Summary
Samuel Villegas is a founder and Fractional CTO with 11 years of experience helping startups and scale-ups across fintech, healthcare, sports betting, events, media, and retail adopt evidence-based product and engineering practices. He co-founded a SaaS venture that has guided hundreds of founders and C-level executives through fundraising, market entry, hypothesis validation, and scaling, combining hands-on engineering with strategic leadership. Based in Barcelona, he has served as CTO for multiple startups and currently runs Two Five One EU and a venture builder while mentoring entrepreneurs and teaching at Esade. Samuel blends agile delivery, data-driven decision making, and practical DevOps to modernize teams with thousands of users. A frequent speaker and host, he brings uncommon cross-sector product insight that helps translate market problems into scalable technical roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
altMBA
Informatics Engineering Computer Engineering, Informatics Engineering Computer Engineering at UCAB - Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
English, Spanish, German, French