Sandro Ospina

Chemical Engineer with 25 years of hands-on experience in the metalworking and coatings industries. Throughout my career I have built my own tools and software to solve real operational problems. In the last year, I have been using Claude Code to develop AI-powered applications — including a live SaaS product.

I am an industrial professional, not a traditional software developer. My value is knowing exactly what problems need to be solved on the plant floor — and being able to build the tools to solve them using Claude Code. Over 25 years I have consistently developed my own software alongside my engineering work.

In the past year, Claude Code has allowed me to build more sophisticated applications faster, including a deployed SaaS product used by real companies.

Independent Industrial Consultant (2023 – Present)

Consulting for companies in Colombia and internationally on process improvement and plant optimization in the metalworking and coatings industries.

• Built Dokumentor (dokumentor.app) — an AI-powered document chat application developed with Claude Code over the past year. Companies upload PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, or Google Drive content and interact with it via natural-language chat, with responses citing exact document sections. Designed for industrial use cases: operator manuals, SOPs, manufacturing documentation. Live SaaS with tiered plans (Free, Silver, Gold, Enterprise).

Senior Engineer / Technical Director at Metalworking & Coatings Sector (2000 – 2023)

Led production and engineering departments. Managed multidisciplinary teams and ensured quality and productivity targets.

• Throughout this period, consistently developed custom internal software tools to support plant operations — MES systems, quality control tools, and production tracking — using available platforms including Velneo.
• International Speaker (last 2 years): Speaker at industrial conferences focused on the metalworking industry, covering operational innovation and process improvement.

Chemical Engineering – Universidad Industrial de Santander