Juande Santander-Vela is the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) Development System Engineer. He joined the JAO on June 2022, and since then has been managing the System Engineering activities related to the ALMA 2030 Roadmap in general, and the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade in particular. Electronics engineer by training, with specialisation in digital signal processing, he has both academic and enterprise experience in software development management and systems engineering. His Master Thesis was on the characterization of wavelet compression in both perceptual and real artefacts. He did his Ph.D. on how to bring radio astronomical data and tools into the Virtual Observatory (VO) at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucia (IAA-CSIC), and his first post-doctoral position was at the European Southern Observatory, where, as Applied Scientist, he was responsible for metadata quality and the VO interfaces of the ESO archive. He was later assigned to the first delivery of the ALMA Archive Query Tool, which was launched in October 2011. After a small stint back at IAA-CSIC working as project manager for the VIA-SKA project, and contributor to the software development of AstroTaverna, he joined the SKA Organisation in March 2014, where he initially served as the System Engineer for the Telescope Manager (control and observation management) and the Science Data Processor (data reduction and early data processing) elements of the SKA telescopes, and later as the System Engineer for all software systems. During a career break, he also worked for the Chilean government as the Project Scientist/Engineer for the Data Observatory initiative. After the career break, he returned to the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), where he became the Head of Software Product Management, responsible for the features that development teams were to develop.