Education
SIDER: offline digital school
Concept ✓ Feb 2026Prototype ✓ Mar 2026Pilot ✓ 2026
Next: Multi-school scaling in Urubamba
Result. Pilot in 6 schools in the Cusco region, reaching 300+ students.
Mechatronics Engineer building products for real-world constraints.
- Open to
- Innovation Analyst · Associate Product Manager · Product Development Engineer · Junior Creative Technologist
- Based in Colombia
- UTC−5 · Remote, hybrid or on-site · Open to relocation
6
Schools
SIDER pilot, Cusco
2
Ventures founded
Tech Solutions, Tech Kits
2
Client pilots
Chatbot beta, website in production
IBM
Product management
Specialization, 2025
I build products for places with little connectivity and small budgets.
I studied Mechatronics Engineering at Universidad de Boyacá (2020 to 2025) and graduated as valedictorian. My thesis is the Mobile Utility Hub, a mobile unit for energy, water and food. In 2025 I completed IBM's Product Management Specialization.
Since then I have worked in the field. I led the design and build of SIDER for rural schools in Cusco, and I run two small ventures: Tech Solutions and Tech Kits.
Languages: Spanish (native), English (C1, IELTS Academic), Portuguese (A2).
Selected work
Five projects, each with the stages it has reached.
Lab
Smaller builds and experiments, each with the stage it has reached.
Valle STEM LabConcept ✓ Nov 2025PRD with 10 functional and 8 non-functional requirements and 5 epics.
PRD with 10 functional and 8 non-functional requirements and 5 epics.
A hybrid STEM solution for public primary schools in Urubamba: a modular kit, a bilingual Spanish and Quechua platform with offline mode, and teacher training. I wrote the product concept and the PRD, and designed the main board in KiCad (ESP32).
Concept, PRD and main PCB.
Concept ✓ Nov 2025
Next: Pilot in 5 schools (PRD target, not a result)
- KiCad
- ESP32
- PRD
- Visual programming
Lingo: speaking practicePrototype ✓Working prototype, shown on video. No user metrics yet.
Working prototype, shown on video. No user metrics yet.
Learners answer a level-based prompt in front of an animated avatar. Speech is transcribed and compared with the model text in real time. The prototype targets Spanish learners in professional contexts.
Built by me.
Prototype ✓
- Speech recognition
- NLP
- Web
Remote medical triagePrototype ✓Multimodal triage demonstrated on sample cases.
Multimodal triage demonstrated on sample cases.
Two iterations: an IoT triage kit with pulse oximetry, temperature and heart-rate sensors, and medscan_universal, a Python prototype that combines a symptom description and an image to output a diagnosis, a confidence score and a triage level.
Built by me.
Prototype ✓
Research prototype, not clinically validated
- Python
- MedGemma / MedSigLIP
- Arduino
- IoT
Hotel shower regulatorPrototype ✓ 2025Working prototype, shown on video. Water savings not yet measured.
Working prototype, shown on video. Water savings not yet measured.
A touchscreen controller with an adjustable timer, live flow (L/min) and volume (L) readings, and valve control, to keep water use down without hurting the guest experience.
Built by me.
Prototype ✓ 2025
- Embedded systems
- Touchscreen UI
- Flow sensing
Tienda V2: WhatsApp store botPrototype ✓ Jan 2026Full flow tested end to end with the WhatsApp Cloud API (test traffic only, no usage figures).
Full flow tested end to end with the WhatsApp Cloud API (test traffic only, no usage figures).
Multi-tenant conversational commerce: a web catalog with live stock, a checkout that hands off to WhatsApp, and real-time stock reservation with row locking to prevent overselling. Node, TypeScript, Postgres and Redis.
Built by me.
Prototype ✓ Jan 2026
Next: Pilot
- Node.js / TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- WhatsApp Cloud API
- React
Showreel pipeline: from HTML to videoIn use ✓14 videos, each under the 6 MB limit, with no audio track and a poster frame. The showreels on this site come from it.
