Héctor Rodríguez Velásquez
Senior AI engineer and software engineer based in Curitiba, with more than 12 years building software and more than 2 bringing generative AI to real users. Native Spanish and Portuguese speaker, with technical English.
Experience
- Apr 2025 · present
Co-founder and CTO · PideAI
Online ordering for local businesses, from idea to production. I defined the architecture and stack, and built the conversational booking agent with multi-tenant RAG.
- Jul 2019 · present
Software engineer · Condor Super Center
Martech, loyalty and BI for a supermarket chain in Paraná. A multi-agent content pipeline at US$ 0.30 per post and an MCP Server on top of the internal project system.
- Apr 2018 · Jun 2019
Web developer · Vanguarda Comunicação
Websites and e-commerce on WordPress and Magento 2, landing pages with RD Station and apps in Angular and Ionic. Manaus.
- 2004 · 2010
Systems Engineering · UNEFA, Venezuela
Bachelor's degree.
Stack
AI and LLMs
- Agents with function calling
- RAG with pgvector
- Multi-LLM with fallback
- Human in the loop
- Evaluation and model gates
- MCP Servers
Languages
- Python
- TypeScript
- Go
- Dart
- SQL
Backend
- FastAPI
- NestJS
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- BullMQ
- RabbitMQ
Infra and quality
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Coolify
- Cloudflare Workers
- Hetzner
- Sentry
- pytest
- vitest