43.43° N · 8.24° W — Ares, Galicia

Most of my code ends up on cattle farms in Galicia.

That’s RUMI, GPS collars made by Innogando in Abadín, Lugo, where nine of us build the software. On my own time: Trazea, food traceability for kitchens, not yet making money, and Aurasia, an AI WhatsApp receptionist I’m testing with dental clinics.

Álvaro Freire

Head of Software at Innogando · Building Aurasia · Co-founder of Trazea

2022
Joined Innogando · 10 people in total
2025
From SSH deploys to Kubernetes
2026
Head of Software
2026
Trazea in both app stores
Now
Aurasia live · first tests with clinics

01Built and running

Slack agent

Plain-language questions over internal databases, answered in Slack.

hours → minutesper answered question

WhatsApp agent

Customer support after hours. Hands over to a person when it isn’t sure.

real customerslive in production

Team tooling

Shared Claude Code setup: context files, skills, hooks, subagents.

9engineers using it daily

n8n ops

Lead-classifying chatbot (Chatwoot + n8n) plus a nightly qualification job.

1,000+qualified leads

02Selected work

Aurasia

2026 — in testing

Answers a dental clinic’s WhatsApp when nobody there can, at 21:30 or on a Saturday: it offers real slots and prepares the appointment, and the staff confirm it in the morning. It says it’s an AI.

  • Live in A Coruña and Ferrol
  • Public comparison against 7 competitors
  • EU-only data, deleted after 30 days
WhatsApp · after hours
demo · aurasia.es
  1. 23:47user

    Hola, ¿tenéis hueco el sábado para una limpieza?

  2. 23:47agent

    Hola, soy el asistente virtual de la Clínica Demo Aurasia (una IA). El sábado tengo hueco a las 10:30 y a las 12:00. ¿Te viene bien alguno?

  3. 23:48user

    10:30, perfecto

  4. 23:48agent

    Anotado. El equipo lo confirma mañana a primera hora y te llega el aviso aquí mismo. ¿Algo más?

The agent introduces itself as an AI · staff confirm every appointment

WhatsApp Business APILLM agentGoogle CalendarGDPR
aurasia.es ↗

Trazea

Co-founder · 2026 — Present

Food traceability records (APPCC) for restaurant kitchens: photograph the supplier label and the record fills itself. Backend, iOS and Android apps, site and billing.

  • OCR measured against real label photos
  • Favorable technical report from the Food Safety Service of the Xunta de Galicia
  • Pilot running in real venues
Label photo → record
app screen · trazea.es
Estado
Lote detectado
Producto
Aceite AOVE
Lote
L-2026-0847
Fecha
15/03/2026

OCR reads lot and date from the supplier label · the record fills itself

FastAPIPostgreSQLExpoOCRAstro
trazea.es ↗

CoWtrol

Innogando · 2022 — Present

Internal platform for stock, orders, assembly and support at Innogando.

Replaced 5+ disconnected tools

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03Now

Innogando makes RUMI, GPS collars for cattle, from Abadín, Lugo. The software team is nine people across product, data and infrastructure. What keeps me at it is the gap between a demo and something a farmer, a cook or a receptionist uses on a Tuesday without thinking about it.

Infra footnote: GKE, GitOps via ArgoCD, CI/CD on GitHub Actions.