Eddie Ramirez
Eddie Ramirez
SF Bay Area, CA
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I'm a prolific prototyper and software engineer with entrepreneurial experience in developing products, talking to users, selling to users, and raising funds from VCs and angels. I explore nature when I’m not building with AI.
🚀 What I'm up to
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💻 Work Experience
Roboflow
San Francisco, CA
Computer Vision Field Engineer
June 2024 - Dec 2024
Scope: Enterprise CV deployments, sales engineering, rapid prototyping, CV/VLM fine-tuning, full-stack dev, Neural Nets.
- Translated business goals into production-grade CV systems. Visited Fortune 500 sites, assessed on-prem constraints, and delivered detection/classification CV pipelines that held up under production load.
- Ran technical demos and proofs-of-concept. Showcased object detection, image classification, and VLM fine-tuning, while interviewing engineers and PMs to capture requirements and steer the product roadmap.
- Contributed code across the stack. Added backend Python services and new UI features adopted by thousands of users within my first week and beyond.
ExplainDev
Los Angeles, CA
Co-founder, CTO
2021 - 2023
Scope: Product strategy, full-stack dev, LLM integration, talking to users, EdTech, fundraising, everything startup.
- Built and launched an AI-first developer tool. Architected an LLM-powered code explainer (RAG + vector search + prompt engineering) that reached 15k active developers.
- Owned the end-to-end stack. Next.js frontend, Python/Node.js APIs, LangChain orchestration, embeddings, cloud resources. Shipped Browser/VSC extensions, CLI clients & Webapps.
- Demonstrated business impact. Generated $12k in early B2C ARR, secured a $5k pilot with a coding bootcamp, and raised $116k in pre-seed capital by articulating technical and product vision.
Intel
USA/MX
Intern → SWE → Sr SWE, Data Center Group
2011 - 2020
Scope: Internal tooling, Database Automations, cloud-infrastructure R&D, Open Source contributor, mentorship.
- Converted PoCs into funded products. Designed exploratory prototypes, secured resources, and developed them into fully supported, production systems.
- Raised engineering standards. Mentored new hires and matched talent to tasks, speeding delivery.
- Advanced OpenStack in the upstream community. Added features, fixed issues, and code reviews.
✨ Other Projects / Awards
- 🥈 Awarded 2nd place ($10,000 award) at a Facebook Hackathon
- 📊 DBAmx: Started and organized a user group for database enthusiasts, gathered 491 participants.
- 🛠️ Kommandr: Hackathon project
🎓 Education
Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Software Engineering
Universidad de Guadalajara, México
Graduation Date: 2015
🧠 Skills
Startups • Customer interviews • Prototyping & live demos • Asking the right questions • Node.js • TypeScript • React / Vanilla JS • Python • MySQL • HTTP & REST APIs • LLMs & LangChain • VLMs • llama.cpp • Image encoders • Embeddings • TensorFlow • Classical & neural CV • Git • Docker • Bash • GNU/Linux • AWS • Azure • CLI tooling • Browser-extension plumbing • Uncertainty
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