About
My name is Adrià López.
I am an independent engineering consultant based in Valencia, Spain. I help companies turn difficult technical work into shipped software, clearer decisions, and systems that survive real users.
I have spent more than a decade solving problems with software: working on technical teams, leading them, acting as CTO, offering consulting services, and building my own products.
The public shape is simpler now: you hire me, you talk to me, and I do the senior technical work.
Where I come from
The personal bit: I am another 30-something tech guy, wife and a kid, born near the sea. I dropped out of university, where I was studying physics, to work in tech, which was what I had been doing all along anyway.
I have tried a lot of versions of this job: the computer guy in non-tech industries, a developer in a shop, a lead developer, a CTO, a founder running an agency. Some of it worked. Some of it very much did not. The agency got to 10+ people and over $1M in revenue, and I still burned out hard enough to learn the lesson.
What I do now
I work as an independent engineering consultant. I am most useful around implementation work, technical planning, AI-enabled automation, complex integrations, and the kind of advisory that helps a team decide what should actually be built.
I also build products. Llimera Labs is the studio home for that side of the work: Pdftion, Banco.surf, MockBody, Courses.so, Faitura, RumbaBook, and the occasional smaller experiment. This matters because it keeps my consulting honest. Advice gets better when it has to survive contact with customers, invoices, support, and production incidents.
How I am useful
The through-line is simple: I synthesize messy information, turn it into a technical plan that fits the business reality, and then either execute it myself or help the team execute it without turning the work into theater.
I like right-sized engineering. Sometimes that means custom code. Sometimes it means open source, boring web technology, an off-the-shelf tool, or deliberately not building something yet. The useful answer is rarely the fanciest one.
Credibility breadcrumbs
- More than a decade building and shipping software.
- Past CTO and technical lead experience.
- Led a 12-person engineering team.
- Built products used by real customers, not only demos.
- Occasionally bring in trusted specialists when the work genuinely needs it, without pretending to be an agency-shaped machine.
Keeping in touch
The easiest paths are email, the blog, or a direct intro call. I am on X, GitHub, and LinkedIn too, in decreasing order of how naturally each one fits my personality.