Àlex Bacardit
Founder & CEO at Startup Grind
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolÀlex Bacardit is a founder and CEO with 11+ years of experience scaling a Barcelona-based boutique development consultancy, MarsBased, to €2M annual revenue and a 20-person team while specializing in Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript stacks. He combines hands-on engineering roots with business development chops, landing large international contracts within months of founding and maintaining 30–40% annual profit margins. As a regional leader in the Startup Grind network he has built a vibrant entrepreneurial community—running 170+ events and founding an 800-person conference—demonstrating his strength in community-led growth and event-driven marketing. An active angel investor with ~30 early-stage bets across Spain and Silicon Valley, he brings practical fundraising and M&A experience to founders he mentors. He also experiments with public-facing media, co-hosting a Catalan tech podcast and curating Barcelona’s Startup Digest, which helps him stay plugged into local and global startup trends. Colleagues describe him as quality-obsessed: prioritizing long-term partnerships, clean code and sustainable product development over short-term wins.
11 years of coding experience
IES Salvador EspriuFinal Year Project, Computer Science, 9.0, Final Year Project, Computer Science, 9.0 at Technical University of MunichBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
English, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, German, French
Github Skills (44)
audience10
cms10
javascript10
web-application10
python10
ghost10
jamstack10
headless-cms10
ember10
journalism10
nodejs10
structured-data9
json-ld8
rdf8
css8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MarsBased/handbook
Dec 2015 - Aug 2022
Here you will find the MarsBased employee handbook and some of our guides & interesting stuff you should read.
Contributions:9 reviews, 118 commits, 24 PRs in 6 years 8 months
handbookremoteemployee-handbookinteresting
MarsBased/marsbased-website-old
Jul 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:92 commits, 79 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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