Engineer / Entrepreneur / Product Builder
Alvaro Villalba
Engineer, entrepreneur, and product builder working across AI systems, startups, applied intelligence, multi-agent systems, interfaces, design, execution, and portable knowledge.
Experience
Co-Founder, CEO
Clous
Sep 2023 - Present
Building a multi-surface AI platform and operating system for teams, spanning agents, memory, evals, integrations, CLI, API, webhooks, Slack, Teams, iOS, desktop, and Chrome.
- Shape product direction, agent workflows, evaluation surfaces, and engineering execution across the company.
- Work across platform architecture, product design, go-to-market, customer development, and quality systems.
Co-Founder
Sentyl
2023
Co-founded an AI agency helping companies become AI-first through applied workflows, automation, and productized intelligence.
- Designed AI-first operating workflows and shipped practical automation for business teams.
- Used client conversations to sharpen the path toward Clous and broader agent infrastructure.
Deputy CTO
Orygen
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Joined a ClimateTech startup and worked across technical roadmap, technology supplier relationships, and financial model development.
Engineering Intern
JP Alcaraz
Summer 2019 and 2020
Supported maintenance and repair of naval electronics from multiple suppliers while working on projects connected to the Ministerio de Defensa.
Projects
Open Evals
Independent project
AI evaluation platform
Provider-independent evals and prompt self-improvement platform for runs, benchmarks, scenarios, and instruction iteration.
Agentic FileSystem Standard
Independent project
Portable agent context
A file-system standard for durable agent knowledge, reusable context, and project memory that can move across runtimes.
Intelligent Visualization
Independent project
Interactive documents
Interactive visual document platform for courses, slide decks, reports, and richer learning surfaces.
Before the Launch
Independent project
Product perception simulator
Local-first simulator for reviewing products before launch through agentic perception, critique, and iteration workflows.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
2018 - 2023
Studied aerospace systems, thermodynamics, aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and technical engineering foundations.
Operating Surface
AI Systems
Applied intelligence and multi-agent products
Current focus
Designing systems where specialized agents retrieve context, critique outputs, evaluate quality, use tools, and execute useful work.
Product Building
Interfaces, workflows, and execution
Current focus
Turning ambiguous user pain into clear product surfaces, operating rhythms, quality bars, and practical shipping loops.
Founder Craft
Startups and market learning
Current focus
Combining product, sales, design, engineering, and customer development into concrete momentum.