Iván Sáiz
Co-Founder & Product Engineer at Avenida
Gijón, Asturias, Spain
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Top SchoolIván Sáiz is an engineering leader and senior software engineer with over 15 years of experience turning ambiguous product needs into sustainable, well-architected systems across web, mobile, and browser extensions. He combines hands-on implementation with product-minded decision making, having co-founded Avenida where he owns end-to-end engineering and explores AI-native workflows to improve clarity, scope slicing, and delivery. Iván has led and scaled remote-first teams through growth and complexity at companies like Remote and Factorial HR, focusing on psychological safety, clear ownership, and pragmatic trade-offs that prevent heroic engineering. His technical roots span Ruby, Elixir, backend architectures, and API design, strengthened by formative 0→1 product builds and a background in teaching and mentoring. He writes about the human side of engineering and actively coaches engineers in system design and career growth, blending people-first leadership with direct expectations. Based in Gijón, Spain, he’s as interested in using AI to improve decision quality as he is in shipping reliable, maintainable products.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science Engineering at Universidad de OviedoUniversity Expert In Artificial Intelligence, University Expert In Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.Associate's Degree (Technical) Certification in Computer Science, Associate's Degree (Technical) Certification in Computer Science at IES Número 1 Gijón
English, Spanish
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dreamingechoes/retrospectivex
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
Phoenix application to create retrospective boards.
Contributions:230 commits, 46 pushes in 6 months
phoenix-frameworkelixirretrospectivephoenix-applicationphoenix
dreamingechoes/docker-elixir-phoenix
May 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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