Bernat Farrero
Founder CEO at Factorial HR
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolBernat Farrero is a seasoned engineer-entrepreneur with 16 years of experience founding and scaling multiple startups, currently serving as Founder & CEO of Factorial and Founder & Chairman of early-stage fund Itnig. He blends hands-on technical chops—demonstrated by open-source work like a Rails-compatible in-place editor—with strategic product and fundraising success, having helped Factorial raise over $300M and onboard tens of thousands of customers. Bernat favors building “crazy simple” products that tackle complex operational problems, and he pairs rapid learning with near-real-time teaching through podcasts and investor mentoring. His track record includes exits (Quipu, Camaloon-adjacent outcomes, and board roles leading to acquisitions) and building distributed teams across Barcelona and the Americas. Known for turning monotonous business processes into delightful, high-NPS experiences, he balances product intuition, developer background, and venture creation experience. Based in Barcelona, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to company-building and early-stage investing.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea specialistica (Erasmus) Specific subjects in International Economics, Laurea specialistica (Erasmus) Specific subjects in International Economics at Università degli Studi di BresciaUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Italian, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (9)
rails10
front-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
html9
rest-api8
api-rest8
css8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bernat/best_in_place
Dec 2010 - Mar 2011
A RESTful unobtrusive jQuery Inplace-Editor and a helper as a Rails Gem
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bernat primarily contributed to the development of a jQuery-based in-place editor for Rails applications. Their work included implementing new features, such as sanitizing HTML input and trimming spaces, server-side validation handling with error display, and populating select input fields using collections. They also bootstrapped a Rails test app to try out the functionality and performed refactoring to transform the codebase into a gem. The user demonstrated proficiency in JavaScript (jQuery), Ruby on Rails, and front-end development tasks.
jqueryrails-gemrestrestful
jrom/IA
Apr 2010 - Apr 2010
Contributions:34 commits in 4 days
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