Fractional CTO and Enterprise AI Architect based in Greater Boston. 25+ years building enterprise-grade platforms — from FIX-compliant trading systems at MFS and Eze Castle, to cloud-native SaaS at Micronotes, to LLM-driven platforms on Azure and Microsoft Fabric today. Currently leading AI architecture for Berkshire Residential Investments through Chalo AI.
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Experience
Fractional CTO · Enterprise AI Architect — Chalo AI (Jun 2025 – Present)
Designing and delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and SharePoint for Berkshire Residential Investments — a leading residential real estate investment and property management firm.
- Architected an Enterprise AI platform on Azure + Microsoft Fabric enabling portfolio-scale analytics and intelligent automation across property management operations
- Designed and deployed AI-powered business assistants and copilots using Azure OpenAI Service and SharePoint-integrated workflows, replacing manual processes for cross-functional teams
- Built code generation frameworks and LLM-based tooling that reduced development cycle time and expanded internal engineering capabilities
- Led fine-tuning pipelines for domain-specific big data models on Azure Fabric, improving retrieval accuracy at enterprise scale
Chief Technology Officer → Chief Engineer — Micronotes.ai (Feb 2019 – Jul 2024)
Grew through Principal Architect → VP Engineering → CTO → Chief Engineer over 5.5 years at this AI-driven marketing automation platform for banks — think “Survey Monkey for secure digital banking”.
- Propelled Micronotes from a cloud/AI company to a full multi-tenant SaaS provider
- Pioneered the integration of GPT and LLMs into the product’s technological ecosystem; drove big data analytics on Databricks
- Led cross-functional engineering teams building scalable solutions targeting digital banking users with the right conversations during online and mobile banking sessions
- Scaled organization and systems to meet the demands of new business and technology partners
Principal Software Engineer — Ericsson (Jun 2017 – Feb 2019)
Principal-level engineering at Ericsson’s Waltham, MA office.
Principal Software Engineer — Sensitech (United Technologies) (Oct 2015 – Mar 2017)
Cold-chain monitoring and IoT-scale telemetry at a United Technologies subsidiary.
- Acted as .NET Architect, Project Leader, and Scrum Master for a real-time data acquisition and analysis system enabling teams to monitor, visualize, and research telemetry
- Led Azure & IoT research: built proofs of concept using MVC API + AngularJS, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and SignalR/Redis for both on-prem and Azure deployments
Earlier roles — including Director of Software Engineering at Ledgex Systems (5+ years, funds-of-funds platform on .NET/Azure), Co-Founder at Integridea, and Sr. Financial Software Engineer at MFS Investment Management (FIX-compliant OMS) — are on LinkedIn.
Skills
Cloud & Platform — Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Azure OpenAI Service, SharePoint, Databricks AI / ML — Large Language Models (LLMs), fine-tuning, Core ML, retrieval-augmented generation, GitHub Copilot Languages & Runtime — C# / .NET, TypeScript, Python, C++ Architecture — Multi-tenant SaaS, event-driven systems, real-time data pipelines, FIX protocol and OMS, IoT telemetry Leadership — Fractional CTO engagements, engineering team scaling, cross-functional delivery
Education
Master’s degree, Artificial Intelligence — UNIR (2023 – 2024) Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics Engineering and Software Development — Universidad de Antioquía (1988 – 1995)
Certifications & Languages
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- English (native/bilingual) · Spanish (native/bilingual)
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