About

Cristian Encalada

Software & AI Developer

Montevideo, Uruguay

With a background as an Electronics Engineer and experience in software quality assurance, I build production Software & AI solutions.

Expertise building Generative AI systems:

Large language models (LLMs) and NLP techniques to extract insights from text.
Computer vision and image processing tasks
AI-powered chatbots for natural user interactions
Production multi-agent systems and AI-assisted software development

Experience

A career path from IT support and software quality assurance to software and AI engineering.

Jul 2024 – Present
2 years 3 months
Montevideo, Uruguay
AI Engineer
Promtior
- Built an AI-powered system to process unstructured logistics data from multiple countries and formats, automating tariff-rate reviews and saving hundreds of hours of manual work.
- Developed production multi-agent systems with Claude Code and the Anthropic API to normalize complex unstructured data.
- Implemented an AI Telegram chatbot integrated with a custom CRM to improve task efficiency for customer-sales teams in the logistics industry.
Apr 2024 – Jun 2024
3 months
Montevideo, Uruguay
RPA Developer
Promtior
- Identified repetitive business tasks and processes suitable for automation across the real-estate and forestry industries.
- Designed, implemented, and deployed workflows using Power Automate Desktop and Cloud, Power Apps, Azure Logic Apps, Excel, and Power BI.
Feb 2024 – Apr 2024
3 months
Remote · Argentina
Web Developer
No Country
- Delivered web projects in multidisciplinary, distributed teams across Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, and other countries.
- Strengthened frontend and backend development skills while collaborating through an agile, project-based environment.
Dec 2020 – Dec 2022
2 years 1 month
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Jalasoft
- Applied functional, performance, regression, and end-to-end testing techniques using SQL, Git, Selenium, Slack, and Jira.
- Collaborated with frontend, backend, DevOps, and automation teams in an agile Scrum environment.
- Built experience with Jenkins-based CI/CD workflows and software development and ETL processes.
Nov 2019 – Dec 2020
1 year 2 months
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Information Technology Support Analyst
Soft Computers
- Diagnosed and resolved network, hardware, and software issues for end users and infrastructure environments.
- Installed and configured Linux and Windows operating systems and virtualization environments.

Certifications

Anthropic

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations

Issued Aug 25, 2026 · Expires Aug 25, 2027

Foundational certification in designing and building production-grade applications with Claude, Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the Claude API, and MCP.

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Universidad Mayor de San Simón

Advanced English Certification (C1)

Issued Oct 2022

Advanced English certification issued by the university's Language Laboratory in Bolivia.

Advanced English Certification (C1) certificate

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Skills

The technologies and tools I use to build, test, automate, and ship software and AI systems.

Frontend

React
Next.js
TypeScript
JavaScript
HTML/CSS
Tailwind CSS

Backend

Node.js
Python
Flask
SQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MySQL

AI

LLMs
RAG
NLP
Computer vision
LangChain
Anthropic API
Claude Code
MCP
Multi-agent systems
Cursor
Codex
Amazon Bedrock

CI/CD

Azure
Docker
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Azure Logic Apps
Power Automate

Tools

Git
GitHub
Jira
Selenium
Slack
Power BI
Power Apps
Excel
Linux

Projects

These are some projects that I worked on

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LucidNav

Lua
WoW Add-On

World of Warcraftv12.0.1⬇ 3,583 downloads

Real-time maze mapper and turn-by-turn navigator for the Endless Halls, helping you efficiently obtain the Lucid Nightmare secret mount in World of Warcraft.

TagNCount

React
TypeScript
Vercel
FastAPI

Web app that uses computer vision to detect, label, and count objects in images

3D Web App

React
JavaScript
Next.js
Vercel

An interactive 3D page, built as a tribute to "The Little Prince", novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Blog

Personal blog where I share my experiences and knowledge about software development, AI and electronics.

Published on
April 21, 2025
Statistics vs. Probability
general-knowledge statistics probability data-science
In this post, we’ll explore the differences and relationships between statistics and probability—two foundational pillars of data science and machine learning.
Published on
September 22, 2023
What is Amazon ECS? Basics of AWS
devops aws
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a powerful and flexible container orchestration service offered by AWS. It simplifies the process of deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Docker containers.
Published on
September 15, 2023
Desktop environments vs Windows Managers - Linux
linux
What are the differences between Desktop environments and Windows Managers in Linux? Let's review it.
Published on
September 8, 2023
Install Arch Linux and dual boot with Windows - UEFI
linux arch tutorial
Linux is an excellent operative system talking about software development, but sometimes we need specific tools or games which only run on Windows, and even tough there are software such as Wine or Proton, the easiest solution is to have a dual boot with Windows and whatever Linux distribution you prefer.
Published on
September 1, 2023
5 TV series that every programmer should watch
entertainment tv-series
In the world of tech and computers, there are some pretty cool TV series. They're about hackers, nerds, and all digital things. Whether you're a tech expert or just curious, these shows have drama, humor, and futuristic stuff. So, let's take a look at some of them about tech!.

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