Personal details
Juan S.
Technical skills
About
Technology executive with 24+ years of global experience leading frontier innovation across AI, Web3, and fintech. Proven success scaling startups to high-growth ventures, architecting resilient cloud-native infrastructure, and delivering transformative digital platforms. A builder-founder hybrid with hands-on technical depth, a bias for action, and a sharp instinct for market alignment.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
- Built BCB’s crypto payment rails from zero to $1B+ volume; platform now processes $100B annually.
- Delivered regulated DeFi and RWA tokenization stack at MANTRA from ground-up to launch.
- Led tech strategy and raised 9M AUD during CanYa’s successful ICO as CTPO.
- Built real-time AI avatar framework integrating LLMs, STT, TTS, and 3D expressiveness.
- Selected by Antler VC for elite Entrepreneur in Residence program.
- Advised Coworker.ai through early ups and downs, hiring, ideation, and collaborations. They’ve now raised $13M to scale enterprise AI agents.
Work Experience
Led the development of an AI-native platform for real-time digital workers, integrating open-source LLMs, voice synthesis and 3D interaction.
- Led end-to-end design and execution of a modular platform for autonomous AI agents with real-time voice, emotion, and tool-calling capabilities.
- Shipped production-ready APIs for deploying digital workers across creative, fintech, and automation use cases.
- Explored AI-agent UX for DeFi primitives, unlocking programmable on-chain workflows powered by agents.
Selected to join Antler’s elite EIR program. Collaborated with world-class founders on venture ideation, business model validation, and early-stage product-market fit exploration.
- Co-created multiple zero-to-one product pitches with top-tier founders.
- Tested founder-market fit hypotheses through structured experiments and investor validation. Conducted deep dives on emerging sectors including RWAs, AI interfaces, and agentic systems.