Krystian Flores · Senior product engineer

AI-enabled web products. Leadership, hands-on.

I’m a senior product engineer building AI-enabled web products—and a technical lead who stays close to the code. My 10+ years of shipped work spans public products, internal review workflows, and university platforms.

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MetaSculpt interface showing an action brief, visibility chart, account navigation, and login surface
Public MetaSculpt interface. I co-founded the product and owned AI workflow design, crawler and reporting logic, documentation, and code review with a co-founder.
Krystian Flores smiling in an Arizona cap
Krystian Flores · Tucson, Arizona
  • 10+ years shipping production web systems
  • Public AI product co-founded and shipped
  • < 1 minute for clear logo-review cases, down from about 10 minutes

Selected work

Shipped work and the decisions behind it.

Start with MetaSculpt, the internal logo-review workflow, and public university frontend work. Project status is shown on every case study.

MetaSculpt interface showing an action brief, visibility chart, account navigation, and login surface
Public MetaSculpt interface. I co-founded the product and owned AI workflow design, crawler and reporting logic, documentation, and code review with a co-founder.
01 Shipped 2024 - 2025

MetaSculpt AI

Co-founded and shipped a public product combining prompt tracking, citation capture, crawl analysis, weekly reports, and Schema JSON generation and validation.

  • Led product architecture, AI workflow design, frontend implementation, crawler and report logic, documentation, and code review in a two-person company.
  • Designed the Crawl → Generate → Validate → Fix flow and kept crawler and generator responsibilities separate.
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ProposalPolicy checksRetrieved guidanceHuman decision
ApproveDenyClarifyEscalate
Internal logo-review workflow I designed. Deterministic checks and retrieved policy context support the reviewer; ambiguous cases stay in human review.
02 Shipped internally 2024 - Present

Logo Proposal Validation Agent

Designed and shipped an internal logo-review workflow combining deterministic policy checks, retrieved guidance, structured output, and human review.

  • Owned project inception, architecture, development, publishing, documentation, and stakeholder coordination.
  • Routed clear cases through approve or deny paths and unclear cases through clarification or escalation.
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Arizona Admissions overview page at desktop and mobile widths
Desktop and mobile admissions pages. I owned development between the shared university header and footer and mapped Drupal paragraph types to reusable Gatsby components.
03 Shipped

Arizona Admissions Site Redesign

Owned frontend development for a public admissions redesign, stabilizing its Gatsby and Drupal implementation after a technical-lead transition.

  • Owned the experience between the shared university header and footer.
  • Mapped Drupal paragraph types to reusable Gatsby and GraphQL-powered components.
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University of Arizona commitment campaign page at desktop and mobile widths
Desktop and mobile views of a recruitment campaign site. I owned routing, components, frontend implementation, and deployment.
04 Shipped

Recruitment-Focused Landing Pages

Owned routing, components, frontend implementation, and deployment for audience-specific recruitment sites, often built in Next.js.

  • Built custom admissions and enrollment campaign sites rather than adapting a generic landing-page template.
  • Implemented audience-specific routes and reusable frontend components.
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How I work

Curious about the system. Practical about the outcome.

I’m happiest untangling a complicated workflow, making the interface feel obvious, and leaving behind a system other people can keep using.

Start with the messy workflow

I look for the handoff, edge case, or editor constraint that decides whether a product works outside the happy path.

Make the system inspectable

Whether the output comes from a CMS or a model, people should be able to understand its state, review it, and decide what happens next.

Leave a reusable path

The strongest implementation gives the next developer or content editor a pattern they can safely use without me in the room.

After-hours build

Yes, I turned March Madness into a data product.

The NCAA 2026 Bracket Model started as an office-pool question and became an end-to-end lab: public data collection, feature engineering, model evaluation, Monte Carlo simulation, and a playful interactive interface.

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Career through-line

Builder first. Technical leadership through implementation.

The stack has changed; the pattern has not. I take ambiguous work from constraints to a shipped interface, then leave a reusable path for the team.

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  1. 2017 - 2019 Agency craft

    Responsive, client-specific sites delivered inside a high-volume production workflow.

  2. 2019 - Present University platforms

    Admissions, recruitment, Drupal systems, mentoring, production support, and internal AI workflows.

  3. 2024 - 2025 Public AI product

    MetaSculpt moved from prototype to public launch in a two-person company.