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Resume

Pablo Cordero

Full-Stack Software Engineer · AI Systems & LLM Architecture

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Profile

Full-Stack Software Engineer with production experience building AI-integrated web applications for clients. Combines strong front-end craft (React, Three.js, SCSS design systems) with backend architecture (Django, Node.js, PostgreSQL) and hands-on AI systems work including RAG pipelines, semantic routing, and LLM orchestration. Seeking a full-stack or AI engineering role where I can ship at a high pace in a collaborative environment.

Technical Skills

  • Languages & Frameworks: JavaScript (ES6+), Python, React, Django, Node.js, Express.js
  • 3D & Creative: Three.js, React Three Fiber, Blender, GLSL Shaders, Web Audio API, FFT Audio Analysis, Audio-Reactive Visuals
  • Design & Product: UI/UX Strategy, Product Roadmapping, Adobe Creative Suite, Technical Spec Writing
  • Backend & Data: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RESTful APIs, Django REST Framework, JWT Auth, WebSockets
  • Development: Git, Vite, SCSS, Jest, Responsive Design, Mobile-First Architecture

Featured Projects

La Dolce Vita — Full-Stack Engineer & Product Lead

React • Express • OpenAI • MongoDB

Production AI concierge platform deployed for a real client — live booking integration with Airbnb calendar sync

  • Integrated OpenAI GPT-4o with Google Sheets API to power a dynamic, multilingual guest support chatbot
  • Engineered a natural language date parser and iCal availability checker for real-time Airbnb calendar sync
  • Shipped full CI/CD pipeline with React on Vercel and Express on Render; mobile-first responsive UI across all breakpoints

NUMENEON — Full-Stack Engineer & UI Lead

React • Django • PostgreSQL • WebSockets

Full-stack neopunk social media platform — 58% engagement rate, 4m 37s avg. session

  • Designed 3-column "River Timeline" layout to reduce cognitive overload and sustain deep content exploration
  • Architected glassmorphic SCSS design system and coordinated cross-functional delivery across auth, friends, and messaging workstreams

Pneuma — LLM Cognitive Orchestration System

React • Node.js • Claude API

Production cognitive architecture that intercepts and shapes LLM reasoning before generation — not a wrapper, a reasoning layer

  • Implemented 3-layer archetype routing (cosine similarity → momentum → fusion history) across 46 thinkers
  • Built 525-passage RAG knowledge base from 21 primary source texts, retrieved at runtime by semantic similarity
  • Engineered tiered prompt architecture reducing token load from 18k to ~2k via intent-scored conditional block loading
  • Designed dialectical synthesis engine with antithetical, complementary, and cross-domain collision modes
  • Integrated 3-layer memory: vector embeddings (semantic recall), structured cross-session memory, and conversation persistence

Nexus Geom Lab — Lead Developer

Three.js • React • Web Audio API

Interactive 3D visualization platform for 4D geometry exploration

  • Rendered 24 interactive 4D geometries — tesseracts, quantum manifolds, polychorons — with custom wireframe shaders and orbital camera controls
  • Built real-time FFT audio analyzer (bass/mids/highs at 60fps) driving audio-reactive 3D geometry via Web Audio API
  • Implemented progressive unlock system and gamification layer to drive user engagement

Dojo — Full-Stack Engineer

React • Django • PostgreSQL

  • Modeled a traditional Goju-Ryu syllabus into a structured digital curriculum — tracking kata, bunkai, and kumite progression per student
  • Implemented soft-delete recovery and form validation to ensure data integrity across all training records

Education

  • General Assembly — Software Engineering Immersive (Graduated) Feb 2026
  • Fashion Institute of Technology — Humanities & Fine Arts 2006–2008
  • Art Students League — Classical Realism & Anatomy 2006–2020

Professional Experience

  • Independent Software Consultant — Self-Employed 2025–Present
    Shipping production AI and full-stack systems for clients, from scoping through delivery — including a multilingual AI concierge with live booking integration (OpenAI, MongoDB, Vercel/Render)
  • Technical Product Manager — NUMENEON 2025–2026
    Directed architecture, UI strategy, and product roadmap for a 5-person team — wrote pseudocode specs, sized tasks across XL/L/M/S tiers, and coordinated delivery across backend, auth, and messaging workstreams; platform reached 800+ GitHub clones and 58% engagement rate post-launch
  • Martial Arts Instructor — Traditional Okinawan Martial Arts 2018–Present
    3rd-degree black belt (Shorei-kan lineage); designed structured curriculum and student progression systems — same methodology applied to engineering workflow and technical documentation
  • Legal Interpreter (Spanish) — NY Public School System / USCIS 2005–2024
    Delivered simultaneous and consecutive translation in high-stakes legal and educational settings — developed precision communication habits now applied to technical writing and API design
  • Technical Designer — K.H. (Kids Headquarters) 2005–2006
    Authored technical specifications and enforced production standards for global apparel manufacturing — early foundation for systems thinking and precise documentation

Additional

3,000+ GitHub contributions across 10+ shipped projects • Bilingual English/Spanish (Professional) • 20+ Years Martial Arts (Shorei-kan Lineage) • Visual Artist 2006–2024 (commission, restoration, gallery, digital) • Classical Oil Painting • Guitar & Bass