Gabo Esquivel — Product Engineer
I build useful and delightful software products. I move between architecture and interface, deciding what belongs in the product and what should recede behind it.
15+ years of shipping software, 12+ of them building 0→1 products for startups and growth-stage teams: regulated finance, consumer Web3, production AI. I work from Costa Rica on US Mountain Time with distributed teams.
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LegalAgent
Software Engineer
An AI legal platform with Expo voice and chat, RAG for case and document context, and administrative controls.
Wink
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Costa Rica's first neobank, delivered through a React Native mobile app, AWS backend, partner-bank APIs, and biometrics.
ZTX
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A Web3 virtual world with cryptocurrency-backed digital assets, a WebGL wallet connection, and a Next.js experience.
Bitlauncher
Product Engineer
AI and crypto launchpad for token sales, batch auctions, cross-chain wallets, bridges, indexed market data, and AI-assisted investor tools.
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Right now I build AI products and Web3 products. Both are domains where the interesting work is the product around the technology: assistants people can talk to and teams can operate, wallets and markets people can follow.
- /aiAI product engineering
Voice and retrieval in the product, tools the assistant can call, and controls a team can change.
- /web3Web3 product engineering
Signing, indexed state, and interfaces around the chain.
I ship in startups, where the first version still has to hold, and in established companies, where the constraint is usually the systems already running.
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Open to direct hire, international hire, or contracting through Blockmatic Labs LLC. Cannot work under W-2. Based in Costa Rica, working US Mountain Time.
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