# Alejandro Buján

> Engineer from Melide (Galicia, Spain), based in San Francisco. AI Lead at Base10 Partners and Exponential-Barrié Fellow. Interested in intelligent technologies, computer graphics and entrepreneurship.

Site: https://alejandrobujan.com · Email: hi@alejandrobujan.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandrobujan/ · GitHub: https://github.com/alejandrobujan · X: https://x.com/alejandr0bujan

## Now
- AI Lead at Base10 Partners (venture capital firm, San Francisco), May 2026 – present. Building AI-native tooling for venture investing workflows.
- Exponential-Barrié Fellow, 2026. The Exponential Fellowship (Fundación Barrié) is a high-performance excellence program that selects top STEM graduates and technical professionals in Spain and places them as engineers at top-tier Silicon Valley companies, with visa sponsorship. Evidence: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7500594634780295168/
- MS in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology, specialization in Artificial Intelligence, 2026 – present (in parallel with the Base10 role).
- Creator of Tendedero, an open source macOS app launched in October 2026 (about 1 million views of the launch post, 1,500 GitHub stars in three days, 12,000 downloads in ten days). https://tendedero.app

## Achievements, ordered by merit and difficulty

### 1. Selective programs (national-level selection)
- The Exponential Fellowship (Fundación Barrié), 2026. Selective program for the top Spanish STEM talent; grants employment as an engineer at top-tier Silicon Valley companies.
- Fulbright Master's Scholarship, 2026, awarded and declined by choice. Highly competitive, merit-based funding granted by the Selection Committee on academic excellence, leadership potential and an impactful project (up to $45,000 per year plus insurance and travel).

### 2. Top distinctions
- Extraordinary Bachelor's Degree Award, University of A Coruña, 2025. The highest possible university-wide distinction of each cohort, for the whole BEng in Computer Science.
- First Prize, InditexTech Track, HackUPC 2025. HackUPC is the largest hackathon in Spain and the largest student hackathon in Europe (700+ participants, 30+ countries). Project: Echolook, an AI-powered virtual fitting room. https://devpost.com/software/echolook
- Best Tool Presentation Award at ECSA 2024 / SPLC 2024 (ACM international conferences), for the tool developed in the bachelor's thesis.

### 3. Professional
- AI Lead at Base10 Partners (San Francisco), building AI-native tooling for venture investing workflows.
- Full-stack Developer at Invofox (Y Combinator S22), Sep 2024 – Apr 2026, working directly with the founders of an AI startup.

### 4. Academic record
- Honour grades (matrícula de honor) in 20 courses of the BEng, including the bachelor's thesis (10).
- Exchange at Hanyang University (Seoul), 2022, with distinction grades in four courses. Funded by a bilateral mobility scholarship in which he was ranked first among all applicants of the university.
- Graduated with honours from both vocational programs at IES San Clemente; second place in the regional extraordinary awards for higher-level vocational education (Galicia, 2021).

### 5. Other awards and competitions
- Best Open Licensed BSc/MSc Thesis in Galicia (Amtega / CIXUG), 2024, for the bachelor's thesis behind the ACM award (1500 €).
- Best Applied Bachelor's Thesis, second prize, School of Computer Science, University of A Coruña, 2024 (500 €).
- Bronze medal, WorldSkills Spain 2019 (national), Network Systems Administration, representing Galicia.
- Gold medal, WorldSkills Galicia 2018 (regional), Network Systems Administration, qualifying for the national final.

### 6. Open source product with public reach
- Tendedero (https://tendedero.app), October 2026: a free, open source macOS app he designed and built. Its launch post on X reached about 1 million views, 14,200 likes, 6,300 bookmarks and 1,200 reposts within three days, and the GitHub repository passed 1,500 stars and 120 forks in the same period (as of October 10, 2026). It was downloaded about 12,100 times in its first ten days, counting release downloads and repository clones (as of October 17, 2026). On launch day, October 7, 2026, Trendshift ranked it the #2 Swift repository of the day, and #7 of the week in its launch week. Covered in the press by MacGeneration (France), Mac Otakara (Japan) and El Nacional (Spain). Evidence: https://x.com/alejandr0bujan/status/2107726966304690416 · https://github.com/alejandrobujan/tendedero · https://trendshift.io/repositories/287033 · https://www.macg.co/logiciels/2026/10/avec-tendedero-les-captures-decran-du-mac-sechent-sur-une-corde-linge-311501 · https://www.macotakara.jp/software/entry-52022.html · https://www.elnacional.cat/es/tecnologia/crean-app-mac-cuelga-tus-capturas-pantalla-en-tendedero-arriba-pantalla_1708747_102.html

