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richlira/README.md

Hi, I'm Rich 👋

📍 Mexico City | 🤖 AI Full Stack Engineer | 🎙️ Claude Community Meetup Organizer

Swift SwiftUI TypeScript Next.js Python Claude iOS Angular

Senior Software Engineer turned AI builder. 8+ years shipping enterprise software for Fortune 500 clients. Now building AI-native apps at the intersection of Silicon Valley and Latin America.

🎙️ [Claude Community Meetup Mexico City & Monterrey] — Largest Claude community in Latin America (600+ members)

Current Projects

  • 🧠 MeetingMindAI — AI meeting assistant for iPhone: real-time transcription, intelligent questions, and summaries. Swappable cloud (Whisper + Claude) and on-device (SpeechAnalyzer + Foundation Models) providers. Zero dependencies, pure Swift 6.
  • 🌐 richlira.dev — Personal site

What I'm Building

  • On-device AI for iOS — Exploring Apple Intelligence, Foundation Models, and SpeechAnalyzer on iPhone 15 Pro+
  • AI tools for LatAm — Peso economy apps, Spanglish interfaces, WhatsApp companions, edge/offline-first AI
  • Hackathon prototypes — Claude's "4th tab" concepts
  • Community — Organizing meetups, bridging Silicon Valley ↔ Latin American developer ecosystems

Background

  • 🏢 Senior Software Engineer at Globant Mexico — Fortune 500 clients (BNP Paribas, Carnival)
  • 🎓 Master's in Software Engineering (UNIR) + Industrial Engineering background
  • 🎒 Self-funded trips to WWDC, Google I/O, OpenAI DevDay, AWS re:Invent, GitHub Universe
  • 🇲🇽 Bilingual (Spanish/English) — building with a Latin American perspective

Tech Stack

Layer Technologies
Mobile Swift 6, SwiftUI, iOS 26, Foundation Models, SpeechAnalyzer, visionOS
Frontend Next.js 15, React, Angular, TypeScript
Backend FastAPI, Python, Node.js
AI/ML Claude API, OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, pgvector
Infrastructure Vercel, AWS, PostgreSQL

Connect

Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Website GitHub

Philosophy

"Release before ready" — Ship fast, learn faster. Building AI tools that solve real problems for real people in Latin America and beyond.

Random Facts

  • 🎮 Metal Gear Solid enthusiast
  • 🎵 Vinyl record collector
  • 🤖 Run the largest Claude community in Latin America
  • 🏗️ Industrial engineer who learned to code at a bootcamp while working another job
  • ☕ Powered by Mexican coffee

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