I work on the systems between the drawings and reality: utility-scale solar, battery storage, power electronics, commissioning, field operations, and the technical problems that appear when complex infrastructure actually has to work.
Most of my career has been spent where engineering, operations, troubleshooting, customers, and project execution overlap.
LATNOVVA
Technical Operations
Strategic technical advisory and field operations across utility-scale Solar PV and BESS. The work bridges engineering design, EPC execution, and long-term asset reliability—helping project owners and operators ensure complex electrical systems perform reliably under real operating conditions.
Sungrow Power
Field Engineering to CoE
A five-year progression from hands-on field commissioning to regional engineering leadership. I started in the field commissioning central inverters and battery storage across Latin America, personally delivering site acceptance testing for over 800 MW of PV and early BESS installations.
That foundation evolved into leading the regional Field Service organization across North LATAM, supporting a fleet of more than 2.1 GW of operating solar assets and approximately 60 MWh of BESS. Later, I established the LATAM Center of Expertise (CoE), centralizing tier-3 investigations directly with HQ R&D and building technical certification programs for engineers across the region.
Field Foundation
Asset Mgmt & Electronics
Before focusing full-time on utility renewables, I managed a 400+ MW solar asset portfolio at Vector Renewables, monitoring SCADA performance and plant availability.
My earlier background spans wireline operations in oil and gas in Argentina and Venezuela (YPF S.A., Schlumberger) and embedded control systems design (Corpodomotica). Working in high-consequence field environments early on built the operational discipline I rely on today: measure directly, respect thermal and electrical boundaries, and design for maintainability.
Real infrastructure delivered across solar PV, battery storage, and power conversion.
Utility-scale central inverter commissioning and technical acceptance
Commissioning, site acceptance testing (SAT), inverter parameterization, and technical support from energization through commercial acceptance on a 358 MW utility-scale solar project.
Inverter station commissioning and grid code acceptance
Commissioning, parameterization, and technical acceptance testing across 234 MW of central inverter stations in central Mexico.
Utility-scale battery energy storage system and power conversion commissioning
Commissioning, safety validation, and power conversion system (PCS) integration for a 12.5 MW / 24 MWh battery energy storage facility.
Field Engineering ToolHub · Offline-capable
Turning field experience into repeatable tools: an offline-capable engineering suite built from years of commissioning, root cause analysis, and field troubleshooting.
Self-hosted infrastructure, hardware prototyping, automation, and electronics.
Learning systems by building and operating them.
My homelab is where I experiment with servers, Docker, networking, automation, and self-hosted services—giving older hardware a useful second life and proving use cases before investing in dedicated infrastructure.
What started as an unused 2013 ASUS VivoPC brought out of retirement to experiment with self-hosted n8n and automation has expanded into a 24/7 learning environment for Docker, Linux, and household services. The public website itself is served via Cloudflare Pages from GitHub, preserving clean separation between public web infrastructure and private experimentation.
Practical experiments with local LLM inference, agentic tool-use loops, and technical knowledge retrieval to index multi-hundred-page equipment manuals and inverter register maps without cloud leakage.
Lightweight offline-first progressive web apps, calculators, and automation scripts built to eliminate friction and calculate deratings on site in remote substations without cellular service.
Things worth documenting: field observations, homelab architecture, and engineering principles.
Reflections on utility-scale solar and BESS commissioning: why theoretical designs diverge from field realities, and how disciplined procedures save projects.
The architectural considerations behind serving aprovero.org via Cloudflare Pages and separating public edge traffic from local homelab experiments.
On the deliberate inefficiency of building hardware, homelabs, and software tools from scratch to preserve deep understanding.
If you want to talk about engineering, energy infrastructure, technical operations, technology, or something interesting enough to build, feel free to reach out.
