Résumé / Krystian Flores

Tucson, Arizona

Krystian Flores

Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead

10+ years building production web systems: university frontend and CMS platforms, reusable components, and AI-assisted workflows with human review.

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Experience

University of Arizona

Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead

Dec 2019 - Present
  • Lead development across admissions and enrollment sites, Drupal platform work, and internal AI-assisted brand and content workflows.
  • Built the historical Gatsby/Drupal Admissions frontend; later collaborated with CWS on arizona.edu and admissions.arizona.edu using Drupal Single Directory Components and Storybook for component testing and documentation.
  • Previously supervised two developers; continue to contribute through hands-on engineering, code review, and mentoring.
  • 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 · Collaboration

Arizona + CWS: Shared Drupal Components

Partnered with CWS as part of the university team on the arizona.edu and admissions.arizona.edu redesign, bringing both under arizona.edu with Drupal Single Directory Components and Storybook.
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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.
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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.
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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 · Drupal Single Directory Components · Storybook · 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

Education

University of Arizona, College of Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering · Minor in Mathematics

Languages

English · Spanish