Alan Arguello

Executed market research to assess the feasibility of starting a company to gather Human Data for AI Labs. Went San Francisco to develop relations with Researchers.

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Co-founded this program to support bootstrapped founders with Alexander Torrenegra, Serial Entrepreneur & Shark Tank Investor

• •Relaunched Torrenegra Organization in 2024 as a fully bootstrapped company and hit breakeven in just 2 months
• •Owned organic + paid marketing, sales, partnerships, and operations for the accelerator
• •Built two business lines achieving $300K+ ARR with 70% net margin - completely bootstrapped
• •Organic content marketing reached 4M+ total impressions
• •Reviewed and evaluated 1,400+ applications from founders across Latin America
• •Supported 101 Latin American startups over 18 months
• •Organized events for 30 to 200 people across Mexico, and Colombia
• •I managed Alexander Torrenegra (800k followers) social media presence to help businesses grow
• •Read the post-mortem about Torrenegra Organization's shutdown

Worked alongside one of Rappi's ($5.2b) co-founders Andrés Bilbao to incubate the next generation of under-25 startup leaders.

• •Co-designed and facilitated 2 program cohorts with speakers from Thiel Fellowship, Latitud, etc
• •Reviewed 750+ applications from founders and students across Latin America
• •Supported 300+ fellows who collectively raised $40M+ and joined YC, Thiel Fellowship, and Techstars
• •Organized events for 30 to 200 people across Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia
• •Organic content marketing reached 1.5M+ impressions
• •I managed Andrés Bilbao (70k followers) social media presence to help businesses grow

Created an educational program and community for content creators in Latin America.

• •Built community of 145 creators from 13 different countries
• •VC-backed and accelerated by Platanus Ventures (<1% acceptance rate for technical founders)
• •I was in charge of sales and we achieved up to $85k annual run rate
• •Read the post-mortem about Trendi's closure

Audio-content platform for Latin America backed by Y Combinator, Lightspeed, Accel, Greylock & Thiel Fellowship

• •Completely rebuilt website using NextJS improving SEO
• •Resolved Stripe and Apple subscription payment issues
• •Customized onboarding process based on user metadata
• •Worked with React, React Native, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL
• •Worked across Swift, Kotlin, and GCP/Kubernetes as needed
• •Helped sustain development after 60% of the team (four senior engineers) departed

Rebuilt API for agent workflows from scratch.

• •Built end-to-end tests with JavaScript, Mocha, WebDriver, and Cucumber
• •Transitioned from QA automation to backend; built an API for insurance agents using .NET on Azure

Provided technical support for enterprise clients.

• •Learned SQL, Linux, and Shell scripting

Research on the benefits of switching from analog to digital meters for households in Mexico using an ATMega microcontroller. Assisted by Prof. Jose Luis Monroy: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37085473979

• •Studied smart energy metering to reduce technical and non-technical losses
• •Supervised by Prof. Jose Luis Monroy (University of Waterloo researcher)

Organized and hosted a hackathon in Napa, California in less than 1 week at the end of 2025 with support of Anthropic, Supabase, Lovable and Vercel, we got the attendance of 45 engineers.

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Co-developed an AI avatar that interacted in real-time using Anam, Deepgram, LiveKit, ElevenLabs and Recall. We got it to $1K MRR and $3K one-off in 8 weeks and sold it to 15 B2B companies

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We built a voice-first app that streamlines daily truck check-ins for drivers and managers, replacing long forms and manual review; judged by OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Co-hosted Gen Z Fellowship Program, this was a completely free program where we supported 20 founders from Latin America with speakers from Thiel Fellowship, Latitud and others.

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I was part of On Deck Catalyst Cohort 2 and participated in On Deck's Build Weekend.

• •Out of 16 projects, our team won the $4,000 cash prize
• •I was responsible for designing and building the prototype
• •We developed an educational investment app for kids, where they could earn money deposited by their parents through gamification, helping them build financial literacy skills
• •As a result, we also received a fast-track interview for the ODX accelerator

Business strategy and entrepreneurship focus

Electrical engineering with embedded systems focus