Ricardo Flórez

Founded a personalized map-art e-commerce venture, turning a rendering prototype into a live, paying product in days using an agentic workflow. Shipped on a deterministic renderer with a validated hybrid AI pipeline behind it.

Designed and directed a research, writer, LLM-as-judge, and bounded-revision pipeline that turns store products into reviewable WordPress drafts. Added safeguards including prompt-injection defenses, cost caps, offline evaluation fixtures, and mandatory human approval.

Founded and led the product development of an AI receipt scanning app, including defining multimodal receipt-extraction behavior and building the UX end to end. Shipped the Ask Gastify client and cleared Apple App Review with an AI consent and privacy flow.

Lead the team owning all customer-facing surfaces for a US consumer-lending fintech, including websites, loan application flows, and customer lifecycle. Run a spec-driven agentic workflow with Claude Code and Codex, and architect config-driven applications.

Staged WordPress deployments across the SDLC, built hybrid apps with Ionic and Angular, and managed Windows Server/IIS hosting.

Modernized web apps from .NET to modern JavaScript on front end and back end, and built a Laravel (PHP) API. Co-built the corporate site using Gatsby and headless WordPress, and developed a custom web components library.

Grew a music-tech startup into a funded business, raising private capital and selling in about six countries. Built the team from scratch and led product, testing, and go-to-market across the full company lifecycle.

Developed frontend web solutions.

Founded and led technical operations.

B.S. in Systems Engineering from Institución Universitaria EAM in Colombia.