Summary
Tomás Gropper is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder & CTO with 12 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput systems for retail and fintech in Latin America. He has led engineering and architecture efforts at Frávega—driving omnichannel billing, delivery optimizations and cross-team platform tooling—and now builds a next-gen lending platform at Lenk (YC W22). Comfortable across Golang and .NET ecosystems, Kubernetes, Kafka/RabbitMQ and observability stacks, he blends hands-on engineering with product-driven technical strategy. Tomás is experienced in creating shared infrastructure (sidecars, identity providers, CI/CD) that reduces operational friction and enables multiple production versions simultaneously. He pairs startup grit and YC-backed entrepreneurship with an academic foundation from UTN and teaching experience in operating systems and algorithms.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Systems Engineer Systems Engineering, Systems Engineer Systems Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Technician Bachelor in Constructions Architecture, Technician Bachelor in Constructions Architecture at Escuela Tecnica ORT
Spanish, English