AI and systems architect. Twenty years designing enterprise integrations across eight countries. Today I build the architecture that lets AI operate inside real companies, not inside slide decks.
Three formal recognitions any procurement committee can verify.
Funds Society
Recognition by Spain's reference business-media outlet.
Selected among the 10 Spanish AI reference figures in the article «Capitanes de la IA · influencers a seguir en 2025», published by Cristina Murgas Aguilar on February 24, 2025. Highlighted for his trajectory in blockchain, middleware and decentralised AGI work.
Source · Funds Society · Feb 2025 ↗
Draper University
Tim Draper's program. AI hackathon at Google. Event at OpenAI.
Hero Training 2023 at Draper University in Silicon Valley. Tim Draper's selective program focused on tech leadership and entrepreneurship. Included participation in an AI hackathon at Google and a generative-AI event at OpenAI.
Source · draperuniversity.com ↗
IEB
Teaching technology, blockchain and applied AI to executives.
Professor at IEB (Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles), Spain's leading finance and management school. Teaches courses on technology, blockchain and applied AI for finance-sector executives.
Source · ieb.es · profile ↗
Most companies are experimenting with AI without foundations. APIs taped together, prompts nobody has versioned, technical decisions made by someone who does not understand what they are building.
The result is predictable: demos that work in the presentation and break in production. The difference between an agent that works and one that does not is exactly the same as between well-designed software and improvised software.
I design the missing layer: the architecture that turns an idea into a real system. Agents that operate autonomously, pipelines that scale, integrations that survive the real world.
The one-liners from clients over the past 18 months.
One hour with me closes an internal debate that has been open for weeks. I review your architecture, your stack or your AI plan and you leave with a defensible direction, not another list of options.
A CTO with an AI project stalled for lack of outside technical judgment.
I audit integrations, pipelines, agents and distributed systems with the same rigor applied at Correos, Severn Trent or the City of Madrid. I do not review code: I review the system around it.
Technical team whose demo works on a laptop and breaks in production.
I design agent architectures that actually operate inside the business: state, observability, security, integration with real systems. The same thing I did with middleware, now with LLMs.
Leadership under pressure to "do something with AI" who needs a technical roadmap that holds up in production.
“I went from 13 hours a day to 2. The agents Alberto designed run rotas, emails, payments and follow-ups. He builds systems that work.”
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Cloud integration broker with mutual SSL authentication, architecture that predated the modern API gateway boom. A pattern that would become industry-standard years later.
Madrid
Support and development at entradas.com, one of Spain's first digital ticketing apps for cinemas. ASP, Java and Oracle. Operational support forces you to understand the whole system by necessity, not by curiosity.
Two years at Primeur working on enterprise integration. Middleware, critical file transfer, service-oriented architecture in its first wave.
2006· 2007
Three years on service-oriented integration architecture. IBM WebSphere MQ, Message Broker, enterprise middleware. The technical foundation everything else is built on.
2007· 2010 · SOA · WebSphere
EMEA
Technical training for the central banks of Denmark and Spain, Accenture, BEC.dk and teams in Saudi Arabia. Middleware, ESB, integration architecture.
Dublin, IE
Three-month engagement on information security at the (now defunct) Allied Irish Bank. Controls review, infrastructure hardening and technical audit.
3 months · Security
Madrid
Founded my first consultancy. Software architecture, software quality and technical consulting services for enterprise clients. First step toward operating on my own judgment.
Architecture · QA · Consulting
Cloud integration broker with mutual SSL authentication, architecture that predated the modern API gateway boom. A pattern that would become industry-standard years later.
Distributed systems · Security
Research and proofs of concept with Bitcoin as a base for enterprise integration. Deliberate application of the "shared database" integration anti-pattern, this time over a distributed ledger, to explore how far architecture could go when the ledger itself is the integrator.
Blockchain · Integration
NXT arrives as the first blockchain with a native messaging layer. Proofs of concept for B2B integration using the chain's own protocol as the channel · a radically different approach from classic middleware.
NXT · Smart contracts · B2B
Spain
Integration that defines the business model through which Correos generates recurring revenue with Amazon. Three message formats handled in parallel (XML, EDI/Edifact and proprietary), where a mapping error means packages lost at national scale.
Business model · 3 formats
City of Madrid
Chief Integration Architect. All external interfaces of the City of Madrid, hybrid cloud architecture, SSO/non-repudiation/encryption and integration with IBM MAXIMO and IOC for 3 million people.
2014· 2015 · Urban architecture
UK
First UK project with TNT Express. The step before Coventry and Severn Trent. Logistics integration architecture with IBM components.
UK
After the TNT project, a deliberate pivot toward blockchain in the UK, right as the crypto ecosystem was expanding there. First contracts and talks focused on node architecture and enterprise integration with public chains.
Blockchain · UK
Coventry, UK
Real-time analytics on the UK water grid. Digital, analog and weather sensors feed an ODM rules engine that detects incidents before they happen. Also implemented the unique household identification system via numeric identifier · operational backbone of the service.
DataPower · ODM · IIB · IoT · Household UID
Lugano, CH
International collaboration on reference blockchain infrastructure. Node architecture, smart contracts and proof of concepts for European banks.
