Augustin Bengolea

French-Argentinian, born in Argentina in 1992. Moved to France at 10, grew up in Grenoble.

After high school, I started a Civil Engineering degree. That's where I discovered computer science and decided to make it my career. I then switched and obtained a degree in Computer Science.

After my degree, a year of travel (Argentina, California), then studies and work in Quebec. Back to France and resumed studies in 2018 with a Master's.

I was already using AI to help me code, but in early 2025, I started seriously thinking about integrating it into my daily workflow. Some of that reflection can be found on this site.

1 month · freelance

Engagement for an e-health startup: designed a secure provisioning platform, foundation of an interoperability project.

3 months

Fintech platform (SaaS) specialized for high-risk regulatory sectors. The product aims to offer an autonomous payment infrastructure and unified compliance management (KYC/KYB), ensuring financial flow stability.

• Redesigned signup flow with contextual guidance: dynamic step adaptation based on user profile type, in-app clarification, improving user experience and reducing support tickets.
• Profile modification traceability through complete audit system: validation workflow, intermediate tables for history, visual categorization accelerating triage while ensuring KYC integrity.
• Improved reliability of invoice generation and accounting exports.

9 months · freelance

Intervention on the microservice ensuring connection with the DMP (Shared Medical Record). Management of a complex Scala codebase requiring an external validation strategy to guarantee health exchange compliance.

• Accelerated release cycles with a generic E2E testing framework (Java/TestNG/Allure) integrated into CI, catching regressions early.
• Co-designed Allure reports with PO (logs, I/O files, parameters), trained QA tester to write automated tests.
• Health standard-compliant exchange flows (CDA R2, DICOM, HL7) ensuring interoperability between hospital software and the Shared Medical Record, implemented in Scala (XML parsing, transformations).
• Framework architecture designed for cross-service reuse, beyond initial microservice scope.

9 months

Intervention on two areas of the Disney ecosystem: design of the single entry point for the 'Magic Pass' mobile app (centralizing flows) and maintenance of the internal reservation management application.

• Architected a centralized gateway service (Spring Boot) aggregating internal APIs (Tickets, Hotels) to simplify mobile app integration and enforce secure data access patterns.
• Engineered caching and parallelization mechanisms to meet sub-second latency requirements at park entrance gates for the Magic Pass mobile experience.
• Maintained and incrementally refactored legacy booking back-office (Java/AngularJS), resolving production issues and improving internal operator workflows.

1 year and a half

Intervention on a critical legal compliance application (judicial requisitions). The system handles high volumes of sensitive data and must constantly adapt to new regulations.

• Enhancements to a legal requisition tool enabling responses to external authority requests: new search criteria, data extraction, and report generation on high-volume database.
• Stabilization methodology to unblock a critical legacy application at standstill for a year: paired work with historical developer, multi-phase merge protocol, thorough manual testing, release delivered in 4 months.
• Industrialized delivery pipeline for secured infrastructure without direct access: documented and tooled protocol adopted as standard, validation scripts, progressive automation, ensuring release reliability.
• Built test datasets and provided technical support to validate complex legal compliance scenarios.

1 year · apprenticeship

Evolution and industrialization of the SaaS/IoT platform for Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) monitoring. In a context of high autonomy, I led the technical refactoring to ensure production reliability and developed advanced administration interfaces to manage the deployed sensor fleet.

• Architected a generic sensor payload processing system (Node.js/MongoDB) enabling rapid addition of new environmental metrics without schema migrations.
• Owned the full frontend stack: established a Material Design-based design system and built all user interfaces: decision dashboards (Indoor vs Outdoor Air Quality comparisons), fleet management, and admin tools.
• Designed mobile-first installation experience (step-by-step wizard with QR code scanning) to simplify field deployment, including production tooling for code generation.
• Established E2E automated testing to secure platform reliability as the product evolved.

5 months · internship

Participation in a research project aimed at interactively exploring satellite radar interferometry (InSAR) data. This data allows measuring ground height variations with millimeter precision. The technical challenge was to enable fluid visualization of these large data volumes via GPU acceleration.

• Optimized rendering engine (OpenGL/Python) for GPU acceleration, enabling fluid visualization of millions of data points from satellite interferometry datasets.
• Designed exploration application architecture supporting dynamic loading and navigation through large-scale temporal datasets.
• Developed rendering algorithms (contrast adjustment, color scales) to surface millimeter-precision geological micro-displacements.
• Presented and validated functional prototype before CNES (French National Space Agency) experts.

4 months

Experience focused on CRM solution adaptation. Beyond standard configuration, I delivered value by developing complex missing features via custom code.

• Built interactive appointment booking module from scratch (JavaScript/jQuery), reverse-engineering Google Calendar patterns to fill a critical CRM functionality gap.
• Delivered custom PHP integrations and advanced configuration to adapt CRM solutions to client-specific business requirements.

5 months

Developer within the mobile team. I participated in the global modernization of the native application to offer a more fluid experience compliant with Google guidelines.

• Led full app modernization: redesigned navigation and migrated all screens to Material Design standards for a high-audience media platform.
• Optimized app performance through infinite scroll implementation and multimedia caching, improving responsiveness for content-heavy feeds.
• Built new comments system to drive user engagement and interaction across the platform.

3 months · internship

Participation in the prototyping and creation of the flagship product 'OASIS'. Charged with translating the conceptual vision into a technical solution, we defined the software architecture and ergonomics of the touch control panel which became the core of the current commercial offer.

• Built complete tablet control application for home automation: multi-zone management, scenario configuration, and sensor/camera monitoring.
• Defined UX standards and interaction patterns, translating technical specifications into an intuitive consumer product that became the company's flagship offering.

2 months · internship

Development of the 'Magica Code' application prototype for the Magica Vision startup. The goal was to provide a mobile solution allowing visually impaired people to gain autonomy during their shopping.

• Designed accessible 'eyes-free' interface using touch gestures and Text-to-Speech feedback to enable visually impaired users to shop independently.
• Built barcode scanning and product database lookup module for real-time product identification.

I built a public showcase and a workspace by role: the photographer follows each shoot from draft to delivery, and the client picks within a set limit. File uploads resume after a cut, and the watermarked previews stay separate from the delivered photos.

It keeps track of what the agents did, rebuilds the work threads and writes recaps, and everything stays on the machine. The second version sets its rules from day one: no error swallowed, strict schemas at the boundaries, an automatic check on every change.

I keep my personal apps in a single repository, with an automatic check per module and a wiki the agents maintain.

I keep a library of skills, each one installable on its own with its helper tools. A validator checks the header of every skill before each commit, next to the tests and a secret scan.

You paste a list of students, draw a name, build balanced teams and export the result as a PDF. The names never leave the browser, and nothing is tracked.

Plugins you install with a single command: commands, skills, guardrails on the main branch and on destructive actions. I maintain the catalog with an automatic check on its consistency.

A single repository is the authority for the configuration of my machines, with the secrets encrypted apart. It also holds my command line tools, the configuration of my agents and their guardrails.

The app answers from the browser, with no server and no key, from the open data of the French state: the official sanitary conclusions win, a local computation takes over when they are missing, and a town is rated by its worst network. I added the drought, river and groundwater context.