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    "name": "Danilo Díaz Tarascó",
    "label": "CTO | IoT & Embedded Systems | Cloud | IIoT | Hardware + Software",
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    "summary": "Hands-on CTO and electronics engineer with 10+ years delivering IIoT products across embedded systems, connected hardware, and AWS-backed platforms. Leads a 12-engineer team inside a 30-person company and helped drive the business from negative to positive EBITDA while supporting ~60% revenue growth over three years. Builds across the stack, from MCU firmware, PCB design, and FCC certification to serverless infrastructure and production rollouts in LATAM, the Caribbean, and the US.",
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      "city": "Medellín",
      "region": "Antioquia",
      "countryCode": "CO"
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      "name": "Sento IoT+Electronics Hub",
      "position": "Chief Technology Officer (CTO)",
      "url": "https://www.sento.tech/",
      "location": "Colombia (hybrid)",
      "startDate": "2024-06",
      "highlights": [
        "Leads a 12-engineer team setting technical vision and product roadmap for the IIoT portfolio while sustaining 99.9% uptime across deployed IoT infrastructure.",
        "Helped move the business from negative to positive EBITDA and supported ~60% revenue growth over three years by prioritizing high-value verticals from field demand.",
        "Expanded the portfolio into maritime cargo tracking, chemical dosing and control for food processing, and precision agriculture monitoring.",
        "Integrates AI tooling and automation into engineering workflows; owns architecture across embedded firmware, edge systems, and AWS backends."
      ]
    },
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      "name": "Sento IoT+Electronics Hub",
      "position": "Senior Electronics Engineer - Team Lead",
      "location": "Colombia (hybrid)",
      "startDate": "2023-02",
      "endDate": "2024-06",
      "highlights": [
        "Led a multidisciplinary team delivering IIoT systems for poultry and swine production in harsh industrial environments.",
        "Designed and validated IPC-compliant PCBs, mechanical enclosures, solar telemetry, and chemical dosing control cabinets.",
        "Managed export compliance and scaled prototypes from 3D printing to injection molding for LATAM, Caribbean, and US rollout.",
        "Applied a hardware-adapted Scrum cadence to align firmware, hardware, and cloud deliverables."
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    },
    {
      "name": "PowDevs (client: Blackline Safety)",
      "position": "Software Engineer / DevOps",
      "location": "Remote (US/Canada)",
      "startDate": "2021-11",
      "endDate": "2022-11",
      "highlights": [
        "Built fully serverless REST API infrastructure on AWS for a connected safety-device platform.",
        "Delivered infrastructure as code with CloudFormation and SAM across API Gateway, Cognito, Lambda, and OpenAPI specs.",
        "Authored Python Lambda services for data pipelines and maintained CI/CD through CodePipeline."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vantu S.A.S (now Sento IoT+Electronics Hub)",
      "position": "Development Engineer",
      "location": "Colombia",
      "startDate": "2019-06",
      "endDate": "2021-11",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed scalable IPC-compliant PCBs for self-service IoT devices deployed in harsh agricultural environments.",
        "Achieved FCC certification and built MicroPython firmware with supervisor mechanisms for availability and energy efficiency.",
        "Built AWS infrastructure for FOTA at scale and supported expansion into the US, Central America, and the Caribbean."
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    {
      "name": "Innavitas SAPI - Wiot",
      "position": "Hardware Engineer",
      "location": "Remote (Mexico)",
      "startDate": "2016-09",
      "endDate": "2019-06",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed embedded IoT systems for industrial and automotive hydrogen-generation control.",
        "Programmed MCUs in C/C++ and Arduino and designed production PCBs in Altium Designer.",
        "Built Linux-based embedded platforms, web interfaces, and computer-vision pipelines with OpenCV and Python."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Altium Canada / Upverter",
      "position": "Parts Specialist",
      "startDate": "2018",
      "endDate": "2019",
      "highlights": [
        "PCB footprint design per manufacturer specifications and IPC standards."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Universidad Simón Bolívar",
      "position": "Teaching Assistant",
      "startDate": "2016",
      "endDate": "2018",
      "highlights": []
    },
    {
      "name": "Mechatronics R&D Group, Universidad Simón Bolívar",
      "position": "Project Engineer",
      "startDate": "2013",
      "endDate": "2017",
      "highlights": [
        "ROV telemetry, power distribution boards, and robotics competition hardware."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Upwork",
      "position": "Freelance Engineer",
      "startDate": "2015",
      "endDate": "2016",
      "highlights": []
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      "institution": "Universidad Simón Bolívar",
      "area": "Electronics (Mechatronics & Power Electronics)",
      "studyType": "MSc",
      "startDate": "2020",
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      "score": "Thesis pending"
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    {
      "institution": "Universidad Simón Bolívar",
      "area": "Electronics Engineering",
      "studyType": "B.S.",
      "startDate": "2010",
      "endDate": "2016",
      "courses": [
        "Honorific mention: underwater robot (ROV) telemetry system thesis"
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    {
      "title": "1st Place, IEEE Open Category — CCSBOTS 2013",
      "date": "2013",
      "awarder": "Latin American Robotics Competition",
      "summary": "Team Giatronica."
    },
    {
      "title": "Honorific Mention — undergraduate thesis",
      "awarder": "Universidad Simón Bolívar",
      "summary": "Underwater robot (ROV) telemetry system."
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    {
      "name": "AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud-Native"
    },
    {
      "name": "AWS Fundamentals: Addressing Security Risk"
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    {
      "name": "AI Proficiency"
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    {
      "name": "Advanced Prompting Techniques"
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      "name": "Working with Reasoning Models"
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      "name": "SQL (Intermediate)"
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        "Product strategy",
        "Export readiness"
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        "EC2",
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        "CloudFormation",
        "SAM",
        "Serverless REST APIs",
        "CI/CD"
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        "Agroindustry",
        "Maritime cargo",
        "Food processing",
        "Industrial telemetry"
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      "keywords": [
        "Claude Code",
        "Codex",
        "MCP",
        "Fusion 360",
        "3D printing",
        "Injection molding"
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    {
      "language": "Spanish",
      "fluency": "Native"
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      "fluency": "Full professional (C1+)"
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      "name": "microsoft/vcpkg contribution",
      "description": "Contributor to Microsoft's C/C++ package manager; PR #50323 merged in release 2026.03.18.",
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      "name": "OpenAI Document Analyzer",
      "description": "Python app for analyzing text and PDF files with OpenAI chat models; 40+ stars.",
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        "Python",
        "OpenAI",
        "AI"
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      "name": "Personal Altium Library",
      "description": "Open-source Altium PCB component library used by engineers worldwide; 21+ stars.",
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        "Altium",
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      "name": "Fuzzy Naked Mega",
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      "name": "GW-Standalone",
      "description": "Autonomous IoT gateway firmware in MicroPython for LoPy4 (ESP32): LoRa P2P, Wi-Fi AP, and cellular uplinks; bidirectional LoRa protocol with auto-ACK and a persistent flash buffer.",
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