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.
Fifteen years of shipping software, twelve of them leading 0→1 product work: regulated finance, consumer Web3, production AI. I work from Costa Rica on US Mountain Time with distributed teams.
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An AI and crypto launchpad for token sales, batch auctions, cross-chain wallets, bridges, and indexed market data.
I ship in startups and established companies. The current focus is AI product engineering and Web3 systems.
The career story is on /bio. The employment record is on /cv.
Writing
AI Agents are Infrastructure
May 20, 2026
The Forward Deployed Engineer
April 1, 2026
Engineering in the AI Era
February 10, 2026
Tokenization
January 20, 2026
Agentic Commerce
January 13, 2026
Evolution of AI UX
January 11, 2026
Why I'm Bullish on 2026
November 15, 2025
Intersection of AI and Web3 (Part 2)
November 13, 2025
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Open to direct hire, international hire, or contracting through Blockmatic Labs LLC. Based in Costa Rica, working US Mountain Time.
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