{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Emilio Bogantes", "label": "Technology and AI Executive", "image": "https://ejbogantes.me/images/emilio-bogantes-portrait.jpg", "email": "emilio@ejbogantes.me", "url": "https://ejbogantes.me", "summary": "Emilio Bogantes is a Costa Rican technology and AI executive with more than 15 years in software engineering and leadership. He co-founded Pangea Holdings and was its Chief Technology Officer from March 2023 to July 2026. Earlier he was Director of Engineering at Soom, a regulated SaaS company serving medical-device manufacturers. He is a Learning Facilitator on MIT Professional Education programs, delivered in collaboration with Global Alumni, and an ad honorem professor at Universidad Nacional. He is based in Heredia, Costa Rica.", "location": { "city": "Heredia", "countryCode": "CR" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "ejbogantes", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ejbogantes" }, { "network": "GitHub", "username": "ejbogantes", "url": "https://github.com/ejbogantes" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "MIT Professional Education", "position": "Learning Facilitator, Applied Generative AI and Agentic AI", "location": "Remote", "startDate": "2025-06", "highlights": [ "In collaboration with Global Alumni.", "Program focus: Applied Generative AI for Digital Transformation.", "Mentorship and facilitation for senior leaders and global executives.", "AI use-case selection, value measurement, and delivery governance.", "Responsible AI, data readiness, security, risk, and organizational change.", "Bilingual facilitation in English and Spanish." ] }, { "name": "Independent engagements", "position": "Architecture and AI Assessment", "location": "Remote", "startDate": "2026-10", "highlights": [ "Contract assessment of application code and architecture for security, performance, maintainability, and AI integration risk.", "Findings ranked by severity and business impact, with actionable hardening recommendations." ] }, { "name": "Ignite Visibility", "position": "Solutions Architect III", "location": "Remote", "startDate": "2026-03", "endDate": "2026-07", "highlights": [ "Promoted based on sustained outcomes and stronger cross-account collaboration.", "Senior architecture reference across multiple engagements.", "Drove technical consistency, cross-team alignment, and client trust." ] }, { "name": "Ignite Visibility", "position": "Solutions Architect II", "location": "Remote", "startDate": "2024-01", "endDate": "2026-03", "highlights": [ "Cloud-native modernization and enterprise platform delivery.", "Architecture aligned with scalability, reliability, and measurable outcomes.", "Roadmaps, dependency management, and delivery milestones.", "CI/CD, operational readiness, and performance standards.", "Executive guidance on sequencing, risk, and technical trade-offs." ] }, { "name": "Pangea Holdings", "position": "Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer", "location": "Costa Rica, Remote", "startDate": "2023-03", "endDate": "2026-07", "highlights": [ "Led technology strategy and execution across distributed US and LATAM teams.", "Designed blended workforce models and vendor governance under MSA, SOW, and T&M.", "Directed enterprise integrations across Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zoho.", "Defined architecture guardrails, cloud cost management, and operational automation.", "Drove delivery accountability and contract-to-hire paths toward internal ownership." ] }, { "name": "Shrine Development", "position": "Senior Engineering Lead and Consultant", "location": "Remote", "startDate": "2023-08", "endDate": "2024-01", "summary": "Client engagement context: Fortune 100 healthcare loyalty platform.", "highlights": [ "Delivery leadership in a regulated, high-reliability environment.", "Coordinated execution across multiple pods and integration workstreams.", "Led release readiness, architecture decisions, and sequencing.", "Owned SOW execution, scope, milestones, and acceptance criteria.", "Applied secure, risk-aware engineering practices." ] }, { "name": "Soom Inc.", "position": "Director of Engineering", "location": "Greater Boston, Remote", "startDate": "2022-03", "endDate": "2023-11", "highlights": [ "Owned technology for a regulated SaaS platform with medical-device and eIFU constraints.", "Rebuilt the platform from concept to production across architecture, team, and operating model.", "Reduced delivery cycle from four weeks to one.", "Reduced cloud infrastructure cost by 80 percent.", "Automated 80 percent of manual operations.", "Scaled the engineering organization by 50 percent while maintaining delivery predictability.", "Managed vendor governance under MSA, SOW, and T&M." ] }, { "name": "Edify Software Consulting", "position": "Software Architect Technical Lead", "location": "Costa Rica, Remote", "startDate": "2021-06", "endDate": "2022-03", "highlights": [ "Architectural leadership across multiple EdTech engagements.", "Set architecture direction and delivery guardrails.", "Mentored tech leads and engineers.", "Led scalable backend and integration design.", "Combined hands-on engineering with consulting and team leadership." ] }, { "name": "Hangar Worldwide", "position": "Technology Lead", "location": "Remote", "startDate": "2019-05", "endDate": "2021-06", "highlights": [ "Enterprise digital delivery for Fortune 500 client environments.", "Drove platform strategy and architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP.", "Defined CI/CD quality controls and operational readiness standards.", "Led collaboration platforms and distributed vendor coordination.", "Supported the Nissan customer-experience platform for dealer approvals.", "Worked under MSA and SOW governance." ] }, { "name": "Hangar Worldwide", "position": "Senior Back End Developer", "location": "Remote", "startDate": "2018-05", "endDate": "2019-05", "highlights": [ "Built high-performance backend systems and scalable service architectures.", "Led technical estimation, code reviews, and performance optimization.", "Strengthened documentation and knowledge transfer practices." ] }, { "name": "Hangar Worldwide", "position": "Intermediate Back End