Sancho Lerena (Madrid, 1975) is the founder and editor of opguardian. A computer engineer (Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca) with an MBA from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, he started working with technology in 1993 —before the internet reached the industry— and has been building things ever since: projects, companies and teams.

In 2005 he founded Pandora FMS, the monitoring software that launched a career in which he has founded and advised several technology companies and invested as a business angel in others. That journey, spanning more than three decades across networking, systems and security, is what he brings to opguardian: the experience of someone who has had to explain technology to clients, investors and teams, without noise and without hype.

He writes for and drives the magazine because he believes technology does not live in machines, but in what people decide to do with them. His obsession is separating what matters from the noise: explaining complex things in a way that is understood and useful — which is exactly what we try to do in every article.