Founding Engineer at Bocho. Jan 2025 - May 2026.
One of the first two engineers building Planta, an AI-agent product for professional connections.
Santiago Rivas
I am a Computer Engineer from ITBA (graduated Dec 2025), based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With over a year of professional experience building product software across the stack, my work centers on backend engineering, systems architecture, and data modeling.
Most recently at Planta, I worked in a fast-paced founding team where I bridged technical implementation with product requirements and user-facing design.
Experience
Studies. 2019 - 2025.
Computer engineering studies with a project-heavy path, from low-level C to machine learning and big data.
Projects
University Exchange Management App
Java and Spring MVC web app for managing university exchange workflows.
A sequence of AI assignments: search, genetic algorithms, perceptrons, and deep learning.
All academic and software projects collected in one place.
Articles
How a single wedding website grew into a small multi-tenant platform on Cloudflare.
Formatted article version of my essay on local AI, self-hosting, and data privacy.
Articles and notes on technology, systems, and privacy.
Now
I am looking for an opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team where I can contribute technical judgment and participate in the full lifecycle of real products.
I value environments where collaboration between technology, product, design, and business is a fundamental part of the construction process. My goal is to continue growing as a full-stack engineer while learning more about how to build software that truly makes sense for the people using it.