Manuel Maxera
AI Engineer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
AI Engineer focused on production LLM agents and backend platforms for enterprise SaaS, using Python, FastAPI, LangGraph, AWS Bedrock and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Experience includes retrieval, multilingual search, LLM evaluation and observability, as well as AI-assisted code review and merge-request workflows in GitLab CI. Foundation in full-stack product engineering and cloud infrastructure.
Experience
AI Engineer at Avature
September 2025 to Present, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Build and improve production AI agents for Avature Copilot, supporting candidate search and applications, scheduling, insights and knowledge-base Q&A using Python, FastAPI, LangGraph and AWS Bedrock.
- Migrated seven agents to a shared prompt architecture with reusable snippets and customer-editable instructions, and aligned agent configuration across product and orchestration services.
- Extended MCP integrations by organizing platform tools, adding configurable wildcard tool groups and validating requests before workflows are submitted.
- Delivered locale-aware knowledge retrieval across the platform, orchestration service, AI gateway and crawler, so answers can cite sources in the customer's language.
- Contributed to the internal AI gateway with asynchronous rate limiting, Bedrock latency and throttling metrics, dynamic OpenAI model support and CI reliability improvements.
- Built agent regression and calibration tests, and authored reusable GitLab CI jobs and agent skills for AI code review and merge-request overviews.
Software Engineer at Avature
August 2024 to August 2025, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Developed and maintained an integrated application suite spanning the PHP end-user platform, Java crawlers and API integrations, and a TypeScript browser extension.
- Designed and maintained the browser extension with a React frontend and Node.js backend.
- Built Java crawlers to scrape job boards or communicate with their APIs, parsing responses into user-specific datasets.
- Built and maintained the PHP application, integrating extension and crawler capabilities for end users; fixed defects and delivered features across the suite in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Also delivered sourcing features, retired legacy job-board integrations, modernized PHP with PSR-4 migrations and type hints, and contributed early Copilot and semantic-search integrations.
Cloud Engineer at Avature
March 2022 to July 2024, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Led server provisioning, lifecycle and configuration work across cloud platforms and Linux environments, including on-call response to critical incidents.
- Improved monitoring and incident response by refining alarm severity and routing, reducing false positives and aligning alerts with service ownership.
- Automated recurring operational workflows and partnered with teams to strengthen monitoring and infrastructure reliability.
Sysadmin Unix at IBM – Kyndryl
November 2019 to March 2022, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Administered Red Hat Linux, AIX and Solaris systems, covering capacity planning, maintenance, installation, upgrades, troubleshooting and on-call support.
- Led server and data migrations and implemented Ansible automation to reduce manual ticket-resolution work.
Projects
Trading Strategy Tester
CLI backtesting runner for trading strategies
Built a CLI backtesting runner to compare strategy variants across assets and timeframes, with configurable risk, exit modes, sessions and transaction costs.
Implemented deterministic OHLC execution simulation and generated performance reports with trade charts.
Trading Strategy Tester code on GitHub
HoytsX
Your cinema in the blockchain
HoytsX code on GitHub
Pokemon Voting
Vote your favourite Pokemon on Ethereum
Built a Solidity/React voting DApp with wallet-based registration, one vote per user and admin-managed candidates; stored profile images on IPFS and deployed and verified the contract on Ethereum Sepolia.
Pokemon Voting code on GitHub
Exercism
Java Track Maintainer
Exercism code on GitHub
Vbnb
Listing App
Vbnb code on GitHub
Skills
Languages
- Python
- PHP
- TypeScript
- Java
- Solidity
- JavaScript
Frameworks
- FastAPI
- Hardhat
- Foundry
- React
- Spring
- Tailwind
AI engineering
- LangGraph
- LangChain
- MCP
- AWS Bedrock
- OpenAI
- RAG
- Prompt engineering
- LLM evaluation
Search and backend
- Elasticsearch
- Vector search
- Embeddings
- Redis
- Celery
Quality and observability
- GitLab CI
- Docker
- OpenTelemetry
- Phoenix
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Linux
- AWS
- Git
AI developer tooling
- Devin
- Windsurf
- Codex
- Opencode
- Claude Code
- herdr