About
Noe Branagan has over 10 years of engineering leadership experience across companies at various stages. He is currently co-founder and CTO at Ruffo, focused on simplifying cross-border real estate transactions.
Founder at ArgovoxYC S22
Intro paths
YC
Noe went through Y Combinator (Summer 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Argovox's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Noe can intro founders to Argovox's investors below.
Argovox's investors · 1
Co-founders at Argovox
LP
Luis PelleranoFounder
Experience
- Stealth ModeCo-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- Self EmployedAI Engineering Consultantcurrent2025 — present
- Career BreakGap year2024 — 2025
- Ruffo (YC S22)Co-Founder & CTO2021 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- NubankEngineering Leader2020 — 2022
- Self EmployedTech Lead (Consultant)2019 — 2020
- Instacarro.comCTO2018 — 2019
- Instacarro.comHead of Engineering2016 — 2018Greater São Paulo Area
- Instacarro.comTech Lead2015 — 2016
- UdacityUdacity Code Reviewer2015 — 2016
- OrangeLead Mobile Developer2010 — 2015
- BlackBerryBlackBerry Developer Elite2011 — 2013
- Universidad APEC (UNAPEC)Undergraduate teacher2012
- VerizonSoftware Engineering Team Lead2008 — 2010
- VerizonSoftware Engineer2007 — 2008
- VerizonPerformance Engineer2003 — 2007
Skills & more
Software Development66Testing39Mobile Devices41Requirements Analysis22Web Services23SDLC12Telecommunications7Scrum9Blackberry4iPhone development3SDK2J2ME1
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Mobile ApplicationsAgile MethodologiesAndroid DevelopmentTeam LeadershipJava Enterprise EditionXMLJavaSQLEclipseLinuxUnixTomcatLanguages English · Portuguese · Spanish
- Developing Android Apps — Udacity
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Noe Branagan?
- Noe Branagan has over 10 years of engineering leadership experience across companies at various stages. He is currently co-founder and CTO at Ruffo, focused on simplifying cross-border real estate transactions.
- Where does Noe Branagan work?
- Noe Branagan is Founder of Argovox.
- What companies did Noe Branagan found?
- Noe Branagan founded Argovox.
- Where did Noe Branagan go to school?
- Noe Branagan studied at Y Combinator (S22 Cohort); Harvard Business School (Specialization In Leadership and Management); Columbia Engineering (Applied Artificial Intelligence).
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Harvard Business School mafia323
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Udacity mafia43
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Columbia Engineering mafia21
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Shared employers
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Also worked at Orange62
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