Software engineer & technology leader

Guillermo Valin

I build AI, blockchain, and cloud systems — and lead the teams that ship them. 13+ years across retail, logistics, banking, and crypto.

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01 / Now

Now

Senior Software Engineer at dcSpark — Jan 2025 → present

Shipping Shinkai App, a decentralized AI agent creator: libp2p network between Shinkai nodes, payments over Coinbase’s x402 protocol, and compatibility layers for Ollama, Anthropic, OpenAI, Grok, and Gemini.
Building the Shinkai App Store so users can publish their own AI tools and agents.
Created MCP Dockmaster — a tool that lets anyone use MCP servers with Claude and Cursor.
Running cloud infrastructure on GCP + Cloudflare and CI/CD on GitHub Actions.

02 / Experience

Selected experience

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2025 – Present

dcSpark

Core contributor to the Shinkai Node orchestrating AI agents and managing models.
Implemented flexible AI workflow features empowering user customization.
Designed CI/CD pipelines automating tests, builds, and deployments for rapid releases.
Provisioned scalable cloud environments with Docker, GCP Cloud Run, and Cloudflare Workers using IaC.

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Mar 2023 – Dec 2024

Cotalker

Led Engineering & Product strategy, aligning backlog and roadmap with business and user vision.
Retained largest accounts (CGE, BCI) and increased recurring revenue by 60% in 12 months.
Migrated infrastructure from AWS to GCP, cutting cloud spend by 50% in 2024.
Achieved ISO 27001 certification, opening doors to new enterprise clients.

Chief Technology Officer

Jun 2020 – Mar 2023

Cotalker

Created a highly available distributed architecture and founded the SRE team, cutting critical incidents by 75%.
Introduced an internship program that attracted talent and boosted project throughput.
Aligned Product, Operations, Marketing, and Customer Success with strategic vision.
Managed and mentored a 10-person engineering team reporting directly to the CEO.

Head of IT Operations

Jan 2018 – Jun 2020

Cotalker

Established Projects & Support areas to implement improvements and manage incidents.
Secured the COPEC contract in a pre-sales role; the success case now represents 80% of the portfolio.
Delivered projects for corporate clients (COPEC, CGE, BCI) leading to contracts longer than 5 years.
Designed solution architectures and optimized processes to support company growth.

03 / Stack

Stack

Languages

RustTypeScriptJavaScriptPythonC#

Frontend

ReactVue.jsAngularAstro

Backend & Cloud

Node.jsDockerKubernetesGCPAWSCloudflareTerraform

Data

PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisMySQL

04 / Education

Education

Engineer's Degree, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM)

Five-year program in electronics, communications, and computer engineering. Graduated on the University's Honor List (2005–2010).

Diploma in Software Engineering & IT Project Management

Universidad Andrés Bello

Postgraduate studies focused on software development best practices, agile methodologies, and leading large-scale IT projects (2015–2016).

Languages

Spanish (Native)English (Fluent)