Yagel
Salazar.

I build AI agents & RAG systems people love to use.
8+ years taking ideas from backend architecture to the last pixel of the frontend — for brands like Disney, Clara and the LA Clippers. Today I build LLM agents and RAG pipelines that run in production, with evaluation and observability built in.
- LOC
- Actopan, Hidalgo, México
- BASE
- Mexico City · Remote-first
Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer and Tech Lead with 8+ years shipping type-safe systems end to end — now with AI at the core. I design multi-step LLM agents and RAG pipelines, architect secure event-driven microservices, optimize PostgreSQL data layers and build polished React frontends with genuine UX/UI sensibility.
- 01
AI / LLM Engineering
Multi-step agents on LangGraph, RAG over Azure AI Search, evaluation with test datasets and LLM-as-judge scoring — traced end to end with Langfuse.
- 02
Backend Architecture
Microservices & APIs in Node.js, NestJS and TypeScript — GraphQL Federation, Kafka event streams, OpenAPI contracts — with PostgreSQL schema design and query optimization.
- 03
Frontend & UX/UI
React, React Native & Next.js with design systems, Web Components, D3.js/SVG data visualization and a sharp eye for interfaces that feel right.
- 04
Cloud & DevOps
CI/CD pipelines, Docker deploys and cloud infrastructure across AWS & Azure.
- 05
Quality & Testing
Comprehensive Unit and E2E coverage with Jest, Cypress and Pytest to keep releases reliable.
- 06
Technical Leadership
Leading Agile teams, setting architecture direction and mentoring toward clean code.
- 07
Mobile, end to end
React Native, Kotlin & Swift — production apps for fintech, hospitality, retail and live events.
AI in production.
Agentic RAG platform for a Fortune 500 beverage company — Softtek, 2026 — present.
- 01
Agents & tools
Multi-step agents on LangGraph — stateful graphs, conditional routing, retries and handoffs between steps — with per-agent system prompts, Pydantic-typed tools, schema-validated structured outputs and persisted per-user memory.
- 02
Retrieval
Structure-aware chunking with overlap, hybrid vector + keyword search on Azure AI Search with semantic re-ranking, metadata- and permission-aware filters, and incremental re-indexing from SharePoint, Confluence and S3.
- 03
Evaluation & guardrails
Test-case datasets re-run on every prompt or model change, LLM-as-judge scoring recorded in Langfuse, schema validation, mandatory citations, out-of-domain refusals and human review of traces before each release.
- 04
Cost, latency & observability
Per-step and per-tool tracing of tokens, latency and cost in Langfuse; model routing by task; streaming responses with timeouts and retries; embedding and response caching plus context trimming.
- 05
AI in the dev loop
An n8n + LLM pipeline that reviews every GitHub pull request automatically.
Track record.
Reverse-chronological — global brands across beverages, fintech, streaming, retail & sports.
Global IT services — client: a Fortune 500 beverage company.
- Lead development on an Nx monorepo for the client’s next-generation, multi-tenant sales platform — Next.js web app, NestJS microservices with GraphQL (Apollo Federation) and a BFF layer, Kafka-based event-driven integrations, PostgreSQL; deployed with Docker, GitHub Actions and Argo CD on AWS.
- Own the AI platform — multi-step LLM agents and RAG pipelines with LangGraph, LangChain, OpenAI and FastAPI over an Azure AI Search vector store, evaluated and observed with Langfuse — and its LLM-powered UI: a conversational interface with streaming responses and agent workflows in Next.js/React.
- Develop Python data ingestion & retrieval services (Snowflake/Snowpark, Pandas, SQLAlchemy) integrating SharePoint, Confluence and AWS S3 sources.
- Ship the field-sales React Native + Expo mobile app with Redux Toolkit, TanStack Query, Apollo Client and MUI; shared UI as StencilJS Web Components; OpenAPI/Swagger contracts with generated typed clients; enterprise SSO with OAuth 2.0 / OIDC (Azure Identity).
