Engineer · Barcelona
I turn ideas into machines, and machines into business.
Business Development Manager at Applus+ Gometrics.
Engineer in Barcelona.
* Research cited by Fundación NAPP and 10Minds.
It began with robotics: at school I won a robotics olympiad with a robot I built.
In 2011 I won a gold medal in C++ programming.
That September I was a finalist in Informatics at the 1st Plurinational Student Science Olympiad of Bolivia (Ministry of Education), in Trinidad, Beni.
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With friends I built a two-player racing game with magnetically levitated carts, in Arduino and Java, for the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, DC.
The festival's Certificate of Appreciation reads: 'for designing and showcasing a stellar engineering exhibit at the 2014 USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, DC'. Awarded 19 June 2014.
Exhibitor at the USA Science & Engineering Festival, Washington, DC, April 2014. On the same floor: NASA, Lockheed Martin, MIT and Harvard.
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I built a 3D printer that makes custom chocolate designs.
Pani's Xocolatl, 2017 to 2018, for the course Rapid Prototyping in Automatic Control at Universidad Católica Boliviana.
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A hybrid solar vehicle. I designed it and built it with my team, Panis.
We raced the third Grand Prix Solar in 2018, one of five teams.
In all, the Anton covered more than 600 km across Bolivia.
Three of us, friends, started a robotics tournament in Bolivia in 2017. I have been there from the first day, as organiser and as judge.
Today it is the largest robotics event in the country, and Bolivia sends a team to the FIRST Global Challenge.
In 2019 I was organiser and judge at the final of the 2nd National Robotics Tournament, Bolivia Robotics 2019, in Sucre.
According to research cited by Fundación NAPP and 10Minds, it has reached more than 30,000 young people directly and nearly 400,000 Bolivians indirectly. It was presented as a national strategy at the Casa Grande del Pueblo.
It has the highest social return on investment of any technology project in Bolivia, as verified with the Government of Bolivia.
Bolivia's team: 3rd in the world at the FIRST Global Challenge 2023, Singapore. 4th in Geneva, 2022.
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I did my MBA at Esade from 2022 to 2024, with the Latin American Business Award scholarship.
Esade's Full-Time MBA is 7th in the world in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2026.
A solar water purifier for communities in Bolivia without safe drinking water.
I co-founded Aqualum with my brother Kevin, who built the prototype. It was my project inside the Esade MBA.
My family runs Chocolates Sucre in Bolivia. A family tradition since 1965. It keeps me honest about what quality means when your name is on the product.
In October 2024 it was named company of the year in the industrial sector at FEXPO Sucre.
An R&D project I started at Applus+ Gometrics, on my own initiative: a new housing for the RTMS, Gometrics' reference temperature monitor.
Bent sheet metal around 3D printed ABS trays, an 8 inch screen on the front and the connectors on top. 241 × 284 × 151 mm.
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I am Business Development Manager at Applus+ Gometrics in Barcelona. I have been with the company since 2024.
I do technical sales and business development for flow measurement, calibration and validation. My customers work in pharma, biotech, food and industrial research.
I am the technical reference for Brooks Instrument in Spain, and I also work with Kambič.
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