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Oliver Castelblanco

@ocastelblanco

Principal Solutions Architect & AI Orchestrator | EdTech & Digital Products | AWS Serverless · Angular · Moodle · Local LLMs | 20+ years building learning platforms

Colombia
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What I'm looking for

Remote roles in solutions architecture, digital product leadership or EdTech, full-time or contract. I especially value education, culture and social or environmental impact, and teams that build products with AI agents. Based in Bogotá, Colombia (UTC-5), available to start immediately.
I design digital platforms end to end, from the first conversation with users to the system running in production, and for the last two years I have done it with AI agents as my main production method. My background is Industrial Design (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) and Multimedia Creation (Universidad de los Andes). For 20 years I have worked where education, product and engineering meet: virtual campuses, LMS platforms and digital learning content for publishers, public institutions and foundations in Colombia, Mexico and Spain. What I do today: • Solutions architecture on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, EC2, RDS) and Firebase, with cost treated as a design constraint: my serverless products run for $0 to under $1 USD/month. • AI-augmented software development: I write the specification, encode the security and cost rules, direct the agents, and review every merge. On Babel, 149 tracked tasks showed a 20.8% human / 79.2% agent effort split. • Local, private AI: at ESAP (Colombia's public administration school) I built a document-extraction pipeline with OCR and a local LLM (Gemma 4 on Ollama), so no personal data left the institution. • EdTech: Moodle, SCORM/XLIFF automation, content pipelines and item writing for ICFES national exams. Recent work: • ConectaTech (co-founder): B2B learning platform on Moodle 5.2 and AWS for Colombian schools. From zero to production in about 4 weeks; now serving its first paying school (~200 students). • Le Tiende (founding partner): box office, bookstore inventory/POS and café ordering systems for a cultural venue in Bogotá. • Grupo Planeta – Aulaplaneta (Spain, 2019–2025): prototypes, UAT and large-scale automation (XLIFF export of 3,340 Storyline and 1,504 Maker resources). Portfolio and case studies: ocastelblanco.com · github.com/ocastelblanco

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Co-founder & Prin Solutions Architect

ConectaTech

Jan 2026 - Present (9 months)

B2B learning platform for Colombian schools, co-founded with a partner. Built on Moodle 5.2 and AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, SES, Lambda). Designed a Markdown → Moodle content pipeline and an Angular + PHP admin panel. Zero to production in about 4 weeks with AI agents covering frontend, backend, QA and DevOps; first paying school (~200 students).

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Current

Founding Ptr & Prin Solutions Architect

Le Tiende

Jun 2023 - Present (3 years 4 months)

Cultural venue in Bogotá (bookstore, café bar, theater); I design each system with AI agents and review every merge. Babel: inventory and POS for 3,000+ books, built in 19 days (20.8% human / 79.2% agent), under $1 USD/month. Ágora: theater box office with QR tickets and Bold payments via signed webhook. Comandante: real-time ordering, $0/month on Firebase.

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Test Item Writer

Innovatech E.I.C.E.

Jul 2026 - Sep 2026 (2 months)

Writing test items and problem scenarios for ICFES's Software Design national exam in the PRISMA system, following the construction manual and reference frameworks of each exam module.

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Solutions Arch. & AI Integration Lead

Escuela Superior de Administración Pública (ESAP)

May 2024 - Aug 2026 (2 years 3 months)

Built RUND, a document system for ~300 professors and ~12,000 documents: 7 Dockerized microservices (Node.js, PHP 8.3 API, Angular SSR, OCR, OpenKM). Local AI pipeline (PaddleOCR, Gemma 4 on Ollama, ChromaDB) with no personal data sent to external APIs; in UAT users estimated 60%+ less reading time. Digitized work plans of ~256 professors in 16 offices. Supervised a junior contractor.

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DIGI Product & Content AUTO Consultant

Planeta Innovación (Grupo Planeta · Aulaplaneta)

Oct 2019 - Dec 2025 (6 years 2 months)

Remote from Bogotá for Aulaplaneta, Grupo Planeta's learning platform (up to ~50 schools, 19,000+ users in Spain, Colombia, Mexico). Ran UAT, Jira incidents and releases; built prototypes for new versions. Automated XLIFF export of +3k Storyline and +1k Maker resources and SCORM 2004 publishing. Built SCORM/CDN wrappers and bulk tooling, coordinated localization, trained staff on proprietary CMS.

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Director of Development

Mediateca Soluciones Educativas

Apr 2019 - Dec 2023 (4 years 8 months)

Led architecture and technical delivery at the EdTech studio I co-founded, as Director of Development (permanent contract) in a three-partner team. Led the development of virtual campuses and e-learning platforms for institutional clients. Built a custom certificate system for ACG Calidad's Moodle campus (Angular, 2021); together with BASC's, that campus is still running and trains 500+ people a year. The studio is no longer operating.

