People Made Machines

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Pushing the boundaries of AI to deliver exceptional solutions for world-class clients.

• Role: CTO
• Dates: September 2024 - Present
• Location: Oslo (Norway)

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AImade.art

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In 2019 Arturo founded AImade.art, an online gallery that sells one-of-a-kind artworks generated by Artificial Intelligence and minted as NFT on Ethereum's own blockchain.

The algorithm that Arturo adapted is based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). After over 1200 hours of training using +20k public domain oil paintings, this AI was able to generate from scratch new portrait, landscape and abstract artworks.

AImade.art has been featured by Aftenposten, Re-Work, DND and Spansk Kultur, among others.

The business flourished during the NFT wave, becoming one of the best-selling AI Art collections on Opensea and leading the search rankings for this kind of products. The company was acquired by an American investor in 2021.

• Role: Founder & Crypto AI Artist
• Dates: August 2019 - September 2021
• Location: Oslo (Norway)

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Accenture

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Arturo started his career in Accenture at The Dock, a global innovation hub for emerging technologies. He was leading the development of large cross-industry projects that apply cutting-edge research on Artificial Intelligence to different verticals.

In August 2017 he transferred to Accenture Norway, where he became Senior Manager, Generative AI Lead in the Nordics, Head of Experience Platforms in the Nordics and Country Lead of Digital Product Creation, leading the development of innovative solutions to complex problems for world-class clients. He is a certified AI Engineer, Technology Architect, Data Architect and SAFe Practicioner.

• Role: Senior Manager | GenAI Lead | Head of Experience Platforms | Head of Digital Product Creation
• Dates: Nov 2016 - Aug 2024
• Location: Oslo (Norway)

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Fantasaur.com

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In 2023 Arturo developed for his child an AI-powered app that generates customized bedtime stories. Overwhelmed by the feedback from his early adopters, he further developed the project and launched Fantasaur.com.

• Role: Founder & Developer
• Dates: July 2023 - Present
• Location: Oslo (Norway)

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Kobadoo

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Arturo ideated and developed the popular memory game Kobadoo. It is a browser game developed in ReactJS that trains your brain by memorizing emojis, playing cards, numbers, arithmetic calculations, flags or geometric shapes. Children can also learn new words in different languages using the Kids mode. Using different growth-hacking techniques, Kobadoo has reached dozens of thousands of unique monthly users.

When you play Kobadoo, you are actively using your working memory. Several scientific studies suggest that training of working memory has beneficial effects and can increase your cognitive functions.

• Role: Founder & Developer
• Dates: Feb 2021 - Present
• Location: Oslo (Norway)

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Fundación General de la Universidad de La Laguna

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Arturo was the lecturer of the online course Startup Innovation Lab, which is part of a Government-funded special program for unemployed young people with university degrees. This course lasts three weeks and runs six times a year.

These are the ten topics of the course:

• Lean Startup methodology
• Lean Canvas and Business Model Canvas
• Business Metrics
• Market Research
• Minimum Viable Product
• Revenue Streams
• Setting up a company
• Funding your company
• Business Plan
• Pitch

• Role: Lecturer on Entrepreneurship and Lean Startup
• Dates: May 2017 - May 2018
• Location: Tenerife (Spain)

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Sedicii Innovations Limited

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Sedicii is a multi-award winning startup that provides identity verification services, eliminating the need to transmit sensitive data over the network using their patented Zero-Knowledge Proof technology. In 2015 Sedicii was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, that recognizes technologies with the potential to change the world.

As CTO Arturo was leading the development of an identity verification SDK and integrating it in their partners' solutions with the highest standards of security, reliability and performance.

• Role: CTO
• Dates: Dec 2014 - Jun 2017
• Location: Dublin (Ireland)

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XchangeUp

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XchangeUp was a P2P currency exchange app that enabled users to securely connect with other trusted users at airports in order to exchange foreign currency for the exact fair rate.

As a CEO and CTO Arturo was leading the business strategy and technical architecture design for this platform, aiming to evolve rapidly with customer feedback, become revenue generating, raise seed funding and fuel up the growth engine.

