Summary
Gabriel Ferraté is a software engineer with eight years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems from early-stage startups to scale-stage platforms. He co-founded two AI- and finance-focused ventures, led core engineering at YC-backed Aldara where his team automated accounting and operations to handle millions in transactions and multiply employee productivity, and now contributes to Datadog’s Cross-Product Query team managing ~200K QPS. Comfortable across backend, data and AI-driven automation, he has shipped ERP, accounting, customer-support automation and consumer-facing AI content products with hundreds of thousands of users. Based in Barcelona, his academic background spans telecommunications and electrical/computer engineering across institutions in Spain, the UK and the US, reflecting a blend of systems rigor and applied ML. Notably, he excels at turning complex domain requirements into automated, auditable workflows that scale.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Final degree project Electrical and Computer Engineering, Final degree project Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
MSc thesis, MSc thesis at King's College London
Technology track, Technology track at Escola Betània-Patmos