, Scrum Master, Scrum Coaching, Scrum Testing, Product Owner, Product Discovery, Enterprise Coaching, Cloud, Design, Planning, Pair Programming, Scrumban, IT Projects, IT Management, Management 3.0, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Gaming, Scrum Product Owner, Remote Work, Stakeholder Management, Release Management, Agile Software Testing, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Less
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