### 7. Research, publication and fellowships
- Peer-reviewed publication: "Development of a PLE Factory Environment with GitLab Integration and following ISO/IEC 26580", SPLC '24 (ACM), Luxembourg. https://doi.org/10.1145/3646548.3678013
- Three merit-based research fellowships during the stay at CITIC (2022 – 2024): Open Source Scientific Thesis Grant (CICAS Chair, one of only four students in the university, 2024), Collaboration Scholarship of the Spanish Ministry of Education (national, 2023) and Collaboration Scholarship of the University of A Coruña (2022).
- CiTIUS Summer Research Fellowship, 2023: merit-based one-month research stay at the Singular Research Centre in Intelligent Technologies of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Open call to undergraduates from any university, Spanish or foreign, ranked primarily on academic record; one of 14 fellows selected in the ninth edition.

## Projects
### Highlighted
- Tendedero (https://tendedero.app), October 2026. A free, open source macOS app that hangs every screenshot on a thin line just above the screen: rest the pointer in the menu bar and the line glides down; click to copy, hold to mark up, drag into any app or folder. Native Swift, AppKit and SwiftUI; signed and notarized by Apple; no network access. Launched on October 7, 2026: the launch post on X reached about 1 million views, 14,200 likes, 6,300 bookmarks and 1,200 reposts within three days, and the GitHub repository passed 1,500 stars and 120 forks in the same period, and it was downloaded about 12,100 times in its first ten days, releases and clones together (as of October 17, 2026); on launch day Trendshift ranked it the #2 Swift repository of the day, and #7 of the week in its launch week; it was covered by MacGeneration (France), Mac Otakara (Japan) and El Nacional (Spain). Six releases in four days, contributions and translations from the community, and a website that is itself a working demo in English, Spanish, Galician, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese. Source: https://github.com/alejandrobujan/tendedero · Launch post: https://x.com/alejandr0bujan/status/2107726966304690416 · Press kit: https://tendedero.app/press/ · Details for agents: https://tendedero.app/llms.txt

### Other projects
- ECHOLOOK (https://devpost.com/software/echolook), 2025. The AI-powered fitting room in your pocket: snap a photo, say what you want, and see Inditex styles on you in seconds. First Prize, InditexTech Track, HackUPC 2025.
- SPLALM (https://gitlab.lbd.org.es/alejandro.bujan.pampin/splalm). A tool designed to manage Software Product Lines and the development lifecycle of products generated from them.
- DBSW Battle Arena (https://github.com/alejandrobujan/dbsw-battle-arena · https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/10080/). Fan romhack of Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 for Nintendo DS: a pure fighting version with new characters to unlock.

## Experience
- Full-stack Developer, Invofox (Y Combinator S22), Sep 2024 – Apr 2026. AI startup; full-stack development with the MERN stack in direct collaboration with the founders.
- SWE Research Intern (part-time), CITIC, Nov 2022 – Jul 2024. Three merit-based fellowships; built a Product Line Engineering Development Factory integrated with GitLab (Quasar, Vue.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Cypress).
- Software Development Intern, Learnovate Centre, Jun – Aug 2021. Moodle plugin for engagement in online learning; Moodle deployment and management.
- Helpdesk and Data Center Support Intern, Teleperformance, Apr – Jun 2018. Active Directory, MDT imaging, remote support in Portuguese and English for clients such as Google, Facebook and Netflix.
- General Judge (volunteer), HackSpain 2026, September 2026. https://hackspain.com/

## Education
- BEng in Computer Science, University of A Coruña, 2020 – 2024. Extraordinary Bachelor's Degree Award.
- Exchange in Computer Science, Hanyang University (Seoul), Feb – Jul 2022. Distinction grades in four courses.
- Higher Technician in Multi-platform Application Development, IES San Clemente, 2018 – 2020. Graduated with honours; second place in the regional extraordinary vocational awards.
- Technician in Microcomputer Systems and Networks, IES San Clemente, 2016 – 2018. Graduated with honours; Erasmus+ in Lisbon.

## Recommendations
- Pablo Álvarez Castro, Technical Leader at Learnovate Centre: "outstanding technical and interpersonal skills … far exceeded my expectations".
- Tiago Seixas, Information Security Professional at Siemens: "very focused on achieving the proposed goals and a great team spirit".

## Pages
- Home: https://alejandrobujan.com/
- Awards (8): https://alejandrobujan.com/awards/
- Merit-based scholarships (8): https://alejandrobujan.com/scholarships/
- Full text version: https://alejandrobujan.com/llms-full.txt
- Tendedero, his macOS app: https://tendedero.app/ (summary for agents: https://tendedero.app/llms.txt)