Enrique Velasco-castillo
CEO & Founder at Summantic Labs
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolEnrique Velasco-Castillo is a payments and digital commerce strategist turned founder with 13 years of experience spanning fintech advisory, telco digital services research, and product strategy at scale. He led payments practice work at BCG—covering merchant acquiring, Open Banking/PSD2, CBDC and ecosystem design—and then drove long-range payments and commerce innovation at Spotify. His background blends rigorous research (MSc in Cognitive & Decision Sciences) and academic teaching with hands-on market analysis in renewable energy and healthcare, giving him a systems-level view of technology, regulation and user behaviour. Now CEO & Founder of Summantic Labs in Amsterdam, he combines consultancy-grade problem framing with startup execution, often translating complex payments regulation into commercially viable product blueprints. Notably, he has led distributed, cross-region teams and repeatedly moved between research, strategy and implementation roles, which helps him bridge executive strategy and product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Social Sciences, Master of Arts - MA Social Sciences at The University of FreiburgPontificia Universidad JaverianaUniversity College London
English, Spanish, German, French
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Github Skills (14)
forloop6
python6
chatgpt2
large-language-models2
ai2
gpt2
tui2
gemma1
llama1
ollama1
essence1
mistral1
claude1
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
eavc/thompson-calculus-made-easy-trans_ES
Aug 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:18 commits in 3 days
eavc/eavc.github.io
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 4 days
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