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About Knaisoma

An engineering transformation consultancy built on decades of hands-on leadership across industries and scales.

Who we are

Knaisoma is a team of engineers, architects, and technology leaders who have spent their careers inside the organizations they now advise. We have led platform migrations, designed AI adoption strategies, stood up SRE practices, and rebuilt engineering cultures from the inside.

We work with companies of every size, from growth-stage startups scaling their first platform to Fortune 500 enterprises modernizing decades of technical debt. What unites our clients is ambition: they want their engineering organization to be a competitive advantage, not a bottleneck.

Our consultants do not fly in with slide decks and leave. We embed with your teams, write code alongside your engineers, and stay until the outcomes are real and the knowledge is transferred. That is the Knaisoma difference.

Global presence

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Bucharest Romania
Madrid Spain
Belfast N. Ireland
Boston USA

Headquartered in Bucharest and with hubs in Madrid, Belfast and Boston, we deliver engineering transformation and serve organizations worldwide with the reach of a global firm and the focus of a boutique consultancy.

Our values

01

Embed, don't outsource

We join your teams and earn context before prescribing solutions.

02

Metrics over opinions

Every recommendation is backed by data, every outcome is measurable.

03

Build leadership, not dependency

We transfer knowledge so you're stronger after we leave.

04

Hands-on first

Our consultants write code, review PRs, and participate in incidents alongside your engineers.

05

Frugal by design

We optimize for cost-effective architecture because your COGS is our problem too.

06

Candor over comfort

We tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. Real transformation starts with an honest assessment.

Antonio J. del Águila

Antonio J. del Águila

Founder & CEO

Antonio founded Knaisoma with a simple conviction: the best consulting happens when you are close enough to the implementation to spot issues where they originate, not where they eventually surface and cascade into something harder to untangle. With over 25 years of experience across financial services, technology, and SaaS, he has advised C-suites on digital transformation, AI adoption, and platform modernization.

His approach combines strategic vision with hands-on technical depth. He is equally comfortable presenting a transformation roadmap to a CTO and contributing code to validate an architectural decision. Prior to founding Knaisoma, Antonio held engineering leadership roles at Crossvale, recently acquired by Options Technology, the No. 1 provider of IT infrastructure to global Capital Markets firms, and at BY Techdesign, a Spanish firm specialized in the design, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of cutting-edge Access Control solutions.

Antonio holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Universidad de Almería and multiple Red Hat certifications, with contributions to open-source projects in the container ecosystem. What distinguishes his leadership is a rare fluency across registers: he communicates with the same precision whether whiteboarding with engineers or presenting to a board. He carries an instinctive sense for craft, an unwillingness to ship anything that merely works when it could work elegantly, paired with the decisiveness to cut through ambiguity when others are still framing the problem.

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