Summary
Pablo Ruiz-múzquiz is a veteran open-source entrepreneur and technology leader with 13+ years building product-focused companies from Madrid, best known for co-founding Penpot and leading Kaleidos, the company behind it. He blends a physics and computer science background with hands-on product and community strategy to bridge designers and developers through web-native design collaboration tools. Previously he co-founded Taiga and led FOSS business units at Entel, demonstrating repeated success turning open-source projects into sustainable commercial offerings. A curious polymath — an archer, cook and history buff — he brings a no-fear mindset and lean practices to scaling teams, fostering contributor communities, and shipping designer-centric, developer-friendly software.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio
English, French, Spanish