Hello,
I'm Gutemberg
I help teams turn AI into real products people use — by pairing solid software engineering with the latest in AI.
GM // ENGINEEREngineering meets AI — in plain terms.
I'm Gutemberg S. Mendoza, an AI engineer with 5+ years building software that uses AI to solve real business problems. I work on the kind of systems that handle thousands of users, day in and day out, without breaking.
The best AI products happen when good engineering meets smart use of AI. My job is making that work in practice — so the tech stays out of the way and the product just feels useful.
Senior AI Engineer
Clarika Software + Innovation
Leading AI work on smart agents for enterprise clients — the kind that automate workflows, talk to customers, and reliably ship to production.
Senior AI Engineer · Head of AI
Mercately
Led the AI team. Set the roadmap, hired the team, and designed the chatbots that help businesses sell over WhatsApp.
Research Developer · AI Engineer
Jelou AI
Rebuilt an AI assistant to answer 75% faster. Turned thousands of past conversations into a smart memory the bot could search, and improved how it understands voice.
AI Engineer · AWS Developer
AI Dev Group
Marketing automation with LangChain + GenAI. Scalable Flask backend on AWS (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Cognito). SaaS with Stripe + PayPal, full DevOps in Docker Compose.
Data Engineer
Banco Pichincha
Data analytics and cleansing on Azure Databricks with PySpark. Built marketing-cloud pipelines reaching millions of users. Real-time dashboards.
AI Engineer
YUBOX
Advanced LLM systems with LangChain. RESTful API for an AI chatbot. Quality control for call-centers (sentiment + efficiency). RAG with ChromaDB; Flask + MySQL + Celery + Redis.
IT Director
WellPerf
Built Low-Code apps in Power Apps. Managed all IT tooling, scalable code for analytics + automation. Power Automate flows + SharePoint. Trained interns.
Partner · Data Analyst
Feyneur Analítica
Co-founder. Implemented tech systems and data analysis to take SMEs to the next level. Public-opinion area lead.
Data Analyst · IT Consultant
Bisel
Process automation and operational optimization. Designed a geolocation dashboard analyzing patient distribution to optimize logistics.
Education
Computer Science & Engineering
Escuela Politécnica Nacional
Software systems, algorithms, ML foundations.
BSc Physics
Escuela Politécnica Nacional
Foundation in math, modeling, and scientific reasoning.
Sales chatbots on WhatsApp
Smart agents that answer customers, send quotes, recover abandoned carts, and hand off to a human when needed.
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Insight from a million chats
Turned a year of customer conversations into a searchable knowledge base, surfacing the recurring themes a team should care about.
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Made an AI assistant 4x faster
Rebuilt the slow parts of a live AI assistant so replies arrive in under a second instead of several. Same answers, much better experience.
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gmctl — career toolkit
Mini playbooks for AI engineers: getting hired, leveling up on LinkedIn, and shipping side-projects that read as senior.
> gmctl init > gmctl plan > gmctl ship
1:1 AI Career Mentorship
Monthly cadence. Roadmap, role-targeting, codebase reviews, technical interview prep.
- 90-min kickoff
- 2 sessions / month
- Async messaging
- Project review
LinkedIn Audit & Rewrite
Headline, About, Experience, featured. Positioning that recruiters in AI actually click.
- Full profile audit
- Rewritten copy
- Banner direction
- 1 follow-up
Job Hunt Sprint
4-week sprint. CV rewrite, target list, application cadence, mock interviews. Ship offers.
- CV + portfolio
- Target 30 roles
- 3 mock interviews
- Offer review
Context engineering is the new prompt engineering/ AGENTS
7 min →2026.02.04Why your RAG retrieves junk: a checklist/ RAG
5 min →2025.12.20Shipping LLM features without breaking prod/ LLMOPS
9 min →2025.11.02A junior-to-senior gap nobody mentions/ CAREER
4 min →2025.09.10Evals are tests; treat them like tests/ EVALS
6 min →Gutemberg shipped a multi-agent system that genuinely changed how our team supports customers. Rare combo of engineer and researcher.
The mentorship sessions completely re-framed how I look at AI engineering. I closed an offer in 6 weeks.
He doesn't just write code — he architects systems that survive contact with real users.
My LinkedIn went from invisible to 4 inbound recruiters per week after the audit.
Let's build something.
Mentorship, consulting, or shipping an AI product together. Pick the channel that works for you.
- email[email protected]
- linkedin/in/gutembergsmendoza
- github@gutembergmendoza
- phone+593 098 786 8186
- locationQuito · Ecuador
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