// forward deployed engineer · ai · madrid · es/en

AI from idea to production, inside your team.

I'm Gustavo. I embed with a team to scope, build and ship LLM systems that reach real users: agents with guardrails, retrieval over your own data, evals, and the engineering to run them. Twenty years building product, ten of them as Product Manager.

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$ git log --oneline career2024ailylabs · empowering business with meaningful ai2023independent · forward deployed engineer202024i · video content distribution2010viajes el corte inglés · travel agency2008dnovae · multi-platform video distribution content… 3 more commits
20years building product
10years as Product Manager, from use case to delivery
3LLM-powered products in production in 2026
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02How I work

Forward Deployed Engineer: I work inside the customer's team, understanding their needs from the first definition of the use case to the system running in production. AI agents write a lot of the code; I own the scoping, the architecture, the review and what ships.

  1. discover
  2. scope
  3. architecture
  4. build with agents
  5. evals · tests · security
  6. deploy
  7. measure
  8. hand over
01 · discover and scope

Start from the workflow, not the model

Sit with the people who own the process. Agree on the problem, the data, the constraints and what a good outcome looks like. Write the spec and the architecture decisions before the first line of code.

02 · build with evals

Small changes, measured behaviour

Prototype fast, then harden: retrieval, guardrails, permissions, fallbacks and hand-off to a human. Every change is reviewed and checked against evals, tests, security and cost before it ships.

03 · ship, measure, hand over

Production from day one

CI/CD with a preview per change, monitoring and usage metrics from the first release. Then playbooks and building blocks the team can keep running without me.

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03Experience

8 entries · 2004 → now
2024 - Present
AilylabsEmpowering Business With Meaningful AI

Senior React / React Native Developer on AI products: mobile and web front-ends for LLM features, in a product team.

2023 - Present
IndependentForward Deployed Engineer

I embed with a client or build my own products, from discovery to production. Client work: A-Secur’s B2B store, delivered working directly with the business. Own products: papaia (AI assistant with RAG and evals), Koove and LotesOnline, built with AI coding agents and a documented workflow: spec and architecture first, small reviewed changes, tests, security review, CI/CD.

2020 - 2023
24iVideo Content Distribution

React/React Native Developer developing native multi device video apps using react and react native javascript framework

2010 - 2020
Viajes El Corte InglésTravel Agency

Product Manager for Cruises and Offers, ten years with business stakeholders and customers: discovery, flow definition, wireframes, delivery and follow-up. Front-end developer on the same products with JavaScript and React.

Earlier experience · 2004 → 20104 roles
2008 - 2010
DnovaeMulti-platform video distribution content

Frontend developer on Multi-platform video distribution content

2006 - 2008
WundermanMarketing Online agency

Frontend and Backend developer working with websites, microsites, online ads, and rich media ads

2005 - 2006
OartstudiosWeb Art Studio

Frontend and Backend developer creating websites for different clients

2004 - 2005
Grupo kapitalNight clubs

FullStack developer creating websites for different clubs, photo galleries, and online ticket stores

04Stack

$ cat stack.txt
LLM agentsRAGEvalsOpenAI · Anthropic APIsClaude CodeTypeScriptPythonNode.jsReact · Next.jsReact NativePostgres · FirebaseAWS · VercelCI/CDObservability
// open to forward deployed engineering roles · madrid or remote · es/en

Let's talk about what you're deploying.

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The assistant runs on papaia, a product I built. Prefer email? soygus@gmail.com
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