Diego Medina
Montevideo,Uruguay
Summary
Expert in large language models, including Anthropic Claude API and OpenAI API, with a strong focus on prompt engineering and AI agent architecture. Proficient in tool use, function calling, and retrieval-augmented generation. Skilled in React Native Expo, Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript, with a solid understanding of data structures and algorithms. Demonstrates technical leadership in CI/CD processes, automated testing, and agile methodologies.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work history
AI Software Engineer
Saivory
Houston, Texas
2025.04 - 2026.03
- Designed and built LLM orchestration pipelines into the platform backend, enabling AI-assisted features for franchise operators including campaign copywriting and customer engagement automation.
- Developed MCP server integrations connecting AI agents to internal tools and external services such as Klaviyo, Braze, and analytics providers.
- Implemented agentic workflows using the Anthropic API, covering multi-step reasoning flows for promotional campaign drafting, loyalty messaging personalization, and location-specific content generation.
- Built prompt engineering systems and structured output pipelines to support reliable, production-grade LLM integrations including tool-use patterns and schema-enforced responses.
- Integrated AI workflows with the data stack (BigQuery, Snowflake), enabling agents to query and reason over real-time restaurant performance data to surface insights for operators.
- Architected the AI layer of the React Native mobile application, surfacing generated content and recommendations to end users.
- Evaluated and adopted emerging LLM tooling to accelerate internal engineering velocity across a fast-moving codebase.
Adjunct Professor on Data Structures And Algorithms 1
Universidad ORT Uruguay
2016.03 - 2026.03
- 10 years 7 months
AI Software Engineer
Clutch
2022.05 - 2025.11
- Integrated early LLM APIs (GPT-3, GPT-4) into the website generation pipeline to automate content creation, copy suggestions, and structured page sections for restaurant clients.
- Built prompt templates and output parsing pipelines to produce consistent, schema-compliant website content across hundreds of restaurant profiles at scale.
- Developed internal tooling to streamline AI-assisted content workflows, reducing manual editing time for generated website copy and metadata.
- Implemented embedding-based search and retrieval pipelines to personalize generated content based on restaurant category, location, and brand attributes.
- Collaborated with product and design teams to surface AI-generated suggestions directly into the website builder UI, improving operator onboarding and time-to-publish.
- Maintained and iterated on generation quality through evaluation cycles, prompt versioning, and output validation logic tied to the platform's content standards.
Software Engineer
Chicago Based Company Agency
Montevideo
2019.07 - 2022.05
- Leading teams in the development of powerful web and mobile applications.
- We use React and NodeJS/Ruby on Rails as our tech stack to build modern web applications. We push the limits of every tool, framework and library by incorporating its latest’s features. Using a strong foundation, we’re able to produce high quality code in short development cycles.
- On the mobile end, we use React Native as well as native code written in Swift and Kotlin.
- My role as leader involves making sure the team has everything it needs to succeed.
- It involves trusting in each individual to perform its job and enable them to constantly improve themselves.
- It involves building strong relationships in the team so that, by sharing and helping each other, we can grow together.
- In the end, you want to empower each person to grow individually and as a team player.
Professional Freelancer
Gun.io
Greater Nashville Area, TN
2020.01 - 2022.03
- Certified freelance engineer on the Gun.io platform.
- About Gun.io - Gun.io helps world-class engineering teams hire the world’s most sought-after freelance engineers at a moment’s notice.
Technical Lead
Moove It
2018.03 - 2019.07
- Working on designing the technical architecture and the implementation of medium and large-scale web and mobile applications.
- We use React as our JS library to build modern, highly componentized applications. We push the limits of Javascript by incorporating its latest’s features. Using a strong foundation of libraries, we are able to produce high quality code in short development cycles.
- On the mobile end, we use React Native as well as native code written in Swift and Kotlin.
- As a teach lead, it’s my duty to motivate the team to succeed and to take ownership over the project. Be able to delegate, to show trust in people to build stronger relationships that enable everyone to constantly improve. In the end, you want to empower each person to grow individually and as a team player.
Software Developer
Xmartlabs
2015.09 - 2017.12
- Worked on the development of web and mobile applications.
- Developed mobile applications using Swift for iOS and Java/Kotlin for Android. Our web applications were developed using React as a foundation.
- Strong focus and support to the Open Source community, contributing to libraries such as Eureka and Fountain, and developing base project templates as starting point of new applications, such as bigbang.
- Also worked with Python to develop Jaredbot to automate the dependency updates of Android projects.
Education
Bachelor's degree - Computer Software Engineering
Universidad ORT Uruguay
2013.01 - 2018.01
Software Engineer Assistant - Computer Software Engineering
Universidad ORT Uruguay
2013.01 - 2015.01
Skills
- Large Language Models (LLM)
- Anthropic Claude API
- OpenAI API
- Prompt Engineering
- Agentic Workflows
- AI Agent Architecture
- Tool Use & Function Calling
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- Structured Output Design
- React Native
- TypeScript
- React
- Nodejs
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- CI/CD
- Automated Testing
Languages
Spanish (Native or Bilingual)
English (Full Professional)
Hobbies and Interests
Outside the tech world, I love traveling, reading and being politically engaged.
Timeline
AI Software Engineer
Saivory
2025.04 - 2026.03
AI Software Engineer
Clutch
2022.05 - 2025.11
Professional Freelancer
Gun.io
2020.01 - 2022.03
Software Engineer
Chicago Based Company Agency
2019.07 - 2022.05
Technical Lead
Moove It
2018.03 - 2019.07
Adjunct Professor on Data Structures And Algorithms 1
Universidad ORT Uruguay
2016.03 - 2026.03
Software Developer
Xmartlabs
2015.09 - 2017.12
Bachelor's degree - Computer Software Engineering
Universidad ORT Uruguay
2013.01 - 2018.01
Software Engineer Assistant - Computer Software Engineering
Universidad ORT Uruguay
2013.01 - 2015.01