Carlos Balaguer

I build software.
From zero to shipped.

I build, ship, and write about software products: from SaaS to AI-powered pipelines and mobile apps.

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About

I build and ship software: full-stack, product-minded, end-to-end.

Tech stack

The tools I have actually shipped with

Next.jsTypeScriptReactPostgreSQLSupabasePrismaTailwindnext-intlNext.jsTypeScriptReactPostgreSQLSupabasePrismaTailwindnext-intlNext.jsTypeScriptReactPostgreSQLSupabasePrismaTailwindnext-intl
OpenAI APIPythonn8nNode.jsFastifyRedisBullMQTrigger.devResendOpenAI APIPythonn8nNode.jsFastifyRedisBullMQTrigger.devResendOpenAI APIPythonn8nNode.jsFastifyRedisBullMQTrigger.devResend
React NativeExpoRevenueCatGoogle Cloud VisionFirebase AnalyticsAppsFlyeri18nextFoursquare APIReact NativeExpoRevenueCatGoogle Cloud VisionFirebase AnalyticsAppsFlyeri18nextFoursquare APIReact NativeExpoRevenueCatGoogle Cloud VisionFirebase AnalyticsAppsFlyeri18nextFoursquare API
Better AuthStripeAWS S3CloudFrontCloudflare R2Telegram APIJavaScriptC#.NETGitFigmaBetter AuthStripeAWS S3CloudFrontCloudflare R2Telegram APIJavaScriptC#.NETGitFigmaBetter AuthStripeAWS S3CloudFrontCloudflare R2Telegram APIJavaScriptC#.NETGitFigma

How I work

Define. Build. Ship.

01

Define

Scope the problem, map the flow, pick the stack.

02

Build

Ship a working slice fast, then layer in the hard parts.

03

Ship

Deploy, monitor, iterate. Real users over perfect code.

Shipped

SaaS, marketplace, mobile app, AI workflows

01

SaaS

02

Marketplace

03

Mobile app

04

AI workflows

Based in

Spain · remote EU-friendly

CETMadridGMTLondonGMT+1Berlin

Case Studies

Products that shipped.

Experience

Where I have been
and what I shipped.

AI Compass

Full-time

Full-Stack AI Developer

  • One of three full-stack AI developers at an international AI consultancy building B2B products for clients across the world. Shipped 2 products end-to-end and contributed to 4 more in 5 months, including the company's analytics platform.
  • Brand Monitor: Brand-monitoring dashboard with company management, role-based access, live scraping progress, and legal-risk signals for trademarks and territories
  • Competitor Intelligence: Fintech MVP — Next.js frontend, Python scraping service, and LLM-based classification of competitive signals from live data
  • Drylock Executive Dashboard: Leadership analytics platform giving a high-level view of influencer-marketing performance across content, influencers, sentiment, channels, and ROI
  • Momentum Partners: HR sourcing and AI-scoring app — improved candidate data quality, location and language filters, review screens, job filters, and search validation
  • YouTube Workflow: Content operations pipeline with asset matching and article generation integrated with n8n
  • @aicompass-ai/ui: Added reusable components and page sections to the internal React component library, with unit tests in Vitest
Next.js
TypeScript
React
PostgreSQL
Python
OpenAI API
n8n
Prisma

WanderEye

Founder · Solo project

Founder & Mobile App Developer

  • Shipped to both stores: Designed, built, and launched a full AI travel app solo — published on App Store and Google Play
  • 100+ users, 9 countries: Reached users across 4 continents (Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary, Ireland, Argentina, Australia) with first paying subscribers within months of launch
  • Core features: Photo-based landmark recognition, AI travel-planning assistant, multilingual audio guides, interactive maps, saved places, and in-app subscriptions via RevenueCat
  • Full product lifecycle: Product design, mobile development, backend, app-store releases, analytics, pricing, and early user feedback — all solo
React Native
Expo
TypeScript
Supabase
PostgreSQL
RevenueCat

Forge Market

Founder · Solo project

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

  • Launched from scratch: Built and launched a digital marketplace reaching 25 sellers and 300+ products in production
  • Seller infrastructure: Multi-step seller onboarding, product management, secure authentication, and file storage with AWS S3 + CloudFront
  • Payments & automation: Automated PayPal payouts, AI-assisted product approval, transactional email flows, and multi-factor authentication with passwordless login and Google OAuth
Next.js
React
TypeScript
Supabase
PostgreSQL
AWS S3
CloudFront

Sabentis

Full-time

Software Engineer

  • ERP Platform: Maintained and extended a production ERP for occupational health and risk prevention used by enterprise clients
  • Feature development: Built and improved internal business features, fixed bugs, and supported ongoing platform stability
  • Engineering practices: Collaborated with the team through Git, Jira, agile planning, and code reviews
C#
.NET
Git

UPC

BSc Computer Engineering

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

  • Degree: BSc in Computer Engineering — specialization in Software Engineering
  • Bachelor's thesis (9/10): Complete UI redesign of ePrivo, a web-tracking privacy observatory developed by UPC — available at eprivo.eu
  • Erasmus · Sapienza (Feb – Jul 2023): Exchange semester at Sapienza Università di Roma — Applied Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
JavaScript
React
Python
Figma

About Me

Building products,
not pitches.

Software has always been a way to build things and put them in front of people. Over the years that has meant my own products, client work at an AI consultancy, marketplaces, mobile apps, AI pipelines. Some things reached users in 9 countries. Others taught me more by failing than by succeeding. The common thread is that things tend to get to production.

My stack centres on TypeScript, React, Next.js, and PostgreSQL. AI is genuinely woven into how I build now: not as a finishing touch, but as a practical layer in pipelines, background jobs, and user-facing features. I reach for it where it simplifies something that would otherwise be hard.

What I enjoy most is the full arc of a product: the early decisions that are hard to undo, the messy build phase, and eventually watching someone use the thing you made. That last part never gets old.

Carlos Balaguer

Open to Work

Let's talk if you are
building something real.

I am currently looking for full-time product/software engineering roles where shipping, product judgment, and AI-assisted workflows matter.

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