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hey, i'm alvaro

cs engineering student @ university of bath. co-founder of social gravity. i like building things that work in the real world.

what i'm up to:

  • building Social Gravity - the licensing layer for human identity. brands license a real person's face and voice, and every use leaves a receipt anyone can check
  • co-founded MCA Counselling - connecting international students with study-abroad peers across UK, US, and EU
  • balance systems lead @ Team Bath Autonomous Sailing (with DRIFT Energy)
  • project manager @ Team Bath Drones - 19-engineer UAV team for Design, Build & Fly
  • contributing to open source

open source, merged upstream:

things i build with:

PythonC/C++GoJavaBashMATLABSystemVerilog

PyTorchOpenCVFastAPIDockerArduinoESP32KiCad

some projects:

  • agent-os - text your server: phone-driven Claude Code agent on a $6 VPS, with a fail-closed approval gate on spend/deploy/destroy
  • clockwork - a tiny transformer groks modular addition, then the learned circuit (a few fourier features on a circle) is read back out of the weights
  • catena - open, cited, verbatim corpus of the catholic tradition with a citation graph and an MCP grounding layer that cites or refuses
  • deckpeek - self-hosted pitch-deck tracking: time per slide, scroll depth, drop-off, re-opens
  • yt-innertube - fast, cookieless youtube audio and stream extraction for deno (yt-dlp fallback, ffmpeg stream-copy)
  • growing-nca - growing neural cellular automata. in memory of Miguel Angel Blanco

also:

  • competed at BUCS 2026 powerlifting. 582.5kg total (210 squat / 140 bench / 232.5 deadlift)
  • languages: english + spanish (native), german (fluent), turkish (conversational)

alvarobalbin.com · linkedin · twitter

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  3. first-year-projectsfirst-year-projectsPublic

    Collection of early engineering projects from Year 1: includes embedded, control, and programming exercises.

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  4. megamind-ragmegamind-ragPublic

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that turns your knowledge base into a fast, context-aware AI assistant.

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AlvaroBalbin/README.md
hey, i'm alvaro
cs engineering student @ university of bath. co-founder of social gravity. i like building things that work in the real world.
what i'm up to:
  • building Social Gravity - the licensing layer for human identity. brands license a real person's face and voice, and every use leaves a receipt anyone can check
  • co-founded MCA Counselling - connecting international students with study-abroad peers across UK, US, and EU
  • balance systems lead @ Team Bath Autonomous Sailing (with DRIFT Energy)
  • project manager @ Team Bath Drones - 19-engineer UAV team for Design, Build & Fly
  • contributing to open source
open source, merged upstream:
things i build with:
PythonC/C++GoJavaBashMATLABSystemVerilog
PyTorchOpenCVFastAPIDockerArduinoESP32KiCad
some projects:
  • agent-os - text your server: phone-driven Claude Code agent on a $6 VPS, with a fail-closed approval gate on spend/deploy/destroy
  • clockwork - a tiny transformer groks modular addition, then the learned circuit (a few fourier features on a circle) is read back out of the weights
  • catena - open, cited, verbatim corpus of the catholic tradition with a citation graph and an MCP grounding layer that cites or refuses
  • deckpeek - self-hosted pitch-deck tracking: time per slide, scroll depth, drop-off, re-opens
  • yt-innertube - fast, cookieless youtube audio and stream extraction for deno (yt-dlp fallback, ffmpeg stream-copy)
  • growing-nca - growing neural cellular automata. in memory of Miguel Angel Blanco
also:
  • competed at BUCS 2026 powerlifting. 582.5kg total (210 squat / 140 bench / 232.5 deadlift)
  • languages: english + spanish (native), german (fluent), turkish (conversational)
alvarobalbin.com · linkedin · twitter

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Real-time AI camera system for automatic subject framing using OpenCV and deep learning.

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Collection of early engineering projects from Year 1: includes embedded, control, and programming exercises.

