Ivan Ponce

Architecting AI-powered backend infrastructure for a health-tech platform processing wearable data from 60+ device integrations across 170+ countries.

• Designed and implemented an AI-powered Insights Chatbot integrating multiple LLM providers (AWS Bedrock, OpenRouter), enabling natural language interaction with personal health data — launched to 120K+ users in Q1 2026.
• Built the full RAG infrastructure: short- and long-term memory management, semantic search, and contextual reasoning over millions of wearable data points.
• Developed high-performance data processing pipelines using columnar formats (Parquet) and Polars to efficiently handle large-scale wearable datasets at ingestion and query time.
• Incorporated AI-assisted development workflows (Claude, coding agents) to accelerate prototyping, system design exploration, and iterative delivery.

Building and maintaining a national-scale student enrollment platform used across multiple U.S. school districts.

• Built and maintained a large-scale enrollment platform connecting students with schools across multiple districts, each with customized admission rules and seat allocation logic.
• Developed core platform features including the guardian portal, seat management system, and administrative tools for schools and districts.
• Built complementary systems for notifications, event management, and CSM.

Building financial analysis and payment processing features for an accounts receivable automation platform.

• Worked with the CashPro team to build a customized cash flow projection product for Bank of America, enabling financial analysts to model and forecast cash positions across client portfolios.
• Designed and built the Payments Portal, a production-grade tool processing real financial transactions on behalf of Tesorio's end customers, including full test coverage and QA ownership.
• Joined the core product team supporting collections, communications, and payment workflows.

Developing backend features for a New York-based immigration case management platform.

• Built backend functionalities for Fragomen's in-house platform as part of the Configuration team, adding support for new migration case types for foreign nationals.
• Worked with Python, Django, DRF, and PostgreSQL in a large-scale legal-tech codebase.

Managing ERP integrations and customer onboarding for an accounts receivable automation platform.

• Part of the Integrations Team, responsible for syncing financial data between Tesorio and multiple ERP systems (NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage, etc.) via their APIs — ensuring data consistency for downstream product teams.
• Designed and built features for the customer registration and onboarding flow.

Leading backend development for a full legacy system rewrite for a Boston-based real estate and property management company.

• Part of a 10+ engineer team that successfully led a full legacy system rewrite over 12+ months, adopting a modern Python/Django stack from the ground up.
• Owned design and implementation of key subsystems: user management, authentication, labor & materials tracking, and a configurable rules engine.

Building a new version of an insurance and financial services comparison platform for a Colombian startup.

• Built a new version of the system migrating from a legacy stack to Python/Django, DRF, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Designed and implemented authentication flows, funnel logic, rules systems, and notification mechanisms.

Building electronic fraud detection features for financial institutions.

• Designed and built features for the DBS Client product, an electronic fraud detection platform for financial institutions.

Feature development for a major Colombian bank's loans area.

• Developed features for one of the main banks of Bogotá, working in the loans management area.

Co-founded a software development company building solutions for international clients.

• Co-founded a software development company with friends, delivering projects for international clients including a group of churches in the USA.
• First professional experience working with Python and Django.

Conversational chatbot with RAG pipeline, semantic search, and multi-provider LLM integration.

• Coming soon — project in active development

Second AI-focused project — agent, data pipeline, or CLI tool with LLM integration.

• Coming soon — project in active development

Personal portfolio and blog built with Astro, showcasing backend and AI engineering work.

• Coming soon — project in active development