Madrid
Teaching technology, blockchain and applied AI. Digital innovation expert panel. Recognized by the institution as "exceptional talent".
Madrid
Teaching on the ISDI Blockchain master's. Distributed systems engineering, node architecture and applied cryptography foundations.
Technical meetup series hosted at Google Campus Madrid. Gatherings of engineers, financial institutions and companies on blockchain, infrastructure and applied AI.
The Faces of Money
Interviewed on the flagship news program of Spanish public television on digital money, stablecoins and the future of payments.
Academic director of an intensive program with 140 students. Technical curriculum covering development, architecture and applied AI foundations.
140 students
Documentary by Spain's highest-circulation newspaper on the history and future of bitcoin. Technical analysis and strategic judgment.
Talks on blockchain architecture and applied AI. Reference European conferences.
Silicon Valley, CA
Tim Draper's Hero Training. AI hackathon at Google. Event at OpenAI. Immersion in the Silicon Valley ecosystem during the generative AI acceleration.
Google · OpenAI · DraperU
International circuit: Singapore, Helsinki, Istanbul. Panels on crypto infrastructure, digital assets and institutional stability.
Analysis published in Spain's two leading business outlets. Commentary on AI, markets and applied technology.
Recurring appearances as technology, AI and markets analyst. Intereconomía, Myconomy.
Training programs on applied AI for executive teams at IBEX-listed companies and central banks. Technical judgment, not hype.
Recognized as one of the most influential people in artificial intelligence in Spain.
Designed AI agents running the complete operation of a music academy. Cut from 13 hours to 2 hours of daily manual management.
Feb · Mar · AI agents · Automation
Real screenshots and photos from the milestones on the timeline.
TVE · Informe Semanal
Spain's flagship news show · 2021
Merge Madrid + MWC 4YFN
Conference · 2022
Fintech Junction
Tel Aviv · 2019
Google Campus Madrid
Technical meetups · 2019
Each plate documents a real project with technical metadata. No mock-ups.
Stack · XML · EDI/Edifact · ESB
Integration that defines the business model through which Correos generates recurring revenue with Amazon. Three message formats handled in parallel (XML, EDI/Edifact and proprietary), where a mapping error means packages lost at national scale.
Stack · IBM MAXIMO · IOC · SSO · PKI
Chief Integration Architect for the City of Madrid. All external interfaces, hybrid cloud architecture, security (SSO, non-repudiation, encryption) and integration with MAXIMO and IOC for 3 million people.
Stack · DataPower · ODM · IIB · IoT
Real-time analytics on the UK water grid. Digital, analog and weather sensors feed an ODM rules engine that detects incidents before they happen. Also delivered: unique household identification system via numeric identifier, operational backbone of the service.
Stack · Smart contracts · Distributed node
International collaboration on reference blockchain infrastructure. Node architecture and proofs of concept for European banks from Lugano.
Stack · SSL · mTLS · Message broker
Cloud integration broker with mutual SSL authentication, architecture that predated the modern API gateway boom. A pattern that would become industry-standard years later.
Stack · Agents · Orchestration · APIs
AI agents running the complete operation of a music academy. From 13 hours to 2 hours of daily manual management. Agents with state, real integration and observability.
“Alberto is a great professional with very broad knowledge of all integration products. His experience in diverse projects makes giving you a solution straightforward.”
“Broad expertise in his fields and a notable willingness to share knowledge and collaborate in any situation. His work is carried out with the highest professionalism.”
“One of the people I have been most comfortable working with. Not only for his high technical ability, but for his proactivity and great capacity to absorb new knowledge.”
“Alberto is one of the best WebSphere specialists I have ever worked with. Polyvalent and an excellent colleague.”
El País · 2022
15 years of Bitcoin · lights and shadows
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“I went from working 13 hours a day running the academy to 2. Everything that used to take up my headspace (schedules, emails, payments, follow-ups) is now handled by the agents Alberto designed. I've got back the part that brought me here: music and students. He builds systems that work.”
The eight questions that surface almost every time before booking.
The price is a deliberate filter. If €500 for an hour of technical judgment feels expensive, we're probably not aligned, and that saves both of us time. Whoever books shows up prepared, and the session is actually useful.
A consultancy drops in a junior team with a methodology, a partner who signs the conclusions and six months of billing. I give you one hour with the person who designed the systems they reuse. If you want implementation afterwards, we'll talk separately.
If within the first 10 minutes you decide this isn't what you were looking for, full refund. No questions. It has never happened, but the commitment stands.
Yes. If we're working on sensitive information, I sign an NDA before the session. Send your company's template or we use a neutral one.
Both. I've done training and consulting in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Singapore and Silicon Valley. The session runs in whichever language you prefer.
If after the session you want a longer engagement, we scope it separately. I never sell the hour to then sell something else: the hour is the hour.
The booking form asks for context, the specific problem and what you've tried. I show up read in. The hour is for deciding, not for me to catch up.
Yes. A good portion of clients are CEOs under pressure to "do something with AI" who need technical judgment before committing budget. I speak your language.
60 minutes with the technical judgment of someone who has been building these systems for twenty years. You come in with the problem and leave with a defensible direction.