Iván Álvarez

Iván Álvarez

Senior full-stack engineer based in Valencia, Venezuela. I build the internal platforms teams run on — back offices, design systems, and the tooling around them — and before that spent four years recovering e-commerce platforms, untangling SAP integrations, and rebuilding deploy stories that had stopped being trustworthy.

What I do and how I work

A quick map of the stack I reach for and how I tend to work. The /uses page goes deeper on the day-to-day tools.

Latest Articles

Notes on data, software, and language learning.

Semantichelp — a knowledge base that answers with sources

Semantichelp is a multi-tenant SaaS knowledge base with a RAG assistant on top: teams upload their documents, ask questions, and get streaming answers that cite the passages they came from. Built solo on Nuxt 4 and Cloudflare Workers — and the one thing "chat with your docs" cannot claim: a question the catalog cannot answer escalates to its owner and comes back as a citable document.

ChronoCal: Time tracking inside Google Calendar

A Google Calendar add-on built with Apps Script that tracks real time spent on events directly in Google Workspace—no external backend, no third-party storage, and no browser-side timer dependency.

Fixing GNOME Google Drive Mounts on NixOS 25.11

How I fixed the 'Location is not mountable' error by enabling GVFS Google support and related GNOME services on NixOS 25.11.