Omar Olivares Urrutia
AI / Software Engineer — LLM Systems, Agents & Evaluation
AI engineer shipping production LLM systems: agents, RAG, evals, and tool/MCP platforms. Peer-reviewed LLM evaluation work (DataEd'26: 19 models, 300 SQL cases), early engineer on a high-growth open-source coding agent (~10K GitHub stars), and production RAG for 200K+ papers. Strong in Python, FastAPI, and end-to-end ML product delivery. Open to relocating to Paris / EU.
omar@olivares.cl · +56983810103 · Providencia, Santiago, Chile — open to Paris / EU · GitHub · LinkedIn · Twitter
Experience
Maxxa Software SpA · Santiago, Chile
Fintech (credit & surety). Own production LLM platform work on the TECH team — governance, evals, observability, and agent tooling for financial products.
- Built LLM governance, evaluation, and observability for production models serving financial products
- Shipped core + enterprise LLM platform features used across internal AI products
- Built Model Context Protocol (MCP) server exposing company data and tools to AI agents and internal teams
Multi-agent LLM platform for SQL education — real-time syntactic, semantic, and logical feedback on student queries.
- Designed multi-agent pipeline for granular SQL feedback (syntax, semantics, logic)
- Benchmarked frontier LLMs (Grok, GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek) for tutoring quality
- Built eval suite: 19 LLMs × 300 cases with LLM-as-a-Judge + human-annotated ground truth
- Co-authored peer-reviewed paper accepted at DataEd'26 on LLM SQL error detection
Kilo Code · San Francisco, CA / Amsterdam
Early hire (12-person founding team) on Kilo Code, a high-growth open-source coding agent (Cline/Roo-Code lineage).
- Helped launch and scale one of the fastest-growing open-source coding agents (~10K GitHub stars)
- Built OpenRouter integrations and docs that supported #1 model ranking on OpenRouter
- Wrote developer onboarding guides and reference integrations for the agent ecosystem
- Worked with leadership on technical architecture and go-to-market (Sid Sijbrandij's team)
Emergent Mind · North Carolina, US (Remote)
Production RAG for scientific discovery — search and analysis over arXiv-scale corpora.
- Redesigned RAG (chunking + hybrid retrieval + reranking) for 200K+ indexed papers
- Built daily arXiv ingestion/indexing pipelines and W&B evaluation harness
- Shipped FastAPI + Docker services with tracing and reliability tests for production serving
Neura Pod · San Diego, CA (Remote)
Neurotech & AI content; grew channel past 80K YouTube subscribers with multiple 200K+ view videos.
- Translated frontier BCI/AI research into accessible content for a broad technical audience
Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial · Santiago, Chile
Model evaluation for LATAM Spanish-language LLMs.
clicOH · Remote
Backend engineering at logistics startup (RayoApp → clicOH acquisition).
- Backend development and post-acquisition system integration
- Maintained legacy systems while migrating features to the new architecture
Suncast · Las Condes, Chile
Renewable-energy forecasting platform; helped move a monolith toward microservices.
- Refactored services and APIs; optimized database queries for forecasting workloads
Education
Postgraduate Diploma · Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (CENIA)
- LLM Fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT)
- Production ML (PyTorch, MLflow, W&B)
- Multimodal Models & RAG Systems
- Ethical AI & Bias Management
Engineer's degree · Universidad Católica del Maule · 5.71/7
- Thesis: Fine-tuned GPT-3.5 for Chile's PAES math exam — accuracy 0.78 → 0.94 (+20%)
- Data Structures & Algorithms, Databases, Distributed Systems, AI/ML
Engineer's degree (coursework) · Universidad de Talca
Publications
DataEd'26: International Workshop on Data Systems Education
Empirical evaluation of 19 LLMs on SQL error detection (300 cases): LLM-as-a-Judge + human ground truth. Implications for automated tutoring systems.
Universidad Católica del Maule
Fine-tuned GPT-3.5 for PAES mathematics; accuracy 0.78 → 0.94 (+20%) with targeted optimization and OCR/transcription pipelines.
Projects
Automated EPUB generator for Paul Graham's essays — #1 on Hacker News, 800+ GitHub stars
PythonOpen Source
Agentic personal finance assistant with live bank API integration (36h hackathon)
Anthropic APIAgentsFastAPI
Recognition
Fundación País Digital | EY
Traffic monitoring from CCTV streams (congestion/anomaly detection), designed to scale across many cameras.
Cambridge English
Skills
Languages & Interests
Spanish (Native) · English (Full Professional (IELTS C1 7.5))
Technology · Creative