Alvaro Villalba

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.