Rubén Velasco Rodríguez
Content Manager at Grupo ADSLZone
Palencia, Spain · 1990
I lead editorial strategy at one of the largest Spanish-language technology media groups: ADSLZone, SoftZone, HardZone, RedesZone, MovilZona, La Manzana Mordida, Testdevelocidad and other publications.
My job is to make sure millions of monthly readers find useful, well-ranked content — and that the team producing it has the best tools to do so. Most of the time that means writing fewer processes and more code.
What I do
Editorial
Coordination across all the group's publications: content lines, quality standards, calendar and writing teams.
SEO & GEO
Search visibility and generative engine optimisation, where publishers have to earn their visibility all over again.
Artificial intelligence
I define the company's AI strategy and build the internal tooling that makes it real, from the model to the editor.
Experience
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2026 — now
Content Manager
Grupo ADSLZoneHead of editorial for every publication in the group and owner of its search and AI strategy. Point of contact for brands, manufacturers and agencies.
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2018 — now
Senior hardware & gaming analyst
HardZone · Grupo ADSLZoneTest methodology, benchmarking, reviews and buying guides. Previously co-editor-in-chief of HardZone.
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2016 — 2026
Editor-in-chief
SoftZone · Grupo ADSLZoneContent planning, SEO, team management and quality control at the leading Spanish site on software, Windows and consumer security.
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2012 — 2026
Technology & security writer
Grupo ADSLZoneWriter and security specialist at RedesZone; contributor to ADSLZone, MovilZona, Testdevelocidad and TabletZona. Thousands of published articles.
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2011 — 2012
Renault Spain · Valladolid plant
Production line operator (temporary cover) -
2011
Soluciones Informáticas On-Line
IT technician (internship)
Open projects
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PKDEX
A Spanish-language Pokédex built around actual play: moves by level and TM, evolutions, type weaknesses, regional forms and capture locations for every Pokémon in each mainline game. Adds a comparison tool, team builder, type charts and a trading-card database. Web app with its own API, prerendered content for search engines and offline use.
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OpenCesta
Public dataset with price history for Spanish supermarkets, published daily in Parquet. Per-chain adapters, a shopping-basket optimiser and an MCP server to query it from AI assistants.
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Code & Craft
Browsable catalogue of open-source projects, experiments and libraries, with search, filters and a curated view of 10k+ star repositories.
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PostIA
Master's final project: an article generator built as a 12-stage pipeline with per-stage models, research from real sources and fact verification with confidence scoring.
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Halt and Block Mining
In-browser cryptocurrency mining blocker, released during the 2018 cryptojacking wave. 21 stars on GitHub.
Internal systems I've built
At Grupo ADSLZone. Proprietary software: no links, no public code.
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GAZ AI
Platform that centralises the group's generative-AI usage: feature-driven routing to provider and model, versioned prompts, cost and usage per user and site, and an API for integrations. It ships with Bridge, a browser extension that brings all of it into the WordPress editor: editorial audits, article improvement with research, news generation, images and infographics, and a social studio.
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Editorial SEO · GEO · SXO auditor
Service that audits any article and returns an actionable report: a scorecard per axis, the five top priorities, directly applicable text proposals, a persistent checklist and automatic comparison against competitors and against the previous review.
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SEO Radar
Weekly monitoring of 25+ industry sources to catch algorithm changes, product news and editorial opportunities, turned into a prioritised briefing for the newsroom.
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AI article generator
Assisted-writing pipeline with real web research, a style profile per publication and in-house SEO and GEO rules. It delivers headline, body and metadata ready to apply in WordPress.
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Autopost & newsletters
Automated social publishing with AI-written copy to lift CTR, and per-publication newsletters with story selection, topic deduplication and generated text. Retries, status dashboard and alerts.
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Autotag
Keeps the trending block of several sites up to date from analytics data, with SEO-optimised labels, Slack approval, atomic writes and rollback.
Education
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2025 — 2026
Master's Degree in AI Application Development
BIG schoolDual certification with the University Expert in AI Development certificate from Universidad Isabel I (16 ECTS).
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2025
Business Intelligence: AI, Big Data and Other Digital Tools
Adams Formación · 150 hours -
2009 — 2011
Higher Technician in Telecommunications and IT Systems
IES Trinidad Arroyo, Palencia -
Other
Additional training
- English B1 certificate — UNED
- CCNA Discovery 1 & 2 — Cisco Networking Academy
- Introduction to Linux and Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure — The Linux Foundation
- SEO: organic search positioning — Universitat de Vic
- Writing for the web — Universidad de Navarra
Contact
- Personal ruvelro@gmail.com
- Work ruben.velasco@grupoadslzone.com
- LinkedIn in/ruben-velasco
- GitHub github.com/ruvelro