Barcelona, Spain·From Santa Fe, Argentina

Agustín Pane

I build AI platforms

I’ve co-founded startups, led early-stage product teams and today build AI platforms at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. I love turning ambitious ideas into real products, bringing people together and making things happen.

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Where I’ve worked & built

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

About me

The short version

Right now

Building AI platforms at the BSC AI Institute in Barcelona.

2017

building software

$200K+

pre-seed raised

startups co-founded

Currently learning

Piano and sailing. Next March, who knows.

I speak

SpanishNativeEnglishC2GermanC1PortugueseA1ItalianA1

Studied at

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN)

Information Systems Engineering

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Informatics / Software Engineering

Projects

Selected work

OpenGrano

Agricultural Finance Protocol — Connecting global capital with Argentine farmers via blockchain

Incubated · Avalanche Codebase

Encodes investment terms, vesting schedules, and revenue-sharing directly in Solidity. React dApp for investors, TheGraph subgraph for data indexing, NestJS backend for off-chain coordination.

SolidityHardhatReactTypeScript

TheBadge Labs

On-Chain Certification & Credential Platform

Funded · Avalanche Codebase

Issuers mint credentials as NFTs with embedded metadata and verification proofs. Holders self-custody and share selective proofs via Merkle trees. Includes issuer dashboard, wallet, verification API, and discovery marketplace.

SolidityHardhatReactNext.js

My Smart Home & Homelab

A house that takes care of itself, my favourite hobby project

Hobby

Sensors around the house tell a small brain (Home Assistant and Homey) what is happening: someone walked in, it got dark, a door opened. The brain decides what to do. Next to it, small home servers act as my personal cloud, and AI assistants check every day that everything is healthy.

Home AssistantHomeyZigbeeProxmox

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Journey

From Santa Fe to Barcelona

2013
Santa Fe, Argentina
Fixed computers as a teenager. Then studied at UTN, did my first internship at Carsa and moved into blockchain at ProtoFire.
2021
Karlsruhe, Germany
Research engineer at KIT, building tools for European science infrastructure.
2021 — 2024
Lisbon · Austin · Buenos Aires
TheBadge was born at the ETH Lisbon hackathon. Then came OpenGrano, the Kleros incubation, Avalanche Codebase and $200K+ pre-seed.
2023 →
Barcelona, Spain
AI platforms at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s AI Institute.

📸 With Fer at ETH Lisbon, the hackathon where TheBadge was born

Off the keyboard

Beyond the code

I’m curious and I get bored quickly, so I keep picking up new things. In March 2025 I woke up wanting to play the piano, ordered one online and taught myself. A year later, same month, I did the same with a sailing course.

Piano

Self-taught since March 2025, one song at a time.

Sailing

PER licence (Spanish recreational skipper) since 2026. The Mediterranean is right there.

Home automation

My house is my lab: I install the devices and design the automations myself.

Boxing

Training to switch off after a day of screens.

Volleyball

Team sport, always up for a match.

Barcelona

Home, after Santa Fe, Karlsruhe and Lisbon.

Stack

Tools I enjoy

Platform EngineeringCloud InfrastructureProxmoxCloudflareDockerGitLab CI/CDDevOpsInfrastructure AutomationObservabilityPrometheusGrafanaLinuxNetworkingDistributed SystemsAI Platform EngineeringAI AgentsLLM ApplicationsRAGMCPDeveloper ToolingOpenAI APIsOllamaLangChainLlamaIndexVector Databases