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Your AI product,
built and shipped.

I'm Ricardo, a senior engineer running a one-person studio in Miami. Bring me an idea and I take it from spec to a live app that real users pay for, in weeks. No agency layers, no hand-offs, no vendor runaround.

10+ yrs
Enterprise eng
3 live
Products shipped
EN / ES
Bilingual
Bare metal
Self-hosted lab
What I build

Services for teams that want it shipped, not slide-decked.

01

Product builds

From idea to launch: full-stack web apps that take real users and real payments.

02

Agents & automation

Custom AI agents and workflows that run reliably in production, not just demos.

03

Systems & integrations

APIs, data plumbing, and secure integrations that make products work at scale.

04

Fractional builder

Short-term technical leadership to scope, prototype, and ship the priority work.

What I've shipped

Real products, in the wild.

Settled: Digital contracts and booking for freelance pros. Live and taking real payments.

Settled

Live

Digital contracts and booking for freelance pros. Live and taking real payments.

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Tenue: AI wardrobe app that organizes and recommends outfits from your own closet.

Tenue

Prototype

AI wardrobe app that organizes and recommends outfits from your own closet.

LegalEase: Immigration-law automation for document-heavy case workflows.

LegalEase

MVP

Immigration-law automation for document-heavy case workflows.

Planofy: AI estimating for residential contractors: reads plan packages and prices the bid. Built under Nightcity.

Planofy

Live

AI estimating for residential contractors: reads plan packages and prices the bid. Built under Nightcity.

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Background

10+ years moving enterprise systems from architecture to production.

Pre-sales and solutions engineering across MSP and cybersecurity, with roots in network engineering and clinical IT. Bilingual EN/ES. I run a bare-metal homelab and orchestrate my own AI agents end to end.

/ Next.js + Vercel
/ Supabase + Postgres
/ Cloudflare
/ Proxmox + Docker
/ Self-hosted AI agents
/ TypeScript + Python
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