Ramon Garate
Founder at Cord
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRamon Garate is a founder and software engineer based in Berlin who builds coding agents and payment-focused infrastructure, currently leading Cord and Pretzel AI (YC W24) while developing Lumen Payments. With a background that spans engineering roles at Stripe and Klarna and leadership at Root Global, he combines hands-on integration work with product vision for fintech and AI tooling. Trained in mechatronics and industrial engineering (Cranfield University and EHU), Ramon brings a systems-oriented approach to automating developer workflows and payment rails. Though early in his startup journey, he moves quickly from prototype to product and blends domain knowledge across robotics, payments, and agentic software. Colleagues describe him as founder-first and implementation-driven, with a knack for turning complex integrations into dependable developer experiences.
2 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMaster’s Degree, Industrial Engineering, Master’s Degree, Industrial Engineering at EHUMaster of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Cranfield University
Spanish, Basque, English, German
Github Skills (16)
visualization10
mongodb10
prql10
analytics9
data-science9
data-analysis9
sql9
artificial-intelligence9
javascript9
dashboard9
data-visualization9
nodejs9
data-analytics9
duckdb9
business-intelligence7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ramonverse/ramonverse.github.io
Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
pretzelai/pretzelai.github.io
Mar 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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