Rubén Romero
Chief Product Officer at Varnish Software
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolRubén Romero is a business-oriented product leader and Chief Product Officer with 14 years of experience turning technical products into scalable commercial successes across telecom, IT and SaaS. He combines entrepreneurial instincts and deep hands-on experience—from programming and system administration to sales, customer success and community building—to align product roadmaps with measurable revenue and retention goals. Rubén has driven international growth and major enterprise adoption (dozens of S&P500, Euronext and global top sites) while leading cross-functional teams and building repeatable processes for onboarding, support and product-informed marketing. A longtime advocate for open source and FLOSS communities, he has grown developer ecosystems and run global events that translated community feedback into roadmap decisions. Based in Oslo, he also advises and invests in startups, bringing operator-level experience in both B2B and B2C retail channels. Colleagues describe him as a strategist who still digs into the technical details—whether debugging a deployment or designing a sales-to-product feedback loop.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
IT General Sciences, IT General Sciences at Horten High SchoolBenalcázarFree & Open Source Software, Free & Open Source Software at Free Technology AcademyIT General Science, IT General Science at Israel Technical High School, QuitoBachelor of Arts Philosophy Informatics, Bachelor of Arts Philosophy Informatics at University of Oslo
English, Spanish, Norwegian, French, German, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish
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Github Skills (88)
varnish10
high-performance10
caching10
memcached10
ncurses9
sanity9
gdpr9
google-analytics9
reverse-proxy9
http9
webserver9
viewer9
cli8
security8
realtime8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
huayra/nofec.no
Nov 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:87 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
huayra/varnish-wiki
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:42 PRs, 92 pushes, 7 comments in 3 months
wikiin-progressvarnishwork-in-progress
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