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hey, i'm alvaro
cs engineering student @ university of bath. co-founder of social gravity. i like building things that work in the real world.
what i'm up to:
  • building Social Gravity - the licensing layer for human identity. brands license a real person's face and voice, and every use leaves a receipt anyone can check
  • co-founded MCA Counselling - connecting international students with study-abroad peers across UK, US, and EU
  • balance systems lead @ Team Bath Autonomous Sailing (with DRIFT Energy)
  • project manager @ Team Bath Drones - 19-engineer UAV team for Design, Build & Fly
  • contributing to open source
open source, merged upstream:
things i build with:
PythonC/C++GoJavaBashMATLABSystemVerilog
PyTorchOpenCVFastAPIDockerArduinoESP32KiCad
some projects:
  • agent-os - text your server: phone-driven Claude Code agent on a $6 VPS, with a fail-closed approval gate on spend/deploy/destroy
  • clockwork - a tiny transformer groks modular addition, then the learned circuit (a few fourier features on a circle) is read back out of the weights
  • catena - open, cited, verbatim corpus of the catholic tradition with a citation graph and an MCP grounding layer that cites or refuses
  • deckpeek - self-hosted pitch-deck tracking: time per slide, scroll depth, drop-off, re-opens
  • yt-innertube - fast, cookieless youtube audio and stream extraction for deno (yt-dlp fallback, ffmpeg stream-copy)
  • growing-nca - growing neural cellular automata. in memory of Miguel Angel Blanco
also:
  • competed at BUCS 2026 powerlifting. 582.5kg total (210 squat / 140 bench / 232.5 deadlift)
  • languages: english + spanish (native), german (fluent), turkish (conversational)
alvarobalbin.com · linkedin · twitter

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Deep learning pipeline for classifying environmental sounds using CNNs and PyTorch.

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  2. auto-framerauto-framerPublic
    
Real-time AI camera system for automatic subject framing using OpenCV and deep learning.

    Python
  3. first-year-projectsfirst-year-projectsPublic
    
Collection of early engineering projects from Year 1: includes embedded, control, and programming exercises.

    G-code
  4. megamind-ragmegamind-ragPublic
    
Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that turns your knowledge base into a fast, context-aware AI assistant.

    Python
  5. real-time-kalman-trackerreal-time-kalman-trackerPublic
    
Real-time color-based object tracking using a Kalman Filter in MATLAB.

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End-to-end ML system for daily S&P 500 excess-return forecasting and volatility-constrained allocation, featuring feature engineering, ensembling, and walk-forward time-series validation.

    Python

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AlvaroBalbin/README.md
hey, i'm alvaro
cs engineering student @ university of bath. co-founder of social gravity. i like building things that work in the real world.
what i'm up to:
  • building Social Gravity - the licensing layer for human identity. brands license a real person's face and voice, and every use leaves a receipt anyone can check
  • co-founded MCA Counselling - connecting international students with study-abroad peers across UK, US, and EU
  • balance systems lead @ Team Bath Autonomous Sailing (with DRIFT Energy)
  • project manager @ Team Bath Drones - 19-engineer UAV team for Design, Build & Fly
  • contributing to open source
open source, merged upstream:
things i build with:
PythonC/C++GoJavaBashMATLABSystemVerilog
PyTorchOpenCVFastAPIDockerArduinoESP32KiCad
some projects:
  • agent-os - text your server: phone-driven Claude Code agent on a $6 VPS, with a fail-closed approval gate on spend/deploy/destroy
  • clockwork - a tiny transformer groks modular addition, then the learned circuit (a few fourier features on a circle) is read back out of the weights
  • catena - open, cited, verbatim corpus of the catholic tradition with a citation graph and an MCP grounding layer that cites or refuses
  • deckpeek - self-hosted pitch-deck tracking: time per slide, scroll depth, drop-off, re-opens
  • yt-innertube - fast, cookieless youtube audio and stream extraction for deno (yt-dlp fallback, ffmpeg stream-copy)
  • growing-nca - growing neural cellular automata. in memory of Miguel Angel Blanco
also:
  • competed at BUCS 2026 powerlifting. 582.5kg total (210 squat / 140 bench / 232.5 deadlift)
  • languages: english + spanish (native), german (fluent), turkish (conversational)
alvarobalbin.com · linkedin · twitter

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Deep learning pipeline for classifying environmental sounds using CNNs and PyTorch.

    Python
  2. auto-framerauto-framerPublic
    
Real-time AI camera system for automatic subject framing using OpenCV and deep learning.

    Python
  3. first-year-projectsfirst-year-projectsPublic
    
Collection of early engineering projects from Year 1: includes embedded, control, and programming exercises.

    G-code
  4. megamind-ragmegamind-ragPublic
    
Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that turns your knowledge base into a fast, context-aware AI assistant.

    Python
  5. real-time-kalman-trackerreal-time-kalman-trackerPublic
    
Real-time color-based object tracking using a Kalman Filter in MATLAB.

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  6. Engineering2Finance/hull-tacticalEngineering2Finance/hull-tacticalPublic
    
End-to-end ML system for daily S&P 500 excess-return forecasting and volatility-constrained allocation, featuring feature engineering, ensembling, and walk-forward time-series validation.

