Technical lead & AI engineer
Imanol Gómez
I turn ambitious ideas into reliable software.
Based in Berlin
I build AI and embedded software for production, with a background in medical devices and interactive installations.
Today I lead AI deployment at CARIAD, part of the Volkswagen Group. Outside work, I build LLM agents, on-device robot assistants and real-time graphics.
- Hands-on engineering
- 15+ years
- Current team at CARIAD
- 12 engineers
- Across disciplines
- AI, systems & creative tech
Selected work
All work
CARIAD
AI deployment for automated driving
Optimizing, integrating and deploying AI models on automotive embedded hardware.
Public role & scope. No internal material.
Open source
Alibi: LLM agents that lie
A murder-mystery game where every suspect is an LLM agent — with RAG memory, tool use and eval gates in CI.
Personal project
A fully on-device AI robot assistant
Voice and vision on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano — nothing leaves the robot.
ProtoPixel
Real-time smart lighting
Firmware and GPU-based generative content for real-time smart lighting hardware.
NELA by Carepath Technologies
Edge AI for remote patient monitoring
NELA Cough: AI tele-monitoring for chronic-disease patients, from requirements to series production.
Open source
CUDA particles: Particle Atlas
Learning CUDA through six small lessons and an interactive particle artwork with glowing trails.
Apr 2023 – present
CARIAD · Berlin
Head of AI Deployment
Aug 2020 – Apr 2023
NELA by Carepath Technologies · Berlin
AI Software Engineer → Senior IoT Engineer
Jun 2014 – Aug 2020
Self-employed · Berlin & international
Creative Technologist
Oct 2011 – Jul 2014
Ars Electronica Linz · Linz
Creative Engineer