Álvaro Freire

Ares, Galicia · CET/CEST

About

I write software for a living, and I build products alongside that. Since July 2022 the day job has been Innogando, an agrotech company in Abadín, Lugo, where I started as an engineer and have run the software team since 2026. The products are Trazea, which I co-founded, and Aurasia.

I’m 24, based in Ares on the Galician coast. I studied Computer Engineering at Universidade da Coruña, spent an Erasmus semester in Timișoara, and joined 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

2026 — Present

Head of Software · Innogando

Innogando makes RUMI, GPS collars used by thousands of farmers, from Abadín, Lugo. I run the software team: nine people across product, data and infrastructure. The agents, the evals and the shared Claude Code setup on the Work page come from this period.

Jul 2022 — 2026

Engineer · Innogando

Joined in July 2022 while still at university, when the whole company was ten people. Built CoWtrol, the internal platform behind the operation; took the infrastructure from SSH deploys to Kubernetes on GKE with GitOps; shipped the first agents and evals.

2026 — Present

Aurasia

Building an AI WhatsApp receptionist for dental clinics in A Coruña and Ferrol: it answers outside business hours, proposes real slots, and hands every appointment to the staff to confirm. Live at aurasia.es — being tested with dental clinics.

2026 — Present

Co-founder · Trazea

Food traceability and APPCC records for hospitality kitchens. 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. Live, not making money yet.

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 what an AI tool does well or badly depends on 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 HackUDC, the student hackathon in A Coruña: 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