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, focusing my work as an on-call architect who helps early-stage engineering teams design isolated agent runtimes, stable Model Context Protocol integrations, and transactional database outboxes that allow LLMs to safely execute real-world APIs without corrupting core application states. Before that, I helped build and scale a digital insurtech platform to millions in premiums in LATAM, and spent seven years running an enterprise AI consultancy shipping systems for banks, airlines, and global consumer brands.

I'm the kind of person who joins early and stays until it works, helping teams navigate the messy operational transitions of moving to AI-first architectures, leading technical strategy while remaining close enough to the codebase to write the core triggers, and establishing the systems standards needed to survive production.

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.