📍 Mexico City | 🤖 Full-Stack AI Engineer | 🎙️ Claude Community Ambassador
Senior software engineer turned AI builder. 10+ years shipping enterprise software for Fortune 500 clients (BNP Paribas, Carnival). Now independent, building AI-native apps at the intersection of Silicon Valley and Latin America.
🎙️ Claude Community Ambassador organizing Claude community events across Mexico and the US. One of the largest Claude developer communities in Latin America.
- 🧭 compass-mcp — Open-source TypeScript MCP server that bridges Claude Chat, Cowork, and Code through a shared markdown layer, so context travels with you across surfaces.
- 🗣️ spanglish-mexa-7b — Open model focused on Spanglish and code-switching for LatAm use cases. Part of my push toward edge and on-device AI that actually speaks how my community speaks.
- 🧠 MeetingMindAI — AI meeting assistant for iPhone: real-time transcription, intelligent questions, and summaries. Swappable cloud (Whisper plus Claude) and on-device (SpeechAnalyzer plus Foundation Models) providers. Zero dependencies, pure Swift 6.
- 🏠 Hermes (homelab) — Self-hosted AI assistant running on an NVIDIA DGX Spark, orchestrating scheduled jobs and LLM-powered briefings. My playground for local inference and edge AI.
- 🌐 richlira.dev — Personal site.
- On-device AI for iOS — Apple Intelligence, Foundation Models, and SpeechAnalyzer on iPhone 17 Pro Max (iOS 26).
- AI tools for LatAm — Peso economy apps, Spanglish interfaces, WhatsApp companions, edge and offline-first AI, mid-range Android as default device.
- MCP and agentic tooling — Servers, bridges, and developer experience around Claude.
- Community — Meetups, workshops, and hackathons bridging Silicon Valley and the Latin American developer ecosystem.
- Sentinel — Privacy-routing agentic app, built at the Cerebral Valley x Google DeepMind hackathon.
- Why-Trace MCP — Built at the SF Claude for Technical Founders event.
- Mande — Spanglish medical interpreter for Even Realities G2 glasses (AGI House).
- ¿Quién es? — Voice-only networking memory tool (AGI House).
As a Claude Community Ambassador, I organize Claude community events, workshops, and hackathons across Latin America and the US. Cities so far include CDMX, Monterrey, Mérida, Cancún, Colima, Villahermosa, Hermosillo, and San Francisco. I hosted the first Spanish-language Claude Code meetup in SF and gave a workshop at PlatziConf CDMX on Claude Platform agents, memory, and more.
- 🏢 10+ years of enterprise software engineering (Angular, TypeScript) for Fortune 500 clients, now independent.
- 🎓 Master's in Software Engineering (UNIR México), with an Industrial Engineering background (Tecmilenio).
- 🎒 Self-funded trips to WWDC, Google I/O, OpenAI DevDay, AWS re:Invent, and GitHub Universe.
- 🇲🇽 Bilingual (Spanish and English), building with a Latin American perspective.
| Layer | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Mobile | Swift 6, SwiftUI, iOS 26, Foundation Models, SpeechAnalyzer, visionOS |
| Frontend | Next.js 15, React, Angular, TypeScript |
| Backend | FastAPI, Python, Node.js |
| AI/ML | Claude API, MCP, Ollama, local LLMs, pgvector |
| Infrastructure | Vercel, AWS, NVIDIA DGX Spark, PostgreSQL, Tailscale |
"Release before ready." Ship fast, learn faster. Building AI tools that solve real problems for real people in Latin America and beyond.
- 🎮 Metal Gear Solid enthusiast and game collector
- 🎵 Vinyl record collector
- 🐕 Dog dad to Phoebe
- 🏗️ Industrial engineer who learned to code at a bootcamp while working another job
- ☕ Powered by Mexican coffee