SpaceX Starship being stacked on its booster at the launch tower
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Pau Freire Cigliuti

Mechanical Engineer

Obsessed with robots, rockets & space.

Photo: SpaceX

A totally serious timeline of my life

  1. 2001BornShipped without a manual
  3. 2003First LEGOIt all started hereset?
  4. 2004Birthday LEGO, age 3Instructions? Optionalset?
  5. 2005Birthday LEGO, age 4Stepped on one. Character buildingset?
  6. 2006Birthday LEGO, age 5Built it in a day, played with it for a yearset?
  7. 2007Birthday LEGO, age 6Turning 6set?
  8. 2008Birthday LEGO, age 7Turning 7set?
  9. 2009Birthday LEGO, age 8Turning 8set?
  10. 2010Birthday LEGO, age 9Turning 9set?
  11. 2011Birthday LEGO, age 10Double digits, double the bricksset?
  12. 2012Birthday LEGO, age 11Turning 11set?
  13. 2013Birthday LEGO, age 12Turning 12set?
  14. 2014Birthday LEGO, age 13Officially a teenager. Still LEGOset?
  15. 2015Birthday LEGO, age 14Turning 14set?
  16. 2016Birthday LEGO, age 15Last one before the dark agesset?
  17. 2017Switched to MinecraftInfinite bricks, zero stepping on them. Briefly unbeatableyear?
  18. 2018Built a solar trackerTreball de Recerca. It follows the sun, unlike me on Mondays
  19. 2019Back to LEGO for my 18thLegally an adult, legally allowed to buy LEGOset?
  20. 2019First job at AutimakAssembling machines. Like LEGO, but they pay you
  21. 2022Erasmus in ParisESILV, August to December. Finite element analysis, infinite croissant analysis
  22. 2023Joined ComexiContinuous improvement, including my LEGO shelf
  23. 2024GraduatedMechanical Engineering, UdG. TFG: a 3-axis milling machine
  24. 2025THEKER RoboticsBuilding robots by day, taking them apart by night
  25. 2026Still buying LEGOAdult money, child brainset?

5+ years designing and prototyping automated machinery. Now at THEKER Robotics, focused on EOAT design, R&D and deploying robotic systems: from CAD to manufacturing and commissioning on the shop floor.

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Role
Robotics Hardware Engineer
Company
THEKER Robotics
Experience
5+ years
Languages
ES · CA · EN

Featured projects

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Three-axis milling machine for home useBachelor’s thesis · 2024Three-axis milling machine for home useDesign of a fixed-gantry CNC milling machine aimed at non-expert users, able to machine 6061 aluminium to 0.1 mm accuracy on every axis with a 180 × 140 × 100 mm work envelope. Selected linear guides, ball screws and NEMA 23 motors, calculated the cutting force and validated the structure with finite element analysis in Ansys Workbench, modelling the stiffness of the guide carriages. The design meets every specification.CNCFEALinear guidesMechanical designView project →Finished two-axis solar tracker with its panel and control box.High school research project · 2018Two-axis solar trackerDesigned and built from scratch a solar tracker that points a photovoltaic panel in azimuth and elevation. 3 mm laser-cut and bent sheet steel structure with 3D-printed parts, designed in Fusion 360. Two NEMA 23 stepper motors driven by an Arduino Nano, which works out the sun’s position from an RTC clock. The tracker was built and works.Sheet metal & laser3D printingArduinoStepper motorsView project →

Where I’ve worked

01THEKER Robotics2025 — Present02Comexi Group2023 — 202503Autimak S.L.2019 — 2023
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