The unusual arc.

From Madrid to Paris

I grew up in Madrid and studied Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, specialising in energy systems. In 2015, I was selected for an international exchange at École Polytechnique — France's most competitive engineering institution — where I completed an MSc year in Mechanics & Energy. The year ended with a 20/20 distinction on my research thesis and a fellowship from the EDF Foundation and Institut de France that funded the following year entirely on academic merit.

That next year was a Master's in Nuclear Energy at Université Paris-Saclay, focused on reactor decommissioning and radioactive waste management. I followed it with an engineering internship at EDF's nuclear division in Paris, producing a techno-economic business plan for an innovative nuclear waste treatment facility — a study that directly led to an EDF–Veolia industrial partnership — and a research placement at ANDRA — the agency responsible for France's deep geological nuclear waste disposal project. By 2017, I had worked inside three of the four main pillars of the French nuclear sector.

The infrastructure chapter

Still in Paris, I joined EGIS as a PMO on Hinkley Point C — the £26 billion nuclear power station under construction in Somerset, UK. Over 17 months I progressed from coordinating a 35M€ civil works contract to controlling a +100M€ budget package and leading the development of a Power BI monitoring toolset for the programme. Working in a high-stakes, heavily regulated construction environment taught me that rigour and clarity of communication matter more than technical depth when decisions have irreversible consequences.

After a brief stint in BI consulting at kShuttle, I moved back to Spain and joined Red Eléctrica — Spain's national electricity transmission operator and part of the Redeia group. Over the next five years I worked in the grid planning department, becoming increasingly involved in the software and data side of the work.

The software arc

The transition into software wasn't a career change — it was a natural extension. The planning department's work was drowning in Excel files, fragile macros, and manual processes that any decent piece of software could replace. I started building tools to fix the pain points I saw every day.

What began as Python scripts became a full-stack CRM adopted by 20 colleagues. What began as data cleanup routines became an ETL pipeline delivering standardised network models to 40 European TSOs. The scale was different, but the underlying drive was the same: make the work more reliable, more visible, and easier for the people doing it.

Today I hold the Software Architect role in the planning department — responsible for the technical direction of internal tooling, the engineering standards the team follows, and the bridge between domain expertise and software quality.

Outside work

I kitesurf whenever the wind cooperates, climb when it doesn't, and play piano when I need to think with my hands instead of my head. I speak Spanish, English, and French — a consequence of the Paris years that turned out to be genuinely useful.

I'm based in Ibiza and open to collaborate on interesting problems at the intersection of software, data, and critical infrastructure.