Tech Lead, Platform & Architecture at IriusRisk. Santander, Spain.
I work on the layer other teams build on top of: distributed systems, auth, event-driven architecture, performance, and the infrastructure that has to keep running while the product around it changes. Most of that work lives behind enterprise walls, so what you see here is mostly side projects.
A side project of mine usually dies the day I lose interest in it. I started using AI agents as a delivery mechanism so they reach a usable state instead of stalling at 60%. The repos below are the result of that method as much as the thing they build.
What I've worked on (the parts that aren't public): a Kafka ingestion platform handling billions of events a month, a WebSocket event layer that replaced DB polling and got adopted across five product teams, a three-layer event driven system for high-availability environments, and the auth and standardization for a greenfield API with 600+ endpoints.
- liftoff-flight-analyzer — coach and report generation for drone FPV flying using Liftoff simulator.
- ai-sandbox — disposable containers that run coding agents with the container as the trust boundary, driven from my phone over mTLS.
- project-builder — a workspace that turns requirements into working software through a small team of specialized agents.
- yt-dlp-ui — cross-platform desktop UI for yt-dlp.
- java-class-call-scanning — static analysis that maps full call hierarchies in a Java codebase.
- THREDDSExplorer — QGIS plugin for accessing and visualizing meteorological data. Older work, still in use.
- RaspberryRemoteCar — remote-controlled car with a live video feed on a Raspberry Pi.
- LinkedIn: in/haroldhormaechea
- Email: harold.hormaechea@gmail.com