Summary
Borja Gorriz is a platform and security leader with 12+ years building distributed systems and JVM-backed backend services, now steering platform reliability and security at Lace Lithography. He blends hands-on architecture and engineering with people leadership, having scaled and led multiple cross-functional teams at Glovo and Datadog while owning roadmaps, modularization and operational excellence. Borja excels at turning strategic plans into repeatable delivery processes—improving OPEX maturity, incident management, and CI/CD across startups and scale-ups. As a founding engineer at Twende he defined engineering culture, end-to-end infrastructure and analytics for a mobility product in West Africa, showing a strong product-minded technical instinct. He pairs a strategist/idealist personality with a bias for execution and mentorship, frequently hiring and coaching engineers through growth and reorganization. Based in Barcelona with a background in telecommunications and sonology, he brings a rare mix of systems-level rigor and creative problem framing.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Cointinuing Education Sound Broadcast Engineering; English, Certificate of Cointinuing Education Sound Broadcast Engineering; English at Glyndrw University Summer School (Wrexham- Wales)
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Telecommunications Engineering at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya