Álvaro Freire

Galicia, Spain · CET/CEST

About

I build AI systems that reach production and stay there — agents answering real customers, evals that say whether the thing actually works, and tooling that makes a whole team more effective, not just me.

I got into this because I like problems you can point at: that used to be broken, now it works — and here is the number that proves it. I studied Computer Engineering at Universidade da Coruña, spent an Erasmus semester in Timișoara, and started at Innogando while still in school, when the company was ten people.

Outside of work I organize hackathons and mentor young professionals in Galicia. I like building things and helping people build things.

01Experience

Jul 2022 — Present

Head of Software Engineering · Innogando

Agrotech/IoT — maker of RUMI, GPS collars used by thousands of farmers. Joined as an engineer while still at university, when the whole company was ten people. Today: a nine-person team across product, data and infrastructure, AI agents in production, and a shared AI tooling setup the whole team works with. Still writing code.

2026 — Present

Founder · Trazea

Food traceability and APPCC compliance for hospitality. Built end to end: backend, mobile apps in both app stores, OCR pipeline, site and billing. Favorable technical report from the Food Safety Service of the Xunta de Galicia.

Sep 2023 — Dec 2023

Software Engineer Intern · Avansig

Geospatial data processing and GIS tooling.

02How I work

Measure first

An agent or a model output is not done when it demos well — it is done when it scores well on an eval built from real data. Benchmarks against real photographs, per-task evaluation, and observability from day one.

Context engineering

Most of the leverage with AI is in what the model sees: shared context files, skills, hooks and subagents shaped to the team’s actual repos and conventions — maintained like any other piece of infrastructure.

Boring foundations

FastAPI and PostgreSQL by default. Docker from day one, CI/CD early. Kubernetes on GKE with GitOps via ArgoCD once scale demanded it — not before.

03Community

HackUDC · GPUL

Organized three editions of one of Spain’s largest student hackathons — sponsors, logistics, 200+ participants.

Xuventude Mentoring Galicia

Mentor in Galicia’s youth mentoring program.

Xeración

Coordinated Erasmus+ mobility projects (2023 — 2025).

HackUPC · FOSDEM

Recurring participant — built Wordle League in a weekend at HackUPC 2022.

04Education

2020 — 2024

Computer Engineering — Universidade da Coruña

2024

Erasmus+ — Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, Romania