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Carlos Prieto

AI Product Owner & Builder · Architecture · Engineering · 20+ years

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Professional Summary

AI Product Owner and hands-on builder with 20+ years across product, architecture, and engineering. I have led backend teams, shaped platform strategy, and owned product roadmaps. I now design and ship AI-powered applications end-to-end. I bring hands-on credibility at every level from code to roadmap, with deep expertise in insurance and multi-tenant platform systems. Comfortable moving between technical design, product decisions, and stakeholder alignment, with a focus on clarity, reusability, and measurable outcomes.

Professional Experience

Jun 2025 – Present

Product Builder

Independent Zürich

Designing, building, and shipping AI-powered products end-to-end, from concept and architecture through implementation, deployment, and iteration.

AMICOVERED · AI Insurance Coverage Assistant amicovered.ch

Shipped a full-stack agentic-RAG application that answers natural-language coverage questions grounded in the user's own policy documents. A Claude Sonnet tool-use loop reasons over the dual-document model (policy certificate + general conditions) and a section-tree retrieval pipeline, returning structured outputs with citations and auditable behavior for a regulated consumer domain. Live in production with Stripe credit billing, Swiss data-protection compliance, and a regression evaluation suite gating every architectural change; the same architecture underpins a planned B2B offering for insurers.

Stack Python / FastAPI / PostgreSQL / ChromaDB / Redis / RQ / Anthropic Claude / React / React Native.

Senloop · Multi-Tenant Feedback & Analytics Platform senloop.com collaboration

  • Co-building a SaaS platform for structured feedback collection with GenAI analysis (sentiment, tagging, keyword extraction) via a dedicated AI microservice wrapping Claude on AWS Bedrock.
  • Contributing to the AI-at-write-time / analytics-at-read-time architecture so dashboards stay fast, cost-predictable, and resilient to provider outages.

Stack Node.js / TypeScript / Express / Prisma / PostgreSQL / Supabase Auth / AWS CDK (ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB) / GitHub Actions.

Jun 2023 – Jun 2025

Product Owner

Goldbach Media AG Zürich, Switzerland

Owned product strategy and roadmap for Farcaster, the group's Data Management Platform processing publisher data across Switzerland and partner networks.

  • Led a distributed team of 8 developers, 1 data scientist, and a Scrum Master across Zürich and Belgrade; rebuilt engagement through structured roadmaps and impact-driven feedback loops.
  • Cut AWS operational costs by approximately 50% through architectural-review workshops and targeted functional changes.
  • Designed a probabilistic segmentation model that reduced time-to-audience from 2+ days to near real-time, expanding addressable inventory for ad products.
Jun 2019 – Jun 2023

Product Manager, Skye Platform

Innoveo AG Zürich, Switzerland

Owned the product roadmap for Skye, a multi-tenant no-code platform used by global insurers.

  • Delivered enterprise platform capabilities including modularization, PDF generation, REST service configuration, and 15+ embedded payment gateway integrations.
  • Led cross-functional teams across Switzerland, Hungary, and India (engineering, QA, business analysts).
  • Partnered with insurer technology teams to shape reusable, scalable capabilities aligned with regulated environments; balanced enterprise customer demands with long-term platform sustainability.
Dec 2010 – Jun 2019

Senior Solution Architect

Innoveo AG Zürich, Switzerland

Senior technical lead for backend architecture, enterprise insurance implementations, and integration-heavy delivery.

  • Led the Java backend team and coordinated cross-functional delivery cycles.
  • Acted as primary technical contact and integration lead for enterprise customer implementations in underwriting and policy management.
  • Shaped reusable platform components and the internal release process that enabled later productization.
Nov 2006 – Dec 2010

Java Developer & Solution Architect

CSC (now DXC Technology) Spain

  • Designed and led system and data integration for ALSA (National Express group).
  • Workstream lead at Zurich Financial Services, integrating legacy and web systems.
  • Developed JEE-based public services for the regional government of Asturias.

Education

Universidad de Oviedo

  • Bachelor's Degree in Technical Computer Engineering (1998 – 2002)
  • Master's Degree in Computer Engineering (coursework completed)

Thesis: Genetic Algorithms for Solving the Job Shop Problem with Local Search

Certifications

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (2017)

Languages

Spanish (C2 / Native) English (C2) German (B1)

Technical Highlights

AI & Data:
Anthropic Claude (Sonnet + Haiku) tool-use loops, agentic RAG with section-tree retrieval, structured outputs with citations, regression eval batteries with LLM-as-judge, vector search (ChromaDB) with sentence-transformers embeddings.
Backend:
Python (FastAPI), Node.js (Express), Java / JEE.
Data & Storage:
PostgreSQL, Redis, Prisma, SQLAlchemy.
Frontend:
React, TypeScript, Vite, React Native (Expo).
Cloud & DevOps:
AWS (ECS, RDS, Lightsail, Bedrock), Docker, CDK, GitHub Actions.
Product & Delivery:
Agile / Scrum, backlog management, stakeholder workshops, roadmap ownership, cross-regional team leadership.