Summary
Manu López is a serial founder and tech leader with seven years of hands-on experience building product- and developer-facing fintech and consumer products, now founding Plaude to create the AI-native backbone of the financial industry. He built the first crypto Mastercard in the Americas around age 20 and launched his first game at 13, combining early technical curiosity with real-world scale (≈1M users). Manu has rotated through CTO, CPO, frontend and engineering roles while co-founding belo and earlier fintech ventures, demonstrating a rare ability to ship from prototype to product and lead small teams. Based in San Francisco, he blends product intuition with full‑stack engineering and a penchant for ambitious, user-focused payments infrastructure. An unlisted detail: his background includes large-scale content/mod work that garnered near‑million views and downloads, showing both developer savvy and audience traction.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Sotware engineering (dropout), Software engineering, Sotware engineering (dropout), Software engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
English, Spanish