# Dachi Gogotchuri (soydachi)

> Platform Governance Lead at Nationale-Nederlanden España and founder of Arcasiles Group. Builds internal platforms and leads the teams that run them. Writes open-source AI tooling, speaks at conferences, and plays guitar. Based between the Vega Baja (Alicante) and Madrid.

Dachi Gogotchuri builds internal platforms and leads the teams that run them.
His current role is Platform Governance Lead at Nationale-Nederlanden España,
where he helped create the platform engineering team and has organised more
than 70 internal tech talks. In November 2024 he founded Arcasiles Group, a
cultural-tech company whose community holds 1,870 members and 4.6 out of 5
across more than 500 reviews on Meetup. He speaks on platform engineering, AI
governance and DevSecOps, and was a Microsoft MVP between 2016 and 2020. He
plays guitar in Vega Soul Band, JALEO and LA SOBREMESA.

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## Pages

- [Home](https://soydachi.com): who he is in one viewport, what he is working on this month, and three doors into the rest.
- [Projects](https://soydachi.com/projects): everything he has built. Open source, the platform work at Nationale-Nederlanden, Arcasiles Group, and the private products in progress.
- [Speaking](https://soydachi.com/speaking): the talk catalogue, the workshop, and the events he produces.
- [Writing](https://soydachi.com/writing): posts about platform work, platform governance, and agents that have to behave.
- [About](https://soydachi.com/about): the arc, the facts, the recognitions, and the part that is not work.
- [CV](https://soydachi.com/cv-dachi-gogotchuri.pdf): the full curriculum vitae as a PDF. Roles, dates and scope in one document.

## Feeds

- [RSS](https://soydachi.com/writing/rss.xml): posts, RSS 2.0.
- [Sitemap](https://soydachi.com/sitemap.xml)

## Projects

- [ai-engineering](https://ai-engineering.arcasiles.com/): MIT-licensed toolkit that turns any repository into a governed AI workspace. Quality gates, security scanning and risk management run on every commit, across Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor and Codex. The site shows the live GitHub star count.
- [claudeline](https://github.com/arcasilesgroup/claudeline): cross-platform statusline for Claude Code, showing model, context and rate limits at a glance.
- [copilotline](https://github.com/arcasilesgroup/copilotline): the same idea for the GitHub Copilot CLI.
- [pipeline-assistant-mcp](https://github.com/soydachi/pipeline-assistant-mcp): MCP server that reads CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps and GitHub, applies security policy, and posts compliance findings onto the pull request.
- [ai-engineering-workshop](https://github.com/arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering-workshop): a 45-minute hands-on workshop, from install to a merged pull request.
- [Arcasiles Group](https://arcasiles.com/): cultural-tech company on three lines, tech, events and community, with the music side inside events. Rooted in the Vega Baja.

## Talks

Catalogue on [Sessionize](https://sessionize.com/soydachi). Recent stages include Commit Conf and Codemotion Madrid, where he also MCs.

- "Don't trust your AI agent. Trust the gate." Gates and hooks that check what an agent writes, with the same rules across Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor and Codex.
- "I ran a company with 20 AI agents and I'm still alive (for now)." Approvals, kill switches, and what twenty agents cost per month.
- "From DevSecOps to Platform Engineering: platforms as products." Golden paths, enabling governance, DevEx metrics.
- "GenAI in DevSecOps: intelligent pipeline automation." Generative AI writing CI/CD pipelines that pass corporate standards on the first run.
- "Building communities from the roots." How a one-off event becomes an ecosystem.
- "Vibe coding in rehab: an agent that doesn't break production." Hands-on workshop over ai-engineering.

## Writing

- Posts live at https://soydachi.com/writing with an RSS feed. No fixed schedule; they go out when there is something worth saying.

## Elsewhere

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/soydachi)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/soydachi)
- [Sessionize](https://sessionize.com/soydachi)
- [Instagram](https://instagram.com/soydachi)
- [X](https://x.com/soydachi)

## Contact

- Email: info@arcasiles.com
- Based: Vega Baja (Alicante) and Madrid, Spain

## Facts (verified)

- Role: Platform Governance Lead, Nationale-Nederlanden España. At the company since 2017.
- Founder of Arcasiles Group, registered November 2024. The community predates the company.
- Studied Industrial Engineering at Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche; Erasmus at OTH Regensburg.
- Speaks Spanish, English, German and Georgian.
- Microsoft MVP 2016 to 2020. Past, not current.
- Vice-president of the IEEE student branch at UMH Elche, 2012 to 2013, which he helped create.
- Coached boxing in Elche between 2010 and 2013. Past, not current.
- Guitarist in Vega Soul Band, JALEO and LA SOBREMESA.