Summary
Marc Ruiz is a entrepreneurial technology leader and engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, currently serving as CEO, CTO and co-founder of Place to Plug. He blends hands-on full-stack development (Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Kotlin, Swift) and event-driven architecture with investor-facing CEO responsibilities, having raised multimillion-euro rounds and onboarded hundreds of thousands of charging stations worldwide. Marc’s track record includes two successful exits—an IoT beacon startup and an earlier magic-focused e-commerce venture he founded at 15—demonstrating an ability to turn niche ideas into globally adopted products. He also contributes academically as an associate professor and researcher in distributed systems and security, bringing research rigor to production systems. Known for shipping interoperable platforms (GraphQL APIs, digital contracts) and operational reliability at scale, he pairs technical depth with practical product and go-to-market instincts.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Security Engineering and Artifical Intelligence, Master’s Degree Computer Security Engineering and Artifical Intelligence at Universitat Rovira i Virgili