I’m Carlos Prados, a Telecommunications Engineer with 25+ years of experience at the intersection of architecture, performance, and execution. I’m a hands-on CTO and Co-founder who still writes the core production code — because the person who sets the architecture should feel its friction every day.
Today I wear three hats in parallel. I’m CTO, board member and Innovation Lead at Amplía Soluciones, where we build IIoT platforms for utilities, industry, and telecom. I’m also co-founder of de Prados y Bodega and a small portfolio of other ventures. And, selectively, I work as a technical advisor to CTOs, boards, and investors — only on things I can actually operate on.
My day-to-day spans Go, Python, and a deep ecosystem of Java, JavaScript, and — increasingly — Rust. Lately I’m obsessed with agentic AI: autonomous, distributed agents built with MCP, RAG, and the hard problem of turning research into production. I also lead EU and Spanish R&D innovation programs at Amplía.
IIoT platform company. We design and operate large-scale device management, stream-processing pipelines, and cloud-native systems for utilities, industry, and telecom.
Family venture in a non-tech vertical.
depradosybodega.com ↗Selective engagements for CTOs, boards, and investors: architecture audits, IoT/AI strategy, technical DD for M&A.
engagement & process ↗I'm as comfortable in a board meeting as I am in a code review.
Co-founded and scaled Amplía from early-stage to a profitable IIoT platform company.
Board member driving long-term technical and business strategy.
Tech decisions with margin, cash and unit-economics in view.
I close deals. Tier-1 operator pre-sales, technical demos, partner enablement.
Leading EU & Spanish innovation programs. Non-dilutive funding → product.
Built and led cross-functional engineering orgs.
Selective work with CTOs, boards and investors.
Speaker and contributor in IoT, connectivity and agentic AI.
Agentic engineering — autonomous, distributed AI agents as real production systems. Across predictive, generative and agentic AI. Also building OpenClaw.