Developer", "location": "Remote", "startDate": "2017-06", "endDate": "2018-05", "highlights": [ "Developed REST APIs using Laravel and Node.js.", "Built third-party integrations and CI/CD flows on Linux with Jenkins and Docker.", "Collaborated across cross-functional product and engineering teams." ] }, { "name": "Baum Digital Marketing", "position": "Web Developer", "location": "Costa Rica, On-site", "startDate": "2014-07", "endDate": "2017-06", "highlights": [ "Built full-stack web and product solutions across e-commerce, hospitality, and luxury sectors.", "Implemented booking platforms, third-party integrations, and custom CMS solutions.", "Worked across PHP, JavaScript, payment integrations, and data-enabled experiences.", "Partnered with design and business stakeholders to ship usable products." ] }, { "name": "Independent Consulting", "position": "Freelance Software Engineer and Technology Consultant", "location": "Remote", "startDate": "2011-12", "endDate": "2022-03", "summary": "Parallel engagements while holding full-time leadership and engineering roles.", "highlights": [ "Delivered architecture and full-stack execution for startups, growth companies, and enterprise clients.", "Advised on technology strategy, platform direction, and modernization paths.", "Worked across backend, frontend, and data modernization in multiple industries." ] }, { "name": "SEPUNA, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica", "position": "Jr. Information Systems Engineer", "location": "Heredia, On-site, Part-time", "startDate": "2011-02", "endDate": "2011-12", "highlights": [ "Started in systems administration, Linux servers, and Active Directory support.", "Contributed as webmaster and full-stack developer using PHP, Joomla, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.", "Supported technical operations and infrastructure reliability." ] } ], "volunteer": [ { "organization": "Universidad Nacional (ad honorem)", "position": "Professor", "summary": "Community education and mentorship in technology-related programs.", "startDate": "2023-03" }, { "organization": "Desafío Latam", "position": "Technology Team Lead and Mentor", "summary": "Mentored teams and supported practical technology execution pathways.", "startDate": "2024-05", "endDate": "2024-07" }, { "organization": "Docker Costa Rica", "position": "Community Lead", "summary": "Led local community initiatives and technical learning events.", "startDate": "2019-10", "endDate": "2020-03" }, { "organization": "WordCamp San José", "position": "Speaker", "summary": "Delivered public talk for the regional technology community.", "startDate": "2019-09" } ], "education": [ { "institution": "University of Cumbria, through Robert Kennedy College. Dissertation pending.", "studyType": "MBA in Artificial Intelligence" }, { "institution": "MIT Professional Education", "studyType": "Chief Technology Officer Program, Blended Professional Certificate" }, { "institution": "Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica", "studyType": "Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering" }, { "institution": "Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University", "studyType": "Software Architecture: Principles and Practices" } ], "publications": [ { "name": "What Is Headless CMS: A Guide to These Key Platforms", "publisher": "Ignite Visibility", "url": "https://ignitevisibility.com/headless-cms-platforms/" }, { "name": "The Game-Changing Benefits of SaaS for Modern Businesses", "publisher": "Medium", "url": "https://ejbogantes.medium.com/the-game-changing-benefits-of-saas-for-modern-businesses-say-goodbye-to-old-school-tech-struggles-4b4f7edc70f7" }, { "name": "Creating Your First AWS Lambda", "publisher": "Medium", "url": "https://ejbogantes.medium.com/creating-your-first-aws-lambda-821d8105e2db" } ], "languages": [ { "language": "Spanish", "fluency": "Native" }, { "language": "English", "fluency": "C2" } ], "projects": [ { "name": "Applied AI for construction materials and logistics", "description": "An AI operation that captured after-hours demand, extended customer-service capacity, and optimized delivery routing.", "highlights": [ "Avoided hiring approximately three to four additional people", "Sales increased approximately 20%", "Route costs decreased approximately 30%" ], "url": "https://ejbogantes.me/projects/ai-construction-logistics" }, { "name": "AI-enabled logistics operations", "description": "An AI layer over logistics operations that recovered missed leads and increased qualified opportunities at scale.", "highlights": [ "Sales increased approximately 15%" ], "url": "https://ejbogantes.me/projects/ai-logistics-operations" }, { "name": "Internal AI operations at Pangea Holdings", "description": "Internal AI operations that reduced manual workload and lifted sales across the organization.", "highlights": [ "Sales increased approximately 10%" ], "url": "https://ejbogantes.me/projects/pangea-internal-ai-operations" }, { "name": "AI-assisted legal research", "description": "A forensic research tool that interprets and searches a large body of legal protocols.", "highlights": [ "Complex forensic reporting reduced from about two weeks to minutes, with human verification", "Minimum viable product in two weeks, production in six", "Supported legal work connected to a claim exceeding USD 1 million" ], "url": "https://ejbogantes.me/projects/ai-assisted-legal-research" }, { "name": "AI-assisted enterprise content migration", "description": "AI-assisted migration of enterprise content from WordPress to Contentful across 15 websites.", "highlights": [ "Migrated 15 sites in approximately three to four days, including scripting and AI plus human validation" ], "url": "https://ejbogantes.me/projects/ai-content-migration" }, { "name": "Regulated SaaS transformation", "description": "A full platform reconstruction for a regulated SaaS serving medical-device manufacturers, with distributed delivery and disciplined vendor governance.", "highlights": [ "Delivery cycle reduced from four weeks to one", "Cloud infrastructure cost reduced by 80%", "Approximately 80% of manual operations automated" ], "url": "https://ejbogantes.me/projects/regulated-saas-transformation" } ], "meta": { "canonical": "https://ejbogantes.me/resume.json", "lastModified": "2026-11-05" } }