Jordi Barrera Ars is the Co-founder and CTO of Open Cosmos, overseeing the company’s technology roadmap, product portfolio, and engineering teams.

Bringing over a decade of hands-on experience in the small satellite sector, Jordi co-founded Open Cosmos in 2015 to build accessible, scalable space systems.

Under his technical leadership, Open Cosmos has delivered end-to-end orbital capability across a diverse portfolio of Earth observation, telecommunication, and technology demonstration missions. Jordi manages multi-disciplinary teams across mechanical, thermal, software, electronics and several other technical disciplines, ensuring fast paced product development while maintaining a high reliability delivery and performance across the company’s OpenOrbit, OpenConstellation, ConnectedCosmos, and DataCosmos offerings.

Jordi holds an Aeronautical Engineering degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and an MSc in Astronautics and Space Engineering from Cranfield University. Grounded in technical discipline, he focuses on applying space infrastructure to solve Earth’s biggest challenges.