    Python

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AlvaroBalbin/README.md
hey, i'm alvaro
cs engineering student @ university of bath. co-founder of social gravity. i like building things that work in the real world.
what i'm up to:
  • building Social Gravity - the licensing layer for human identity. brands license a real person's face and voice, and every use leaves a receipt anyone can check
  • co-founded MCA Counselling - connecting international students with study-abroad peers across UK, US, and EU
  • balance systems lead @ Team Bath Autonomous Sailing (with DRIFT Energy)
  • project manager @ Team Bath Drones - 19-engineer UAV team for Design, Build & Fly
  • contributing to open source
open source, merged upstream:
things i build with:
PythonC/C++GoJavaBashMATLABSystemVerilog
PyTorchOpenCVFastAPIDockerArduinoESP32KiCad
some projects:
  • agent-os - text your server: phone-driven Claude Code agent on a $6 VPS, with a fail-closed approval gate on spend/deploy/destroy
  • clockwork - a tiny transformer groks modular addition, then the learned circuit (a few fourier features on a circle) is read back out of the weights
  • catena - open, cited, verbatim corpus of the catholic tradition with a citation graph and an MCP grounding layer that cites or refuses
  • deckpeek - self-hosted pitch-deck tracking: time per slide, scroll depth, drop-off, re-opens
  • yt-innertube - fast, cookieless youtube audio and stream extraction for deno (yt-dlp fallback, ffmpeg stream-copy)
  • growing-nca - growing neural cellular automata. in memory of Miguel Angel Blanco
also:
  • competed at BUCS 2026 powerlifting. 582.5kg total (210 squat / 140 bench / 232.5 deadlift)
  • languages: english + spanish (native), german (fluent), turkish (conversational)
alvarobalbin.com · linkedin · twitter

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Deep learning pipeline for classifying environmental sounds using CNNs and PyTorch.

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Real-time AI camera system for automatic subject framing using OpenCV and deep learning.

    Python
  3. first-year-projectsfirst-year-projectsPublic
    
Collection of early engineering projects from Year 1: includes embedded, control, and programming exercises.

    G-code
  4. megamind-ragmegamind-ragPublic
    
Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that turns your knowledge base into a fast, context-aware AI assistant.

    Python
  5. real-time-kalman-trackerreal-time-kalman-trackerPublic
    
Real-time color-based object tracking using a Kalman Filter in MATLAB.

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  6. Engineering2Finance/hull-tacticalEngineering2Finance/hull-tacticalPublic
    
End-to-end ML system for daily S&P 500 excess-return forecasting and volatility-constrained allocation, featuring feature engineering, ensembling, and walk-forward time-series validation.

    Python

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AlvaroBalbin/README.md
hey, i'm alvaro
cs engineering student @ university of bath. co-founder of social gravity. i like building things that work in the real world.
what i'm up to:
  • building Social Gravity - the licensing layer for human identity. brands license a real person's face and voice, and every use leaves a receipt anyone can check
  • co-founded MCA Counselling - connecting international students with study-abroad peers across UK, US, and EU
  • balance systems lead @ Team Bath Autonomous Sailing (with DRIFT Energy)
  • project manager @ Team Bath Drones - 19-engineer UAV team for Design, Build & Fly
  • contributing to open source
open source, merged upstream:
things i build with:
PythonC/C++GoJavaBashMATLABSystemVerilog
PyTorchOpenCVFastAPIDockerArduinoESP32KiCad
some projects:
  • agent-os - text your server: phone-driven Claude Code agent on a $6 VPS, with a fail-closed approval gate on spend/deploy/destroy
  • clockwork - a tiny transformer groks modular addition, then the learned circuit (a few fourier features on a circle) is read back out of the weights
  • catena - open, cited, verbatim corpus of the catholic tradition with a citation graph and an MCP grounding layer that cites or refuses
  • deckpeek - self-hosted pitch-deck tracking: time per slide, scroll depth, drop-off, re-opens
  • yt-innertube - fast, cookieless youtube audio and stream extraction for deno (yt-dlp fallback, ffmpeg stream-copy)
  • growing-nca - growing neural cellular automata. in memory of Miguel Angel Blanco
also:
  • competed at BUCS 2026 powerlifting. 582.5kg total (210 squat / 140 bench / 232.5 deadlift)
  • languages: english + spanish (native), german (fluent), turkish (conversational)
alvarobalbin.com · linkedin · twitter

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Deep learning pipeline for classifying environmental sounds using CNNs and PyTorch.

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  2. auto-framerauto-framerPublic
    
Real-time AI camera system for automatic subject framing using OpenCV and deep learning.

    Python
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Collection of early engineering projects from Year 1: includes embedded, control, and programming exercises.

