Summary
Gorka Arostegui is a Spanish founder and CTO with eight years of software engineering and product leadership experience, currently building Foodlus, a SaaS platform that digitizes restaurant operations from table ordering to intelligent loyalty. He combines hands-on full-stack development (React/Next.js background) with strategic product thinking to prioritize automation, operational efficiency, and modular, market-ready architectures that improve profitability for hospitality businesses. Earlier roles span founding startups, consulting at Accenture on large financial systems, and teaching as a dev instructor at OpenBootcamp, reflecting comfort across startups, enterprise projects, and education. His career started in operations and retail, giving him rare empathy for front-line hospitality needs and the practical discipline to ship lean, business-focused tech. Gorka is based in San Sebastián and is notable for turning small operational improvements into scalable software platforms that serve thousands of venues. He blends engineering craft with commercial instinct, often automating low-value tasks to unlock margin and speed.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Exchange Student at University of South Florida
Industrial Engineer, Automotive Engineering, Industrial Engineer, Automotive Engineering at TECNUN - Campus Tecnológico de la Universidad de Navarra
English, Spanish, Basque, German