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Guillermo Rauch | Profile
Profile at a glance
Guillermo Rauch is a software engineer and the founder and CEO of Vercel. His public work spans JavaScript open source, developer tools and cloud infrastructure. He founded Cloudup, which was later acquired by Automattic.
Source verification date: · Rauch’s personal website is the basis for early projects, startup history and the absence of publicly listed education details. A 2026 Vercel announcement again identifies him as CEO and Founder. Dates for early projects are not inferred where his sources do not provide them.
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Experience
His public experience centers on software engineering, the JavaScript open-source ecosystem, developer-tool entrepreneurship and building a cloud platform. No reliable public education record was found.
Career and roles
- Vercel · Founder and CEO
Current role (as reported in the cited source)
- Cloudup · Founder
Dates not stated · Founded Cloudup, later acquired by Automattic.
- MooTools · Core team member
Earlier career; dates not stated · Participated in the early JavaScript community.
- Socket.IO, Mongoose and Next.js · Open-source project builder
Project dates not fully stated in the biography · His biography lists open-source tools and later web development and cloud platform projects.
Public record
- Rauch’s biography says Cloudup was acquired by Automattic and lists open-source projects including Socket.IO and Mongoose.
- A 2026 Vercel announcement identifies Guillermo Rauch as CEO and Founder.
Sources
- 1. About | Guillermo Rauch
I’m a software engineer and CEO of Vercel. I started my first company Cloudup in SF which was later acquired by Automattic.
- 2. Vercel acquires Better Auth to accelerate open source auth
CEO and Founder, Vercel