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Hi, I’m Waldo Ibarra

Hands-On Software Architect & Applied AI Engineer

Build software your business can grow on.

I design and build SaaS platforms, APIs and AI systems, from the first architecture decision to production.

11+ years building production software. Hands-on from design to code.

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Engineering experience at

  • H-E-B
  • Guros
  • Uniko
  • Spark
  • Paystand

Selected work

H-E-B / E-commerce

90%

less search response time

Implemented Elasticsearch with optimized search algorithms.

Waspe / Delivery automation

95%

less deployment time

Automated deployments with Gulp and GitHub webhooks.

WGSN / Applied ML

Personalized recommendations

Built recommendations with Amazon Personalize, using item interaction signals to deliver user-specific content.

Stealth music startup / Applied AI

Intelligence from royalty reports

Building AI-assisted ETL to extract intelligence from royalty report files. A medallion database architecture uses the gold layer for dashboards and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

What do you need to build?

Launch a SaaS product

Architecture, APIs and AWS infrastructure for a new product or platform.

Put AI to work

Recommendation systems, RAG pipelines and LLM agents for your product.

Improve an existing system

Search performance, system integrations and deployment automation.

An architect who codes and leads teams.

At Guros, I grew from founding engineer to software architect, leading an org of 44+ engineers, 8 tech leads and 3 architects.

  • TypeScript / Node.js / Python
  • AWS / Terraform / PostgreSQL
  • DDD / Serverless / Applied AI

Tell me what you need to solve.

Send a short note about your product, the problem and your timeline.
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