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Joan
Noguera

Law student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, specializing in Business and Tax Law, with a year of Industrial Engineering and a season of common-law study at the University of Connecticut behind him. Outside the classroom he sits as a judge and arbitrator for the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation, hearing protests at 30+ regattas a year. He's currently looking for an internship in maritime, corporate/M&A, or IP law at an international firm.

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Law student

Business and Tax Law tracks at UPF, graduating 2027 with honors in Corporate Law, Financial Markets Law, Tort Law, and Competition/IP Law. Currently a student advisor at UPF's Legal Clinic, and spent 2024 drafting procurement tenders worth up to €300,000 for FGC's in-house legal team.

Maritime arbitrator

Judge and arbitrator for the Real Federación Española de Vela, resolving protests at 30+ national and international regattas a year under the Racing Rules of Sailing. Passed the World Sailing International Judge exam in March 2026.

Engineer at heart

Started a degree in Industrial Engineering before switching to Law, and never fully left it: writes Python integrations that pull real-time transit data into Home Assistant, and can read a PLC program as comfortably as a procurement file.

Off the clock

A hearing room with a view of the start line.

Most of what Joan knows about building an argument, he learned on the water before he learned it in a seminar room. As a sailing judge he runs the same kind of adversarial hearing as a courtroom — testimony, cross-examination of the account, a reasoned written decision — except the "scene of the incident" is two boats rounding a mark at the same moment, and the ruling has to hold up to competitors who were literally there. He's heard protests at more than 30 regattas a year since 2023, passed World Sailing's International Judge exam in March 2026, and still keeps one foot in the sport that trained him for it: two years coaching dinghy sailors at Club Nàutic El Masnou (2022–2024), overlapping with the start of his judging work in 2023.

Side projects

Open-source work, built and maintained end to end.

Two small, real tools Joan built, published, and still maintains on GitHub. Neither needs an engineering background to understand — the point is what they show about how he works: take a specific, real problem, and build a precise, reliable solution for it.

FGC Train Tracker

A tool Joan built and maintains that tells users exactly how many minutes remain until the next train at their local station on FGC, Catalonia's regional railway. It plugs into Home Assistant, a popular smart-home platform, so the information shows up automatically on a phone or home dashboard — a concrete, publicly shared example of the same instinct he brings to legal work: taking a real, specific problem and building a precise, reliable solution for it rather than a vague one.

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Barcelona Transit Tracker

A companion project to the FGC tracker: it pulls live arrival times for Barcelona's TMB bus and metro network and surfaces them the same way, inside Home Assistant. Published as open source and distributed through HACS (the platform's add-on catalog), it's used by other members of the Home Assistant community — meaning real strangers rely on code he wrote and maintains. It demonstrates reliability and follow-through: the same attention to detail and ownership of a deliverable that transfers directly to legal practice.