- Automated code review with an n8n + LLM pipeline on GitHub pull requests; tests with Jest, React Testing Library, Supertest and Pytest; sprint demos with client stakeholders.
Unicorn fintech — corporate spend-management platform.
- Architected secure, type-safe multi-tenant microservices with NestJS, GraphQL (Apollo Federation) and Prisma over PostgreSQL, with event-driven processing on Kafka and RabbitMQ for real-time transactions and automated financial reconciliation.
- Shipped the Next.js web app and React Native + Expo mobile app with Redux Toolkit, TanStack Query, Apollo Client and MUI / MUI X; shared UI as StencilJS Web Components (Shadow DOM) and embedded third-party flows in sandboxed iframes with postMessage and a strict CSP.
- Published OpenAPI/Swagger contracts for REST services with generated typed clients; engineered on an Nx monorepo with Docker and GitHub Actions (Fastlane/Codemagic for mobile); tested with Jest, React Testing Library and Supertest.
Global digital consultancy — marquee client engagements.
- Disney — as Tech Lead, architected internal dashboards with interactive D3.js/SVG visualizations (time series, rankings, drill-down tooltips) and streaming-management services (Node.js, Express, NestJS, TypeScript) with Kafka event streams and OpenAPI contracts with generated clients; containerized deploys with Docker on AWS.
- Disney — secured and integrated them with OAuth 2.0 / OIDC SSO and JWT flows, StencilJS Web Components and sandboxed iframe + postMessage + CSP embedding; Unit + E2E testing with Jest and Cypress.
- LA Clippers (NBA) — data-driven drag-and-drop web app in React, Next.js and TypeScript with D3.js/SVG charts for game-day metrics and PostgreSQL persistence, scaled across Azure and AWS for high-traffic game days.
- Alsea Omnicalidad (Starbucks, VIPS, Burger King, Ginos, Foster’s Hollywood…) — multi-tenant, multi-brand in-restaurant & delivery ordering app in React Native, Kotlin and Swift with Paycomet payments, Firebase, PostgreSQL and Docker for the Spanish market.
- Hard Rock “Unity” — multi-property rewards & reservations app for hotels and casinos in React Native and NestJS with Stripe payments on AWS.
Honeywell R&D center — warehouse-management web app.
- Delivered a warehouse-management platform with a React/Next.js front end and a C#/.NET + GraphQL backend on Azure with SQL Server.
Global digital consultancy — marquee client engagements.
- Yarta (EagleAI, Market Intel, Livestock) — global farm-market tooling; designed and optimized SQL Server & PostgreSQL schemas with Java/Spring Boot and Node.js backends feeding a Next.js frontend.
- Citibanamex — Account Opening Partners — banking web UI for credit-card assignment and credit-line management with Maestro Avoka, Angular, Java/Spring Boot and a Headless CMS.
- Roku × HBO — performance optimization of the HBO app on Roku OS (SceneGraph, BrightScript, GraphQL) for the Justice League release; plus Pokerlabs, an internal story-pointing tool (React, Node.js, MongoDB).
“Saeko V2” — multi-role school-management platform.
- Built a role-based school-management web app in React with Storybook-driven components, Redux and reusable hooks.
Transport & restaurant products.
- Built “BuntiApp” (transport) and “Leaf” (restaurant web app) with Node.js, Express, MySQL/MongoDB, React, TypeScript, Styled Components, GraphQL and Kotlin/Android Studio.
Earlier — Brounie (“Plano Firme”): frontend web & mobile for a building-materials delivery platform with admin panel and mobile client (React, Redux, Node.js, GraphQL, Kotlin).
Things I’ve shipped.
- AI Engineer · Fortune 500 beverage company
AI Platform
01Agentic RAG platform in production: LangGraph agents, hybrid retrieval on Azure AI Search, LLM-as-judge evaluation, Langfuse tracing and an LLM-powered conversational UI with streaming responses.
