Staff Software Engineer · AI Consultant

Pablo Schaffner

AI systems that hold up in production

Twenty years shipping production software: a custom IDE used to build 100+ apps, platforms serving 100M+ users, and AI products live today.

See the Work
Custom IDE
BUILT FROM SCRATCH
100M+
USERS SERVED
20+ Years
SHIPPING TO PRODUCTION

A track record built at

MercadoLibre
Truepill
DocNexus
Trabajando.com
Okidoki.chat

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WORK WITH ME

How We Can Work Together

Two clear paths. Both begin with a conversation about what you are building.

For Founders

You have a product that does not fit standard molds, and you need someone who has taken systems from zero to production many times. I work beside you, from architecture to shipped product.

  • Technical co-founding & architecture
  • From concept to production system
  • AI architectures for problems without a template
  • Fractional CTO services

For Complex Challenges

Your problem has no off-the-shelf solution, or the scale breaks the tools you have. I design and build systems that stay reliable when it matters.

  • Custom AI system architecture
  • Solutions where no standard one exists
  • Production systems at massive scale
  • Technical leadership & mentoring
  • HIPAA, SOC2, enterprise compliance

CORE TECHNOLOGIES

Next.jsReactTypeScriptPythonNode.jsPostgreSQLOpenAIVercel AI SDKLangChainPineconeTensorFlowDockerKubernetesAWSGCPVercel

Where it started, my first Vic20

PHILOSOPHY

Why I Build What I Build

Most teams reach for standard tools first. That works until the problem stops being standard: the scale is unusual, the data is messy, or the thing simply has not been built before.

That is where I come in. I work with founders and technical leaders on products that have no off-the-shelf answer, often in AI, healthcare, or systems that have to hold up at scale.

I start from the real problem, not the trend. Then I build the simplest system that solves it and keeps running in production, with clear boundaries and AI only where it actually pays off.

You end up with something your team can understand, extend, and depend on, not a demo that falls over the first time real users show up.

TRAINING

Learn to produce AI video with your own avatar

One-on-one programs for executives and business owners. Clone your face and voice, publish professional reels, and leave with a content system you operate yourself. Taught with tools I built and published.

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TRACK RECORD

What I've built in twenty years

Every line below maps to something that made it to production.

Built a custom IDE from scratch, used to create 100+ apps
Software Expert at MercadoLibre, 1 of ~20 company-wide
Led tech leads across 3 major areas (300+ engineers each)
Architected systems for 100M+ users, 1M+ concurrent
13 years as founding CEO at Creador S.A.
Autonomous healthcare AI with HIPAA compliance
Novel RAG architectures for document fidelity
Co-founder & CTO at Trabajando.com (acquired by El Mercurio)

Where I've Built

Punto Origen

2024-PRESENT

AI Consulting Specialist

Healthcare EMR migration, insurance document translation (150 pages in 3 min), AI sales prospecting, enterprise AI implementations.

MercadoLibre

2023-2024

Software Expert

One of ~20 Software Experts company-wide. Technical reference across 3 major areas (MercadoPlay, Demand, OwnChannels), leading tech leads for 300+ engineers per area. Led architecture for MercadoPlay streaming (100M+ users, 1M+ concurrent, 18 countries).

DocNexus Inc.

2022-2023

Principal Software Engineer

Physician search engine with Neo4j graph database. Terabyte-scale data extraction. ReactJS dashboards with Storybook UI kit.

Truepill.com Inc.

2021-2022

Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead

Led team of 7 engineers. Telehealth platform with video consultations (Twilio). Backend migration Next.js → NestJS. Promoted to Tech Lead in 1 month.

CONTACT

Building something without a template?
Tell me about it.

One conversation is enough to know whether I can help, and I will tell you either way.

The chat runs on Okidoki.chat, a product I built. It can answer questions, understand your case, and book a meeting with me.

Or reach me directly: pablo@creador.cl · LinkedIn