About

I’m Adrià, a software engineer based in the Delta del Ebro, Catalonia. I’ve been writing code professionally since 2002.

I didn’t start with computers. I spent two years studying Geology at the Universitat de Barcelona. In the first week, the dean told us: most students take ten years to finish, and finding a job after is hard. I enrolled in a night IT course that same week. For the next three years I worked what I could — construction, supermarkets, restaurants, an ice cream shop, fitting aluminium frames — while studying in the evenings. That taught me what real work looks like before I ever had a desk job.

The work

Twenty-five years in software. PHP in the early 2000s, Ruby through the startup years, Go for the past decade. Three times a founding engineer — the kind where you start with nothing and deliver something that runs in production. Most recently I built two full SaaS products solo in about a year, both handed off to their business owners and running without me.

The current focus is AI agents — not the demo kind. The kind that run overnight, process messy real-world data, and need to be reliable.

I’m not attached to any specific technology or way of working. I’ve changed stacks several times and I’ll change again when something better fits the problem.

Where I live

I grew up in Barcelona. After getting married I moved to the Delta del Ebro. A few years later I was back in Barcelona, then London. When remote work became the norm, I stayed in the Delta del Ebro for good. It’s quiet, close to the sea, and windy.

Kitesurfing

Kitesurfing is my main thing outside of work. Once or twice a year I organise a trip around it: Morocco, Brazil, Caribbean, Vietnam, the Philippines, Sicily.

This blog

I write to think. Remote work can be lonely, and the blog is my way of keeping a window open. If something I wrote resonated, say hello.