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Test Item Writer (for ICFES)

Corpoeducación

Apr 2019 - Nov 2019 (7 months)

Wrote test items and case contexts for the Saber Pro national exam, and classified evidence into performance levels for the Saber TyT exam.

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Digital Education Coordinator

Editorial Planeta Colombiana (Grupo Planeta)

Jan 2015 - Mar 2019 (4 years 2 months)

• Coordinated aulaPlaneta's digital production for Colombia and Mexico (about 12 schools and 5,000+ users in Colombia; about 8 schools and 4,000+ in Mexico), as liaison with the platform's development team in Barcelona.
• Brought 250+ Colombian learning resources onto the platform in 18 months, which made its adoption by 12 schools possible.
• Supervised a content production assistant.

ME

Co-founder, Developer & Solutions Architect

Mediateca Soluciones Educativas

Apr 2010 - Mar 2019 (8 years 11 months)

Co-founded Mediateca, an EdTech studio for virtual campuses and digital learning content. Clients included Colombia's Ministry of Education (XIV Virtual Educa app, 2013), CISP (Mercosur Youth Parliament course, 2013–2014), BASC (virtual campus, still running), Politécnico Grancolombiano and Fundación Manuel Mejía. Set up Universidad del Magdalena's campus (Moodle, Omeka, Elgg) and the Universidad Nacional Tumaco campus website (2018).

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Freelance Web Developer

Infomotion

Jan 2011 - Dec 2014 (3 years 11 months)

Interactive learning materials for corporate clients.

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Lecturer

Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto)

Feb 2010 - Dec 2014 (4 years 10 months)

Graphic Communication Technology program, School of Communication Sciences. Courses: Mobile Device Design, Website Design, Web Languages and Technologies, and TV Commercial Production. Taught four editions of the Diploma in Multimedia Design and Communication. Advanced from adjunct (2010–2012) to full-time faculty (2012–2014).

OC

Interactive Developer & Information Architect

Overlap Colombia

Oct 2013 - Jan 2014 (3 months)

Information architecture (Balsamiq), navigation and interaction design, and development (Flash, XML, HTML) of the institutional digital portfolio and intranet templates of Ecopetrol Corporate University.

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Project Coordinator

Fundación Manuel Mejía

Feb 2011 - Mar 2013 (2 years 1 month)

Project Coordinator I (two consecutive contracts). Planned and monitored education programs for clients such as the Ministry of Education (National Virtual Teacher Training Plan) and the National Federation of Coffee Growers. Set evaluation criteria by audience and delivery mode, defined roles and helped select teams, wrote technical and financial proposals and reports, designed training processes and led pedagogical implementation.

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Development Coordinator

ACAC (Asociación Colombiana para el Avance de la Ciencia)

Sep 2012 - Dec 2012 (3 months)

Coordinated the update, migration and development of virtual teacher-training courses for the Ministry of Education's Core Competencies Development program.

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Virtual Campus Lead

Fundación Manuel Mejía

Feb 2010 - Dec 2010 (10 months)

Scoped and led the Foundation's Virtual Campus from definition to operation. Defined its scope and e-services, wrote the terms of reference to hire the development firm and two platform administrators, oversaw development and ran the test and adjustment protocol. Set up technical support and operating procedures; the campus grew past 200 active users.

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Lecturer, Web Design

Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina

Jan 2010 - Jun 2010 (5 months)

Taught web design.

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Programming Professional

Fundación Manuel Mejía

Apr 2006 - Jan 2010 (3 years 9 months)

Built the Foundation's e-learning resources and courses, moving from contractor to staff programmer (Programming Professional II, 2009). Programmed the Aula Virtual Cafetera courses, partly as a teleworker. Adapted content into interactive formats (HTML, Flash, 2D animation), such as a 4-module course on containers (2008). Built document publishing tools and helped define technology guidelines and follow up on other programmers' work.

PC

Freelance Web Developer

Proximity Colombia

May 2008 - Aug 2009 (1 year 3 months)

Advertising applications in Flash/ActionScript 3, AIR, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL for clients including Visa, Zenú, Winny, Colombia es Pasión and Frito Lay.

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Web Developer

BBM Marketing, LLC

Jan 2008 - Jun 2008 (5 months)

Remote. Online registration, control and tracking tools for the logistics of medical events and conferences across Latin America.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

UA

Universidad de los Andes

Graduate Specialization, Multimedia Creation

2006 - 2007

UC

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Design

1993 - 1999

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