LLM integration
Builds AI-powered product flows around RAG, embeddings, context management, structured outputs, schema automation, policy retrieval, and human review.
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Krystian Flores
Applied AI engineer and 10+ year frontend technical lead building LLM-integrated workflows, polished product interfaces, and reusable full-stack systems.
Profile
Applied AI engineer, senior frontend engineer, and technical lead with 10+ years of experience shipping public web platforms, CMS-integrated systems, reusable component architectures, React/TypeScript interfaces, REST API-driven tools, and AI-assisted product workflows for real stakeholders.
LLM integration, senior frontend engineering, product systems, stakeholder translation, and hands-on technical leadership.
AI + Frontend Fit
Frontend depth
Brings 10+ years of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Gatsby, responsive UX, accessibility, performance, and CMS-integrated frontend delivery.
Product systems
Turns ambiguous stakeholder needs into working interfaces, APIs, review states, adoption paths, and product behavior that fits real operations.
Technical leadership
Leads by doing: feasibility framing, code review, mentoring, documentation, reusable patterns, and clear technical tradeoff conversations.
Experience
University of Arizona
Senior Web Developer / Senior Front-End Developer / Technical Lead
- Lead development across admissions, enrollment, Drupal/React platform work, CMS workflows, documentation, production support, and AI-assisted brand/content governance systems.
- Ship polished frontend systems using React, Gatsby, TypeScript, JavaScript, semantic HTML, responsive CSS, accessibility-minded markup, and reusable CMS-connected components.
- Translate ambiguous stakeholder goals into product requirements, technical tradeoffs, feasibility paths, CMS/API structures, and maintainable delivery plans.
- Collaborate with graphic designers, UX/UI designers, development leadership, marketing teams, admissions stakeholders, operations teams, and junior developers.
- Mentor junior developers through code review, Drupal workflows, frontend implementation, debugging, component architecture, and practical delivery habits.
- Extract reusable templates, CMS patterns, documentation, and implementation approaches from one-off requests so future work ships faster.
MetaSculpt AI
Co-Founder / Technical Lead
- Co-founded and shipped a public AI visibility and schema automation platform for structured metadata, search visibility, and AI-answer readiness.
- Led product architecture, AI workflow design, frontend implementation, backend planning, documentation, and deployment strategy without a dedicated engineering team.
- Designed the product workflow around a Crawl -> Generate -> Validate -> Fix model to make complex AI/search concepts usable.
- Turned crawler output, prompt context, structured metadata, and validation states into an end-to-end user workflow.
Automatit, Inc.
UX/UI Developer
- Developed high-volume custom client websites using CodeIgniter, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and frontend design practices.
- Often delivered up to four client sites in a single week while maintaining quality, responsiveness, and client-specific requirements.
- Onboarded and mentored new hires while building a strong foundation in shipping responsive frontend work quickly.
Projects
Public Work / Shipped
MetaSculpt AI
A shipped AI product that turns crawl data, prompt context, citation tracking, and structured metadata generation into a usable workflow for search and AI-answer readiness.Internal Systems / Internal
Logo Proposal Validation Agent
An internal AI-assisted brand governance workflow for logo proposals, designed around deterministic policy checks, retrieved guidance, structured outputs, reviewer-ready responses, and human review.Internal Systems / In progress
Content Writing Agent
An in-development AI-assisted writing workflow intended to help stakeholders draft clearer enrollment and brand-aligned content while preserving human review and policy constraints.Internal Systems / Prototype
Brand Guidance Chatbot
A tested chatbot concept for answering brand and policy questions, making guidance easier to find, and reducing repeated stakeholder support load.Personal Labs / Shipped
NCAA 2026 Bracket Model
A data product built from public rankings, schedules, historical tournament data, MLX models, simulations, and readable bracket outputs.Public Work / Shipped
Arizona Admissions Site Redesign
Public admissions web work for prospective students, families, admissions teams, marketing stakeholders, and university audiences.Internal Systems / Shipped
Recruitment-Focused Landing Pages
Custom recruitment-focused web experiences, often built in Next.js, supporting admissions and enrollment campaigns with polished frontend implementation, responsive UX, and campaign-specific product behavior.Personal Labs / In progress
Chicken Slap
A silly in-progress Roblox game prototype exploring fast, readable interaction loops, slap mechanics, game feel, and playable chaos.Technical Skills
AI / LLM Integration
LLM integration / OpenAI API / Gemini API / RAG / Embeddings / Context management / Prompt/workflow design / Tool-oriented workflows / Structured outputs / LLM classification / Policy retrieval / AI triage / Human-in-the-loop review / Evaluation-aware workflows / Reusable playbooks
Frontend Product Engineering
TypeScript / React / Next.js / Gatsby / JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS3 / Component systems / Responsive UX / Accessibility / Performance / CMS-integrated UI / SEO-friendly markup / Production polish
Data, Backend and APIs
Python / FastAPI / Postgres / pgvector / SQL literacy / REST APIs / JSON schemas / Runtime validation concepts / Pandas / MLX / Model evaluation / Data transformations / Docker
Technical Leadership
Stakeholder translation / Product scoping / Feasibility spikes / PR review / Mentoring / Reusable patterns / Documentation / Architecture tradeoffs / Drupal / PHP / JSON:API / GraphQL / CMS workflows / Content modeling / Data boundary awareness / AWS Lambda / S3 / EventBridge / ECS Fargate / Docker / Git / Pantheon / Multidev / Composer / Lando / Production triage