# Agustín Pane

> Agustín Pane — AI Platform Engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s AI Institute and startup founder (TheBadge Labs, OpenGrano; $200K+ pre-seed). Platform engineering, AI agents and LLM tooling. From Santa Fe, Argentina, based in Barcelona.

In first person: "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."

## Key facts

- Current role: AI Platform Engineer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center · AI Institute (2023 — Present)
- Location: Barcelona, Spain (from Santa Fe, Argentina; previously lived in Karlsruhe, Germany and Lisbon, Portugal)
- Focus: Platform engineering, AI and startups
- Founder experience: co-founded TheBadge Labs (incubated by Kleros) and OpenGrano; raised $200K+ pre-seed; TheBadge was one of the 15 teams in the first cohort of Avalanche Codebase (2024, kickoff in Lisbon, pitch day at Consensus)
- Building software since 2017, often on several remote projects and startups in parallel
- Education: Information Systems Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN); Informatics / Software Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Languages: Spanish (Native), English (C2), German (C1), Portuguese (A1), Italian (A1)
- Contact: hello@agustinpane.xyz
- GitHub: https://github.com/agupane
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agustin-pane

## Now

- At work: Building AI platforms at the BSC AI Institute: AI agents and tools that help researchers work better.
- At home: Turning my house into a smart home that takes care of itself, with a home server and AI assistants that let me know if something is up.
- Learning: Sailing (I just got my PER skipper licence) and piano, self-taught. Next March, who knows.

## Outside work

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.

## Pages

- [Home (English)](https://portfolio.agustinpane.xyz/): profile, current focus, projects, career timeline, skills, hobbies, press and contact
- [Inicio (Español)](https://portfolio.agustinpane.xyz/es): the same profile in Spanish
- [Projects](https://portfolio.agustinpane.xyz/projects): case studies index
- [OpenGrano](https://portfolio.agustinpane.xyz/projects/opengrano): Agricultural Finance Protocol — Connecting global capital with Argentine farmers via blockchain
- [TheBadge Labs](https://portfolio.agustinpane.xyz/projects/thebadge): On-Chain Certification & Credential Platform
- [My Smart Home & Homelab](https://portfolio.agustinpane.xyz/projects/homelab): A house that takes care of itself, my favourite hobby project
- [Full profile for LLMs](https://portfolio.agustinpane.xyz/llms-full.txt): everything above plus the full case studies

## Skills

- Platform Engineering & Cloud: Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Proxmox, Cloudflare, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, Observability, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux, Networking, Distributed Systems
- AI & LLM Engineering: AI Platform Engineering, AI Agents, LLM Applications, RAG, MCP, Developer Tooling, OpenAI APIs, Ollama, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Vector Databases
- Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, Python
- Domain Platforms: Internal Platforms, Data Platforms, Scientific Computing Infrastructure