Iago Alvarez received the M.Sc. degree in Industrial Robotics and Automation Engineering from the University of Vigo, Spain, and the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2019.
He started his career at Technica Engineering in 2019 and currently holds the position of Lead Engineer, where he takes technical responsibility for ISO/OSI Layer 2 topics, including Ethernet switches and AVB/TSN, as well as TCP.
Iago has led and contributed to many automotive networking projects, with a strong emphasis on systems engineering. Recent project topics include Ethernet switches and QoS/TSN mechanisms, as well as enhancing their applicability and performance in automotive networks.
Iago is also the co-author of FLYNC (Flexible YAML-based Network Configuration) and currently acts as a Product Owner and maintainer of the project.
Presentation
FLYNC: Configuration as Code for Vehicles and Beyond
Speed-to-market is critical for today's automotive ecosystem, yet modernising E/E architectures remains bottlenecked by legacy formats, fragmented scripts and proprietary toolchains. FLYNC tackles this challenge at its foundation by bringing a true Configuration-as-Code approach to system-level architectures. As an open-source description language and toolchain, FLYNC centralises vehicle topology, interface definitions, deployment and communication into a unified, single source of truth managed natively in Git.
This presentation explains how FLYNC's schemas, validation tooling, and human- and AI-friendly syntax transform system integration. By replacing fragmented workflows with collaborative, code-centric practices, FLYNC enables modular ownership across OEMs, Tier-1s and Tier-2s while establishing the foundation for automated, agentic development loops.
Ultimately, this open-source paradigm compresses integration and validation cycles, delivering the speed, scalability and agility required for the next generation of software-defined vehicles.
