Platanus Hack Caracas · October
2nd Place, AI Security Track
Won second place in the AI Security track with Gotchu, an AI-powered security audit platform for small and medium-sized businesses.
Kevin Bravo
product & ai engineer · full-stack
Product and AI engineer with 5+ years turning ideas into real products. These days I spend most of my time building and evaluating AI agents and AI tooling, along with the backend and infrastructure that make them reliable. I build products end to end and keep owning them after launch. For 5+ years I've worked with people to figure out what's worth building, then designed, coded, deployed, and supported it, whether on my own or leading a team. Most recently a senior product engineer at Free2Z, building AI agents and the RAG, evals, and tooling that make them reliable. Into maths, cryptography, security, and embedded systems. MPA student at IESA.
Experience
Where I've worked
- mar 2025 - oct 2026
senior product engineer
Led the live creator platform's migration from React to SvelteKit without losing features, built an MCP server that lets AI agents publish and manage content through scoped, expiring access, and protected payments and Zcash sign-in against double charges and replayed requests.
- oct 2024 - aug 2025
product engineer
u.s. department of state, via avaa
Built Billingua Talent for the Venezuela Affairs Unit, a bilingual platform connecting Venezuelan professionals with employers; hired and led two engineers, designed separate access for candidates, employers, advisors, and admins, and piloted it with 50 users and five companies.
- jul 2024 - dec 2024
full stack engineer
freelance software development
Worked with a range of clients across education, finance, and professional services, building websites and mobile apps from first scoping conversations through launch and post-launch support.
- oct 2022 - jul 2024
full stack engineer
Replaced spreadsheets with two production platforms on Azure for AVAA's scholarship program and EducationUSA advisors; SEP serves about 400 monthly users across three chapters, with an AI assistant that answers staff questions from program records.
- sep 2021 - aug 2022
junior software engineer
Cleaned four years of scattered scholarship records with Python into the program's first Power BI dashboard and automated recurring activity setup with Google Apps Script; that dataset later seeded SEP.
About
A bit about me
I'm Kevin, a product and AI engineer. I take ownership of problems nobody has scoped yet, lead the work from the first conversation to production, and stay accountable for it after launch. Lately that means putting AI agents into real products and running them securely, with clear permissions, guardrails, and evals, so they help people without putting their data and systems at risk.
I've shipped for startups that move fast, nonprofits that make every dollar count, and public institutions where every decision goes through a process. Each one works differently, and I've learned to read the room, earn trust quickly, and deliver in all of them.
Outside of work, I've spent more than 8 years volunteering with organizations across education, the environment, and tech, leading teams, organizing events, and starting projects from scratch. That's where I learned to lead people and bring them together around a shared goal. I'm also doing a Master of Public Administration at IESA.
Projects
Things I've built
- 01
viamu
A free catalog of scholarships, internships, and fellowships abroad, kept current by an AI pipeline that turns source pages into searchable listings, with a private workspace to prepare each application.
- nuxt
- go
- langgraph
- 02
Registro CiberVE
A bilingual public registry of cybersecurity incidents tied to Venezuela that turns scattered reports into searchable records, each one traced back to its sources, with profiles of affected organizations and threat actors.
- sveltekit
- postgres
- langgraph
- 03
Arena Criolla
An open source multiplayer fighting game starring iconic characters and founders from Venezuelan culture, playable right in the browser with friends on the same screen or online.
- typescript
- multiplayer
- open source
- 04
Brio
A phone app for talking to your Hermes AI agent from anywhere, through a small connector that securely tunnels to the computer where the agent runs.
- expo
- go
- websockets
- 05
Cinve
An MCP server that lets AI assistants check Venezuelan cinema listings, showtimes, prices, and seat availability, and say so when data is incomplete instead of guessing.
- mcp
- typescript
- oauth
Prizes
Recognitions
Talks
Talks and conversations
Zcash en Español · Zcash anniversary month · spanish
Crea y recauda fondos con Free2z
An introduction to the new Free2Z and a quick guide to navigating it, from publishing your work to raising funds directly from your community.
Writing
Notes and write‑ups
Contact
Let's build something
Have a project or a question? My inbox is open, and I usually reply within a day.
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