Ismael Serratos

Principal software engineer

I build AI systems that act, and I spend most of my time on what happens when they act wrong.

Writing

  1. My Current AI workflow
  2. Build systems around trust
  3. The tinkerer
  4. Stop starting with code
  5. What’s not working for me with AI-assisted coding
  6. Technical interviews

Now

Current
Principal software engineer. Building agentic systems for regulated industries, guardrails, training small models and building AI governance tools.
Past
Principal software engineer in health tech, fintech, and e-commerce. Head of engineering in event tech and SaaS. Product and engineering in big tech. Founder of companies in security, developer tools, and model systems.
Education
Computer Science. Embedded systems design. Art direction.

About

Most of my work now is AI and security: systems that can act, and the ways they fail.

I also take photos and make music. Same habit as the engineering. Most of it does not ship.

I would rather write less software and be able to stand behind it.

Elsewhere