Fernando Flores Curriculum Vitæ — 2026
Fernando Flores
Fernando J. Flores
Mexico City · he/him · ES • EN
Available for senior engineering & tech-lead roles — Q2 2026

Fernando
Flores.

Full-stack engineer specialising in distributed Python systems, real-time data pipelines & applied ML.

Twenty-plus years building scalable backends and data infrastructure across fintech, ad-tech, healthcare imaging and high-frequency trading. Comfortable from kernel-level sysadmin to LLM-orchestrated agents. Active interest in LLMs, fine-tuning and forecasting.

Currently leading engineering work at Bain & Company on AI-Native delivery, designing multi-agent systems on LangGraph and MCP, with humans-in-the-loop, evaluation harnesses, and prompt-cached LLM pipelines in production. Previously Buildertrend, PayPal-Venmo (via Taller), BairesDev. Bilingual operator. Based in Mexico City, available globally.

Contact
ferjflores@gmail.com +52 56 3055 4904
Based
Ciudad de México UTC−6 · Open to remote
Web
fernandoflores.me linkedin · github · /ferjflores
Focus
Python · FastAPI · Cloud LLM tooling · Data infra
§ 01 — Selected work

Selected experience

Present Oct 2024 →

Lead AI Application Engineer

Bain & Company · Platform & AI
  • Build agentic AI systems with LangGraph, Azure AI Foundry and the OpenAI Agents SDK, exposing tool orchestration over MCP with prompt engineering, embeddings and semantic search.
  • Power the semantic layer with vector search (pgvector).
  • Architect async (async/await) FastAPI services on PostgreSQL.
  • Own infrastructure across Azure and AWS, using Terraform to orchestrate serverless services, networking, secrets and CI/CD (Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions).
LangGraphOpenAI Agents SDKAzure AI FoundryOpenAI APIMCPRAGembeddingssemantic searchpgvectorPythonFastAPIasync/awaitPostgreSQLAzureAWSTerraformAzure DevOpsGitHub Actions
Sep 2022 → Sep 2024 · 2 yrs

Sr. Backend Developer

Buildertrend · Construction SaaS
  • Owned unit & integration testing strategy and performed security reviews.
  • Implemented Redis caching plus token-blacklisting and MFA for the auth layer.
  • Built risk evaluation flows for financial transactions and onboarding via Sardine integration.
  • Shipped banking API features and established a CI/CD pipeline for automated tests and quality gates.
  • Adopted GraphQL (Strawberry) to streamline client-server communication for complex queries.
PythonFastAPIasyncioGCPMongoDB.NETStrawberry GraphQLSentryDocker
Nov 2021 → Sep 2022 · 11 mo

Sr. Risk Software Engineer

Taller Technologies · at PayPal / Venmo
  • Built and maintained risk-evaluation services for card & account operations using Django + Pytest.
  • Tuned fraud-detection algorithms and shipped security enhancements across transaction flows.
  • Worked with Kafka streams to improve real-time monitoring of financial transactions.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally to refine risk models and deploy mitigation strategies.
PythonDjangoMySQLCassandraKafkaJenkinsDockerPyTest
Nov 2020 → Jul 2023 · 2 yr 8 mo

Lead Python / AI Developer

SingularBot · Crypto-quant consultancy
  • Designed an HFT market-maker bot using orderbook microstructure analysis; built ML-classification, MLP & SVM trading strategies.
  • Stood up Kafka pipelines for low-latency multi-exchange market data; scaled ML training on Databricks.
  • Provisioned AWS infra (S3, RDS, Lambda) via Terraform; CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
  • Built a market-data lake for cleaning, aggregating & back-testing — measurably improving model accuracy.
PythonFlaskScikit-learnPandasCCXT proKafkaDatabricksTerraformAWSDocker
Aug 2021 → Dec 2021 · 5 mo

Sr. Python Developer

BairesDev · Marketing-data platform
  • Built marketing-profile classification using Django + PostgreSQL with event-driven AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS).
  • Migrated core applications to Databricks; optimised ETL pipelines and S3 data lake ingestion.
PythonDjangoPostgreSQLAWS LambdaSQS / SNSDatabricksDocker
Apr 2021 → Jul 2021 · 4 mo

Lead Python / JS Developer

AIMarketscap · Crypto-trading consultancy
  • Built async Flask microservices and a multi-platform trading app (Quasar / Electron / Capacitor).
  • Combined Spark with Kafka for high-throughput, real-time market data processing.
PythonFlaskVueJSQuasarElectronSparkKafka
Sep 2017 → May 2019 · 1 yr 9 mo

Lead Developer

CodingMotion · Multi-tenant SaaS
  • Lead developer on Multi-x, a multi-tenant SaaS platform on AWS — owning architecture and full-stack delivery.
  • Built medical-imaging 2D/3D DICOM viewers in VTK.js + VueJS, plus Django/Flask/SQLAlchemy REST APIs.
  • Implemented Redis-backed caching & Python-RQ message queues; LDAP-bound auth; Scrapy news ingestion.
VueJSReactDjangoFlaskVTK.jsScrapyPostgreSQLRedisDocker
§ 02 — Earlier career

Earlier roles

Sept 2019 — Jan 2020
Lead Python Developer
Tachikoma Project · Social-media automation & analytics on PySpark
May 2018 — Aug 2020
Odoo Developer
Xetechs CA — Guatemala · Odoo modules, SQL reporting, legacy migrations
May 2018 — Jan 2019
Python Developer
CryptaBot · Flask microservices for crypto orderbook extraction on Heroku
Mar 2017 — Aug 2017
Full-Stack Developer
Smart Supply Chile · Laravel REST + VueJS, Memcache, Heroku
Apr 2016 — Mar 2017
Full-Stack Developer
Bizwi — The Smart Shopping Co. · Cassandra architect, RabbitMQ, JWT SSO
Dec 2015 — Jul 2016
Web Developer
RedBird Technologies · Laravel APIs & Leaflet maps
Nov 2014 — Mar 2017
Lead / Full-Stack Developer
Sondeos CA · Django telephone-survey system, random-number generator API
Sep 2009 — Sep 2014
Full-Stack Developer · SysAdmin · Manager
Agencia Venezolana de Noticias · Discursive analysis (Django), HA cluster, Percona XtraDB
2006 — 2009
SysAdmin · DBA · IT Manager
Min. Comunicación · Min. Integración · Agencia Bolivariana · CVG Telecom — infrastructure, HA, mail, video, GIS
May 2002 — Jan 2006
SysAdmin
Haiton World C.A. · POS server support, remote backup, cluster & CCTV
1999 — 2002
Research Intern
Quantum Chemistry Lab · Simón Bolívar University · Four-wave spectroscopy simulations
§ 03 — Stack & skills

What I work with

Today & recent

Backend & data

Python FastAPI Django Flask asyncio PostgreSQL MongoDB Cassandra Kafka Redis GraphQL Spark / Databricks Scrapy

ML, AI & vision

OpenAI / MCP LangGraph LangSmith Scikit-learn TensorFlow NLTK OpenCV ImageAI Pandas / NumPy CCXT pro

Cloud, infra & DevOps

AWS GCP Azure Serverless Docker Kubernetes Terraform GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins Bash Datadog SIEM Sentry

Frontend

VueJS React Node.js TypeScript / JS HTML / CSS / SASS Quasar VTK.js
§ 04 — Languages

Spoken languages

Español
Native
English
Professional
Français
Basic
日本語
Basic
Português
Basic