As with any startup, you never get the time to do the little things. I’ve been with Abaca Technology as their Director of Engineering for more than six months already and I just got a chance to write my bio for the leadership page. I think my focus has been in the right area because we’re making some serious progress. These are exciting times. If only I could talk about it more openly.

Renato J. Mascardo
Director of Engineering

Renato brings over a decade of experience leading engineering organizations with proven success inspiring large engineering teams to high levels of quality, productivity and innovation. Renato has extensive experience taking to market enterprise software, application lifecycle management, SaaS, commerce and mobile products. He has been involved with startups throughout his career and driving ideas to market.

Prior to joining Abaca, Renato was a senior engineering manager at Hewlett-Packard’s hyper growth software division (formerly Mercury Interactive). There he helped build two successful engineering teams and helped push the two products into Gartner’s magic quadrant. Before Hewlett-Packard, Renato was a technical leader for Borland Software where he architected and developed full application lifecycle management solutions for their biggest customers. Prior to joining Borland Software, Renato was a technical leader at Scient. There he was involved in building the first generation of large scale web applications including Sephora.com and Powerspring.com. Also, while at Scient he founded the mobile computing consulting practice while wireless technologies were still in its infancy and was one of the co-founding members of a product based company spin out.

Renato holds a B.A. degree in Computer Science from the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA.