Felipe Polo
CEO & Co-Founder at Team Hackers
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolFelipe Polo is a serial founder and technology leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling software consultancies and product ventures from Madrid. He co-founded and grew GuideSmiths to €9M ARR and 120+ autonomous engineers before exiting, and now leads Orbitant while founding Sherpa Platform to democratize CFO-grade financial management for SMBs. Felipe blends hands-on engineering roots with strategic management training (IE, MBA) and executive coaching, enabling him to translate product, finance and people challenges into repeatable playbooks. He mentors startups at SeedRocket, invests at pre-seed/seed via PR Investments, and shares growth and systems insights through the Team Hackers newsletter and Playbooks podcast. Known for operationalizing autonomy and metrics-driven decision making, he pairs technical fluency in web and microservices with a founder’s instinct for market fit. Unexpectedly, his background in emotional intelligence and NLP underpins a leadership style focused on team autonomy and high-performance culture.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Engineer, Computing Engineer at Universidad Complutense de MadridMaster in Emotional Intelligence, Master in Emotional Intelligence at Universidad Camilo José CelaAdvanced Management Program Business Administration and Management General, Advanced Management Program Business Administration and Management General at IE Business SchoolExecutive Coaching, Executive Coaching at Escuela Europea de CoachingMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Instituto de Directivos de Empresa (IDE-CESEM)NLP Practitioner, NLP Practitioner at Instituto Potencial Humano
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (116)
docker-compose9
api9
docker9
yeoman9
azure8
telegram-bot8
gauge8
azure-cosmos-db8
microservices8
arm8
telegram8
timer8
poc8
bot-framework8
adapter8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
onebeyond/interview-code-challenges
Jun 2018 - Nov 2019
A set of code challenges for One Beyond interviews
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
feliun/graphql-workshop
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:59 commits, 14 pushes, 35 branches in 3 months
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