Staff AI Engineer / former CTO with 20+ years of software experience and 10+ years building AI systems across LLMs, agentic workflows, semantic search, recommendation systems, computer vision, generative media, and infrastructure.
I have built and led multiple zero-to-one AI products, including a WhatsApp finance copilot, invoice automation platform, AI-powered budgeting app, dental computer-vision product, text-to-video AI platform, recommendation infrastructure, and semantic search systems.
I was previously CTO at YC and Techstars-backed startups, and two companies I helped build were later acquired by OpenAI and LDC/private equity.
Recently, I have been focused on AI-native workflow platforms, company-brain systems, agentic search, LLM tool use, sandboxed execution, structured outputs, evaluation, human-in-the-loop workflows, and AI systems that turn messy business processes into reliable software.
Remote: Yes, open to remote or hybrid
Contract: Yes
Technologies: LLMs, agentic systems, RAG, semantic search, recommendation systems, computer vision, workflow automation, Python, TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP
Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/carloschinchilla | github.com/calufa | medium.com/@calufa
Email: calufa@gmail.com
Staff AI Engineer / former CTO with 20+ years of software experience and 10+ years building AI systems across LLMs, agentic workflows, semantic search, recommendation systems, computer vision, generative media, and infrastructure.
I have built and led multiple zero-to-one AI products, including a WhatsApp finance copilot, invoice automation platform, AI-powered budgeting app, dental computer-vision product, text-to-video AI platform, recommendation infrastructure, and semantic search systems.
I was previously CTO at YC and Techstars-backed startups, and two companies I helped build were later acquired by OpenAI and LDC/private equity.
Recently, I have been focused on AI-native workflow platforms, company-brain systems, agentic search, LLM tool use, sandboxed execution, structured outputs, evaluation, human-in-the-loop workflows, and AI systems that turn messy business processes into reliable software.