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Marcelo - Software Engineer

Bio

Sunset painting with vibrant colors

Hello! I’m a 24-year-old person interested in artificial intelligence, astronomy, and consumer software. I'm enjoy studying language models. I also do volunteering for environmental protection. I love bicycles. I love reading books about technology and history. I collect rings and chains. Plus I also paint in my free time.

Experience

Creator of Animo

After working on many public experiments with new developments in LLM technologies, I launched Animo, a desktop program that allows content creators to generate animation videos from text. Later that year, it was featured in a paper as one of the applications launched with GPT-4.

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Social Growth Engineer of lovetext

I'm working as a Social Growth Engineer of lovetext, an anonymous social network launched on February 14, 2026 to send love texts with your friends, or family. My work is mostly on designing network effects to reach more people.

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UGC Creator & Manager

I started making videos about technology back in 2022, now I also create and manage UGC for my own apps on TikTok and Instagram.

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Computer Science Teacher

I'm a Computer Science Teacher at Platzi, a tech education platform in Latin America. I taught courses on OpenAI API integrations and LLM Observability, preparing syllabi and technical materials while supporting students through their learning journey.

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Development of agents based on LLMs

In the rise of Artificial Intelligence, I joined SmartUp AI. Based in Chile, SmartUp AI is a company that provides AI solutions to businesses. In my role as a Staff Software Engineer, I worked on the development and research of the platform. In 2024 the company was awarded in the Shark Tank run by JBIZ, the startup accelerator of Olami, and the Aleph Foundation. We were also part of the NVIDIA Inception Program.

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Program Manager

Artefisual is a program where we help non-technical people develop valuable technical and AI skills through mentorships. We guide them through learning, building, and applying these skills to profitable real-world projects.

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Scenio Board Member

I joined the board of Scenio, a science community on YouTube. Based in Spain, Scenio is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting science communication. Our community has presence in Spain and Latin America.

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