- Tech Lead · Streaming
Disney
02Architected internal dashboards with interactive D3.js/SVG visualizations and streaming-management services with Kafka event streams, OAuth 2.0 / OIDC SSO and OpenAPI contracts; drove Unit + E2E testing.
- Full-Stack · Fintech
Clara
03Secure, type-safe multi-tenant microservices for a unicorn corporate-spend platform — Kafka and RabbitMQ event processing, real-time transactions and automated reconciliation.
- Full-Stack · NBA
LA Clippers
04A data-driven drag-and-drop web app for high-traffic game days — D3.js/SVG charts for game-day metrics, PostgreSQL persistence and multi-cloud scaling.
- Mobile · Multi-brand
Alsea
05In-restaurant and delivery ordering across Starbucks, Burger King, VIPS and more — one multi-tenant app shipped for Spain.
- Mobile · Hospitality
Hard Rock
06“Unity” — a rewards and reservations app for hotels and casinos, with Stripe payments on AWS.
- Frontend · Performance
Roku × HBO
07Optimized the HBO app on Roku OS for the Justice League release — close to the metal in SceneGraph and BrightScript.
- Full-Stack · Banking
Citibanamex
08Account Opening Partners — web UI for credit-card assignment and credit-line management at one of Mexico’s largest banks.
- Full-Stack · AgriTech
Yarta
09Global farm-market management tools (EagleAI, Market Intel, Livestock) with optimized SQL Server & PostgreSQL schemas.
The toolbox.
AI / LLM & RAG
- LangGraph (multi-step agents)
- LangChain
- OpenAI
- FastAPI
- Pydantic
- Prompt & tool design
- Structured outputs
- RAG (chunking, hybrid retrieval, re-ranking)
- Azure AI Search
- Langfuse (tracing & evals)
- LLM-as-judge evaluation
- Guardrails
- n8n
Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python (3.11–3.12)
- Kotlin
- Swift
- Java
- C#
- SQL
Backend & APIs
- NestJS
- Node.js
- GraphQL (Apollo Federation)
- REST
- OpenAPI / Swagger (generated clients)
- Prisma ORM
- Express
- Java / Spring Boot
- C# / .NET
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Multi-tenant microservices
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- React Native
- Redux Toolkit
- TanStack Query
- Apollo Client
- Material UI (MUI / MUI X)
- Recharts
- D3.js
- SVG data visualization
- Emotion
- Tailwind CSS
- Web Components (StencilJS / Shadow DOM)
- Angular
- Storybook
- Vite
Data & Ingestion
- Snowflake (Snowpark)
- Pandas
- SQLAlchemy
- Scrapy
- EasyOCR / OpenCV
- BeautifulSoup
- Azure Blob Storage
- python-pptx / docx
Databases
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- Snowflake
Mobile
- React Native
- Expo
- React Navigation
- Reanimated
- Firebase
- react-native-maps / Mapbox
- Android Studio
Cloud
- AWS (RDS, S3, Secrets Manager)
- Azure (AI Search, Blob, Identity)
- Microsoft Graph
DevOps & Tooling
- Nx (monorepo)
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Argo CD
- Jenkins
- CircleCI
- Fastlane
- Codemagic
- Git
- Bitbucket
- CI/CD
Testing
- Jest
- React Testing Library
- Supertest
- Pytest
- Cypress
Auth, Security & Payments
- OAuth 2.0
- OIDC / SSO
- JWT
- Passport
- NextAuth
- iframe sandbox + postMessage
- CSP
- Stripe
- Paycomet
Methods
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Clean Code
EDUCATION
B.Tech, IT Engineering
ITSOEH — Hidalgo, México · Full-Stack Web Development & Computer Science
2016 — 2020LANGUAGES
Spanish — Native · English — Advanced
STRENGTHS
Leadership, critical thinking, fast learning, focus, creativity & management.