I'm Carlos Rivera ,
I build products & the teams that ship them.

I've spent the last decade-and-change turning complex ideas into production systems people actually depend on. Right now I'm deep into agent runtimes, orchestration, and the infrastructure that lets AI execute real-world tasks without turning production into a smoking crater. Before that I helped build and scale an insurtech company in LATAM and spent seven years running an enterprise AI shop for banks, airlines, manufacturers, and consumer brands.

I'm the kind of person who joins early and stays until it works -- whether that's founding a company, leading infrastructure, or jumping into a team that needs someone to figure out the hard stuff. I've led engineering orgs, built distributed systems, and shipped products across startups and enterprises.

I've been coding since I was 14 -- started building 3D game engines for fun, then at 18 I was writing C++ for UAVs at Hydra Technologies, with stints at Microsoft and HP Labs.

When I'm not shipping, I'm on a trail, in the woodshop, hunting for the best tacos and craft beer, or hanging with my dogs. Always down to talk about interesting problems.