Diego Cid He is from Ourense and has experience in public administration, having worked for Indra a few years ago. In his current position at Imatia, he continues to have projects with them and this has given him the necessary perspective to solve a need in the family.
Procedures with the administration, for everyone: the objective of Tr@mite is to carry out in a single application the procedures we need, in complete safety
And it was that whenever Diego’s brother-in-law needed present papers to the administrationhe had to do it through his sister – since we all know they don’t make it easy (even for those of us accustomed to dealing with technology). For this, it was essential to first have an access method such as Cl@ve PIN, even for something as simple as a certificate that you are up to date with payments.
Before the pandemic, Diego started investigating to try to solve this in the simplest way possible: a mobile application that facilitates this communication with the administration, precisely on the device we all carry in our pockets – anywhere. The Android version came first because there is an FNMT library it could use. However, for iOS – despite the fact that several documents mention it, as he himself says – there was nothing.
Procedures with the administration and its obstacles
Tr@mite allows procedures with hundreds of national, local and regional administrations
In 2018, it launched a first version of Android which included the most important: any identity validation method was implemented thanks to this FNMT library. This means you could use DNIe via the mobile’s NFC, digital certificate and Cl@ve PIN code. The version for iOS is said to arrive in 2021, after Apple released something else about the iPhone’s use of NFC.
Here it is Diego who, with his experience in dealing with the administration and resolving any doubts that arise – let us remember – without library or API by the FNMT – Allows for the first time to use the same validation methods on iOS as on Android, including the DNIe. In iOS it has a very curious peculiarity – for security – that he tells us in the interview.
The app also includes a handwritten signature, although other identity validation options are preferable
With this he managed to launch three applications, although in reality they are all centralized in Tr@mite: this allows us to access a multitude of national, regional and local public administrations – Use of validation with DNIe, digital certificate, permanent cl@ve and cl@ve PIN code from the application itself. In addition, it also allows us to sign PDF documents with DNIe or natural certificate (functionality that can be used separately in your application Business@ – $2.99 per year) or check the status and content of a digital or DNIe certificate – including its expiration date (If you are only interested in that, you have its separate app Valid@ for that).
Procedure: from the rent project to fines or certificates of studies
Undoubtedly Tr@mite is one of those useful apps that can get you out of trouble, focusing more on functionality than design, the app allows us to identify with any method valid today in the administration and navigate between them to get just about anything: draft rent, a school certificate, pending fines, or even our reports or data from each community’s health system.
Diego had never programmed for iOS before 2021 and yet he solved a problem that no application had yet solved
From the conversation with Diego this week, I also learned something important: the interest and the talent to develop something is essential. In his case, before the first version of Android, he had never developed a mobile application. He is a computer engineer with a background in programming, but not in this world. Even so, managed to solve a problem in iOS that no other application had yet achieved.
The conversation with Diego is very interesting, with anecdotes, the history of the development of these applications and even with the opinion of the following who could come to the Apple world and its influence on the future of technology: in the case of Diego, this gives us a different point of view since he is not so involved in the Apple ecosystem and manages to see things from another angle. His conclusions about the future are very interesting, as you will hear in the full interview for this week’s episode.
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