Jose Fabre

Build complete AI-powered tools that run directly on a user's device, ensuring data privacy while enabling powerful, offline research and knowledge organization. Implement local-first AI principles by designing generative model workflows, resulting in a robust system with decentralized knowledge-sharing features for users. Engineer an on-device Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system using local vector databases to enhance AI outputs, directly resulting in improved user privacy and full offline functionality.

Full Stack/AI Engineer at Rana, LLC. (2024-03 – Present)

• Build complete AI-powered tools that run directly on a user's device, ensuring data privacy while enabling powerful, offline research and knowledge organization.
• Implement local-first AI principles by designing generative model workflows, resulting in a robust system with decentralized knowledge-sharing features for users.
• Engineer an on-device Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system using local vector databases to enhance AI outputs, directly resulting in improved user privacy and full offline functionality.
• Develop a research agent within a web extension that autonomously analyzes and synthesizes information, enabling users to perform complex knowledge discovery.
• Lead the UI development for a knowledge base by integrating reusable components with multiple data streams, successfully creating a unified and decentralized information hub.
• Assist team during creation of custom API communication protocols for decentralized data systems, which enables dynamic, real-time updates to the user interface and improves overall application responsiveness.
• Develop a website indexer and web page scraper that recursively parses XML sitemaps to identify and extract the most relevant pages, enabling automated, high-quality data ingestion for the decentralized knowledge base.

Backend Developer at Abacrop (2022-11 – 2024-03)

• Built and improved the core engine of applications, making them faster, more scalable, and easier for developers to build together.
• Managed the full feature development lifecycle ensuring the successful and timely delivery of key product initiatives.
• Improved team coordination by establishing new communication workflows for cross-functional collaboration, leading to a 20% reduction in project blockers and accelerating development cycles.
• Designed core application logic by translating complex business requirements into optimized code, resulting in a highly scalable and maintainable backend architecture built for future growth.

Technical Mentor (Fellowship) at Parallel 18 (2023-06 – 2023-12)

• Coached new companies on how to build strong, successful products by helping them design their technology and showing them how to use AI.
• Provided mentorship to early-stage startups by advising on foundational architecture and implementation strategies, empowering them to build more robust and scalable products from the ground up.
• Conducted in-depth business needs analysis for multiple startups by assessing their core technical requirements, which resulted in actionable recommendations for scalable solutions tailored to their specific growth and security objectives.

Certification in Specialized Coursework in Machine Learning – Holberton School (2024-01 – 2024-01)

Certification in Web3 Development – Terminal34 (2023-12 – 2023-12)

Certification in Full Stack Software Engineering – Holberton School (2022-06 – 2022-06)