Hi, I'm Ricardo Guzmán,

I lead infrastructure digitalization at Banco BASE, modernizing the platforms behind a bank's digital and foreign-exchange operations. Over fifteen years in technology operations, from server rooms to cloud platforms. Outside of work I build and run AI agents, with one rule: the model proposes, the code decides.

• Design and operate autonomous agents on Kubernetes: a multi-agent assistant, an SRE agent that fixes the cluster, a GitOps agent, and trading agents.
• Run a self-hosted platform with private container registry, GPU inference, Vault, ArgoCD, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Write in public about what I build, including the parts that lose money and why.
• Teach as an AWS re/Start Accredited Instructor.

Work

Systems I designed, built and operate

• Agents Amael · Multi-agent assistant on LangGraph. A planner splits the request, an executor runs the steps, a supervisor judges the result. Self-hosted models on GPU, per-user RAG, WhatsApp and web. Overview · Source
• SRE Raphael · Watches the cluster every minute, diagnoses anomalies with a model against a runbook library, remediates within guardrails, verifies the outcome and writes its own runbooks each night. Private
• GitOps Camael · Turns each incident into a manifest patch, a pull request and a change record. A human approves the merge. Private
• Trading OptionWright · Options agent built solo in a week for the Alpaca hackathon. The model picks a direction; code chooses strikes, sizes to a fixed max loss and applies the risk gates. Live dashboard · Source
• Trading Trader · Longer-running equities and crypto agent. Business rules live in Postgres with change history; stops execute in code, never in the prompt. Private
• Platform The cluster · Everything above runs on Kubernetes I operate like production: registry, GPU scheduling, Vault, Kong, ArgoCD, and a full observability stack. Private

Writing

Build logs from the Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon

• 04 Sep 2026The week ended down 7.4%, and the numbers said exactly why
• 02 Sep 2026My agent had been skipping half its cycles, and nothing crashed
• 01 Sep 2026The honest version of a green day: which half was luck
• 31 Aug 2026First real trade: the model gets an opinion, not the checkbook

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Experience

Banking, microfinance and retail

• 2024 —Head of Infrastructure Digitalization, Banco BASE. Cloud, Kubernetes, automation and observability under financial-sector constraints.
• 2022 — 2023IT Operations Manager, Macropay. Vendor strategy, service levels, compliance and AWS cost optimization.
• 2015 — 2022IT & Cloud Operations, Fundación Rafael Dondé. Seven years moving applications from physical servers to Docker and Kubernetes on AWS.
• 2010 — 2015Environments and systems engineering, Gentera, Banco Compartamos, Hanesbrands. Linux, AIX and Windows in production banking environments.

Get in touch

Mérida, México

Open to conversations about infrastructure modernization, platform engineering and AI agents where reliability matters.
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