Summary
Ricardo Campos is a seasoned CTO and software leader with over 20 years building real-world products and a decade of formal industry experience. He currently leads Ábaco, a SaaS used by 30,000+ families across Spain to simplify school communications, activities and payments, and previously scaled products at Modo as CTO. Ricardo combines a product-first mindset with clean architecture and "extreme efficiency," applying practical AI and performance trade-offs to delivery. His background spans mobile-first engineering, Flutter and Android, backend services and teaching, giving him a rare mix of hands-on implementation and mentorship. He has experience in research-driven innovation (DFKI), startups and enterprise environments, which informs pragmatic technical decisions. Based in Alicante, he is known for sharing operational learnings about scaling, architecture and the real-world use of AI in product development.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Engineering Degree in Administrative Data Processing, Technical Engineering Degree in Administrative Data Processing at CEU Cardenal Herrera University
Universitat Politècnica de València
German, English, Spanish, Catalan