14 videos, each under the 6 MB limit, with no audio track and a poster frame. The showreels on this site come from it.
A repeatable pipeline that turns each project into a short video: the scenes are written in HTML and rendered with HyperFrames, compressed with ffmpeg and checked with ffprobe. Every video comes in English and Spanish, with vertical cuts for phones. The isometric figures on this site are generated from scripts in the same way.
Built by me.
In use ✓
- HyperFrames
- HTML to video
- ffmpeg
- Python
3D virtual tour pipelinePrototype ✓On a test sculpture, 164 of 164 frames registered. A room test reached 73.9%, below my threshold, so I wrote recapture specs.
On a test sculpture, 164 of 164 frames registered. A room test reached 73.9%, below my threshold, so I wrote recapture specs.
A free, reproducible pipeline that turns phone videos into 3D walkthroughs: frame selection, COLMAP reconstruction, Gaussian splat training and Blender rendering.
Built by me.
Prototype ✓
Next: Recapture the room
- COLMAP
- Gaussian splatting
- Blender
- Python
Hiring for an innovation or product role?
Where I work now
Oct 2026 to present
Tech Kits
Founder and hardware product engineer
Electronics kits for kids aged 10 to 12, from the mission brief to CNC-milled PCBs. Market validation is under way.
Sep 2026 to present
Tech Solutions
Founder and product engineer
WhatsApp chatbots, NFC cards and websites for small businesses, built on Cloudflare.
Sep 2025 to present
FutureSense Foundation
Group Mentor and Project Implementor
I built SIDER, designed the M&E System v2.0 for the Peru and Panama hubs, and automated lesson planning with a Python generator that produced 27 session plans.
Jan 2023 to present
Voxy
Corporate Language Consultant and Curriculum Developer
Personalized learning pathways for 40+ executives, most from Fortune 500 companies, plus a diagnostic and curriculum system that turns a JSON learner profile into tiered courses.
What colleagues say
“In the Peru Hub, Andres has contributed to the development of SIDER and supported Monitoring & Evaluation processes. … He has demonstrated a good ability to translate operational needs into practical solutions and collaborate across different teams.”
Gonzalo Davila NovoaRegional Manager, Latin America, FutureSense Foundation
Managed Andrés directly
“I can confidently attest to his exceptional skill set, work ethic, and innovative mindset. … Andrés possesses a deep understanding of the principles and applications of mechatronics and robotics, seamlessly integrating mechanical, electrical, and software engineering aspects into his projects.”
Dr. Olayemi Funmilayo DicksonResearcher, Transport Planning and Policy, Engineers Without Borders UK
Worked with Andrés on the same team
Work
FutureSense Foundation
Group Mentor and Project Implementor, since 2025
Voxy
Corporate Language Consultant, since 2023
Cafam
Group Manager, 2018 to 2019
Education and certification
Universidad de Boyacá
B.S. Mechatronics Engineering, 2020 to 2025
IBM
Product Management Specialization, 2025
Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes
Specialization in teaching Spanish as a foreign language, 2023
Volunteering
Engineers Without Borders UK
Engineering Design Lead, 2021
Technical capabilities
Tools I work with
- SolidWorks
- CadQuery
KiCad- Proteus
Arduino
ESP32
Blender
Python
TypeScript
Node.js
React
Astro
Tailwind CSS
Cloudflare Workers
PostgreSQL
WhatsApp Cloud API
Playwright
Mechatronics
- SolidWorks and CadQuery
- PCB design (KiCad, Proteus)
- Arduino and ESP32
- CNC milling (GRBL)
- 3D printing (FDM)
Software
- Python
- TypeScript and Node.js
- PWA and offline-first
- Astro, Tailwind, Cloudflare Workers
- PostgreSQL
Product and delivery
- PRD and TDD writing
- Human-centered design
- Agile and Scrum
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Field logistics
Learning and AI
- Curriculum design
- Task-based language teaching
- Prompt engineering
- LLM evaluation (RLHF)