AI Design Engineer <-> Product Technologist

Joaquin Perez

As a designer, I bridge UX and engineering. Using AI-assisted development, I prototype fast and ship real products: LLM-powered chat interfaces, API integrations, SaaS features, and dev tooling. The new paradigm I push for is owning the loop: decide, build, ship, observe, iterate. Fewer handoffs, faster signal. Product isn't a phase—it's the whole cycle.

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Stack & Skills

Design:

Figma, Webflow, Framer, After Effects, AVID Composer, Blender

Front-End:

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Vue, Node.js, ShadCN, Zed

Infrastructure:

Docker, Git, Github, Cloudflare, AWS, Ubuntu, Archlinux, TCP/IP Networking, Supabase, REST APIs

Emerging Tech:

Bitcoin Lightning Network, NOSTR, Claude Code, Goose (agent client), Ollama, Open WebUI, Local LLMs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) & MCP-UI

Interests:

Decentralized Identity, Digital Sovereignty, Context Engineering, Composable UI, Open Source Tools, Media Theory

Design Specialities

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Synthesis

...analyzing parts, removing waste and translating concepts, until something new emerges...

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Storytelling

...structural forethought plus natural curiosity equals a satisfying experience...

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Multimedia Content

...producing meaningful and targeted content that resonates with humans, by humans...

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Technical Fluency

...bridging the divide between designers and developers, translating across disciplines without losing fidelity...

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Interaction Design

...designing with intention, guiding attention, shaping moments of choice into flows of meaning...

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Systems Thinking

...patterns, dependencies, and loops, revealing the invisible architecture beneath the surface...