Engineering

Architecture & engineering for AI and data platforms

I work with companies building something substantial: complete AI platforms, data infrastructure, critical software products, and complex internal tools — from architecture decisions to systems running in production.

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Types of project

End-to-end AI platforms

LLM, RAG, and agent systems designed for production: architecture, evaluation, cost, reliability, and the product around the model.

Data infrastructure

Pipelines, streaming, validation, and data platforms that scale — the foundation every serious AI system stands on.

ML systems & MLOps

Reproducible training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining — the full operation that keeps models useful after launch.

Product & platform architecture

Service design, plugin systems, APIs, and the trade-offs that decide how far a product can grow. I also lead architecture decisions alongside your team.

Applied optimization

AutoML, evolutionary algorithms, forecasting, and scheduling — the specialty behind my open-source libraries, applied to real business problems.

AI strategy & design

Defining the AI strategy before writing code: where it actually fits, prioritized use cases, a roadmap, and the high-level architecture decisions that keep you from building the wrong thing.

How I work

  1. Architecture definition: assets, constraints, trade-offs, and a design your team can sustain.
  2. Phased construction: a system running in production early, with explicit metrics and criteria.
  3. Real handoff: documentation, recorded decisions, and a team able to operate and evolve the platform.

Evidence, not promises

The engineering I offer is published and verifiable: Ciaren, an open-core visual workflow builder; open-source libraries widely adopted by the community (sklearn-genetic-opt, PyWorkforce), with public documentation and releases; and years of building production ML systems for companies.

Ciaren
sklearn-genetic-opt
PyWorkforce
AI Platforms
Data Engineering
MLOps
Architecture
Python

Frequently asked questions

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AI platforms, data infrastructure, production ML systems, complete software products, and complex internal tools. Also architecture leadership or review. I don’t take on one-off support work, small automations, or simple website builds.

Both. I can lead architecture decisions alongside your team, or design and build the complete platform end to end: data, models, services, and product. Most projects combine the two.

It’s all public: Ciaren (a visual workflow builder for data pipelines and ML), sklearn-genetic-opt and PyWorkforce (widely adopted libraries with public documentation and continuous releases), and a track record of production ML systems for companies like EPAM, Globant, Rappi, and Avianca.

Yes. I work with companies across Colombia and LATAM, and remotely with teams in other time zones. Most projects run fully remote, with synchronous working sessions whenever the team needs them.

With a conversation about the business goal and the current technical state. From there comes an architecture definition — assets, constraints, risks, and a concrete design — and a phased construction plan with explicit production criteria.

Building an AI or data platform?

Products, platforms, and open-source software for AI, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning.

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Vision

Building an ecosystem of products and open-source software for AI, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning.

Projects
sklearn-genetic-optPyWorkforceCiaren

Iterixs (Currently building)

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