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hey, i'm alvaro
cs engineering student @ university of bath. co-founder of social gravity. i like building things that work in the real world.
what i'm up to:
  • building Social Gravity - the licensing layer for human identity. brands license a real person's face and voice, and every use leaves a receipt anyone can check
  • co-founded MCA Counselling - connecting international students with study-abroad peers across UK, US, and EU
  • balance systems lead @ Team Bath Autonomous Sailing (with DRIFT Energy)
  • project manager @ Team Bath Drones - 19-engineer UAV team for Design, Build & Fly
  • contributing to open source
open source, merged upstream:
things i build with:
PythonC/C++GoJavaBashMATLABSystemVerilog
PyTorchOpenCVFastAPIDockerArduinoESP32KiCad
some projects:
  • agent-os - text your server: phone-driven Claude Code agent on a $6 VPS, with a fail-closed approval gate on spend/deploy/destroy
  • clockwork - a tiny transformer groks modular addition, then the learned circuit (a few fourier features on a circle) is read back out of the weights
  • catena - open, cited, verbatim corpus of the catholic tradition with a citation graph and an MCP grounding layer that cites or refuses
  • deckpeek - self-hosted pitch-deck tracking: time per slide, scroll depth, drop-off, re-opens
  • yt-innertube - fast, cookieless youtube audio and stream extraction for deno (yt-dlp fallback, ffmpeg stream-copy)
  • growing-nca - growing neural cellular automata. in memory of Miguel Angel Blanco
also:
  • competed at BUCS 2026 powerlifting. 582.5kg total (210 squat / 140 bench / 232.5 deadlift)
  • languages: english + spanish (native), german (fluent), turkish (conversational)
alvarobalbin.com · linkedin · twitter

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Collection of early engineering projects from Year 1: includes embedded, control, and programming exercises.

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  4. megamind-ragmegamind-ragPublic
    
Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that turns your knowledge base into a fast, context-aware AI assistant.

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Real-time color-based object tracking using a Kalman Filter in MATLAB.

    MATLAB
  6. Engineering2Finance/hull-tacticalEngineering2Finance/hull-tacticalPublic
    
End-to-end ML system for daily S&P 500 excess-return forecasting and volatility-constrained allocation, featuring feature engineering, ensembling, and walk-forward time-series validation.

    Python

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AlvaroBalbin/README.md
hey, i'm alvaro
cs engineering student @ university of bath. co-founder of social gravity. i like building things that work in the real world.
what i'm up to:
  • building Social Gravity - the licensing layer for human identity. brands license a real person's face and voice, and every use leaves a receipt anyone can check
  • co-founded MCA Counselling - connecting international students with study-abroad peers across UK, US, and EU
  • balance systems lead @ Team Bath Autonomous Sailing (with DRIFT Energy)
  • project manager @ Team Bath Drones - 19-engineer UAV team for Design, Build & Fly
  • contributing to open source
open source, merged upstream:
things i build with:
PythonC/C++GoJavaBashMATLABSystemVerilog
PyTorchOpenCVFastAPIDockerArduinoESP32KiCad
some projects:
  • agent-os - text your server: phone-driven Claude Code agent on a $6 VPS, with a fail-closed approval gate on spend/deploy/destroy
  • clockwork - a tiny transformer groks modular addition, then the learned circuit (a few fourier features on a circle) is read back out of the weights
  • catena - open, cited, verbatim corpus of the catholic tradition with a citation graph and an MCP grounding layer that cites or refuses
  • deckpeek - self-hosted pitch-deck tracking: time per slide, scroll depth, drop-off, re-opens
  • yt-innertube - fast, cookieless youtube audio and stream extraction for deno (yt-dlp fallback, ffmpeg stream-copy)
  • growing-nca - growing neural cellular automata. in memory of Miguel Angel Blanco
also:
  • competed at BUCS 2026 powerlifting. 582.5kg total (210 squat / 140 bench / 232.5 deadlift)
  • languages: english + spanish (native), german (fluent), turkish (conversational)
alvarobalbin.com · linkedin · twitter

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Deep learning pipeline for classifying environmental sounds using CNNs and PyTorch.

    Python
  2. auto-framerauto-framerPublic
    
Real-time AI camera system for automatic subject framing using OpenCV and deep learning.

    Python
  3. first-year-projectsfirst-year-projectsPublic
    
Collection of early engineering projects from Year 1: includes embedded, control, and programming exercises.

    G-code
  4. megamind-ragmegamind-ragPublic
    
Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that turns your knowledge base into a fast, context-aware AI assistant.

    Python
  5. real-time-kalman-trackerreal-time-kalman-trackerPublic
    
Real-time color-based object tracking using a Kalman Filter in MATLAB.

    MATLAB
  6. Engineering2Finance/hull-tacticalEngineering2Finance/hull-tacticalPublic
    
End-to-end ML system for daily S&P 500 excess-return forecasting and volatility-constrained allocation, featuring feature engineering, ensembling, and walk-forward time-series validation.

    Python