Résumé

Krystian Flores

Senior product engineer building AI-enabled web products; a technical lead who stays close to the code.

Senior product engineer and hands-on technical lead with 10+ years shipping production web systems. Leads frontend delivery across University of Arizona admissions and Drupal platforms, builds internal AI-assisted workflows, and co-founded MetaSculpt AI.

Selected evidence

Public AI product

Co-founded and shipped MetaSculpt AI, including crawl analysis, prompt and citation tracking, recurring reports, schema generation, and validation.

Governed AI workflow

Designed and built an internal logo-review workflow with deterministic checks, retrieved policy guidance, structured outputs, and human escalation.

Frontend platforms

Built admissions, recruitment, and Drupal platform work with reusable components, responsive interfaces, accessible markup, and editor-managed content.

Experience

University of Arizona

Senior Web Developer (frontend technical lead)

Dec 2019 - Present
  • Lead development across admissions and enrollment sites, Drupal platform work, and internal AI-assisted brand and content workflows.
  • Built React and Gatsby frontends backed by Drupal JSON:API and GraphQL, mapping editor-managed content to reusable, responsive components.
  • Review code, debug production issues, document component and CMS patterns, and mentor junior developers while translating stakeholder requirements into implementation decisions.

MetaSculpt AI

Co-Founder (technical lead)

Aug 2024 - 2025
  • Co-founded and shipped a public AI visibility and schema automation platform for structured metadata, search visibility, and AI-answer readiness.
  • Owned AI workflow design, crawler logic, prompt tracking, recurring report logic, documentation, and code review with a co-founder.
  • Built workflows for crawl analysis, schema generation and validation, competitor and citation tracking, experiment tracking, and weekly insight reports.

Automatit, Inc.

UX/UI Developer

2017 - 2019
  • Built custom client websites using CodeIgniter, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap.
  • Often delivered up to four responsive, client-specific sites in a week.
  • Onboarded and mentored new hires in the agency's high-volume delivery workflow.

Selected projects

Public Work · Shipped

MetaSculpt AI

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

Internal Systems · Shipped internally

Logo Proposal Validation Agent

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

Internal Systems · Shipped internally

Content Writing Agent

Designed and shipped an internal AI writing workflow with channel-specific briefs, approved research sources, writing guidance, saved examples, and human review.

Technical Skills

AI product work

OpenAI API · Gemini API · RAG · Embeddings · Prompt and workflow design · Structured outputs · LLM classification · Policy retrieval · Human-in-the-loop review · Schema generation

Production frontend and CMS

TypeScript · React · Next.js · Gatsby · JavaScript · Semantic HTML · CSS · Component systems · Responsive interfaces · Accessibility · Performance · Drupal · PHP · JSON:API · GraphQL · CMS content modeling

Backend and data projects

Python · FastAPI · Postgres · pgvector · REST APIs · JSON Schema · Pandas · MLX · Model evaluation · Docker

Hands-on technical leadership

Stakeholder translation · Product scoping · Feasibility spikes · PR review · Mentoring · Reusable patterns · Documentation · Architecture tradeoffs · CMS workflows · Git · Pantheon · Multidev · Composer · Lando · Production triage