XchangeUp was one of the 30 startups selected, among 150 applicants, to participate in National Entrepreneurs Development Program - New Frontiers Phase 1 in 2017.

• Role: Co-founder, CEO and CTO
• Dates: Jan 2017 - May 2017
• Location: Dublin (Ireland)

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ADAPT Centre

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ADAPT is a dynamic research center that combines the world-class expertise of 120+ researchers at four top Irish universities with that of its industry partners to produce ground-breaking digital content innovations.

His role as a Senior Research Software Architect based at Trinity College Dublin was to lead the development of research projects in the areas of machine learning, team collaboration and ethics.

Arturo was responsible of implementing the Scrum framework in his team, along with software engineering best practices (clean code, TDD and continuous integration). In addition, he was frequently invited to lecture in the e-Business II and Networked Applications I courses in Trinity College Dublin.

Finally, he co-organised and presented the Machine Learning Dublin, a monthly meetup that grew from 0 to 1400 members in 10 months; and he was tutor at the All-Ireland Linguistics Olympiads.

• Role: Senior Research Software Architect
• Dates: Sept 2014 - Nov 2016
• Location: Dublin (Ireland)

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Dialective Ltd.

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As CTO of Dialective Ltd Arturo was coordinating the Product Management and Development of five different products:

• Dialective: web tool to create online catalogs to promote and sell products or services.
• Rebajapp: app to get discounts in SMEs in exchange for Facebook likes and posts.
• Copromly: web app that uses co-promotion in order to get increase your blog audience.
• Greenweaving: web service to contact potential customers via Linkedin inMails.
• Obfuscriptor: web app to obfuscate and compress Javascript code.

Dialective was presented in 7 countries, and won some international awards. We were selected to participate in Imagine Creativity Center (Silicon Valley) and Oxygen Accelerator (London).

Dialective was revenue generating, had 5 employees, thousands of users and raised $180K from seed investors.

• Role: Co-founder and CTO
• Dates: May 2012 - March 2015
• Location: London (UK)

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iFlikeU Inc.

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iFlikeU was an Android and Facebook app that let you find matches among your Facebook friends while keeping your identity safe. Using PHP and Phonegap technologies, iFlikeU included other features such as an anonymous messenger and a match-maker tool. It was featured in tech blogs such as Geeksroom and wwwhatsnew.

My role as CEO of the company was validating the value proposition following the Lean Startup principles and helping in the development of the minimum-viable-product.

• Role: Co-founder and CEO
• Dates: Sept 2012 - Sept 2014
• Location: Delaware (USA)

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Hertz Corporation

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Hertz is the world leader in the car rental industry, with presence in 145 countries. The new Rental System, that processes 5.5 million car rentals per year, was being developed by the large multinational team that he joined in June 2011.

My main responsibilities as IT Business Analyst were:

• Deliver projects to the Production environment meeting the business and system enhancement requirements.

• Analyse and prepare detailed functional system specifications for the development of new functionality or enhancements to the existing application. Provide detailed specifications to the programmers to achieve required changes.

• Complete system/user testing on new functionality or enhancements to the existing application. Ensure users acceptance of changes.

• Ensure changes releases are complete and follow up with users on issues/problems. Ensure follow up with end users on changes released so as to solve and eliminate outstanding issues.

• Develop automated testing scripts (Watir/Ruby) that are included in the regression testing suite that is run every day.

• Role: IT Business Analyst
• Dates: Jun 2011 - Jul 2012
• Location: Dublin (Ireland)

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Spanish Basketball Federation

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Arturo was coordinating the technological projects in the Sports Department of the Spanish Basketball Federation. My main responsibilities were:

• Development of the Referee Club and the Coach Club, tailor-made e-learning tools that have significantly increased productivity in the organization, reducing costs, and have been exported to over twenty Regional, National and International Federations.

• Communication with International Federations, especially in regard to referees.

• Technical support in training activities and events.

• Video production to support player, coach and referee training. Image editing and publishing.

• Role: Software Engineer
• Dates: Feb 2006 - Jun 2011
• Location: Madrid (Spain)

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Castilla y Leon Basketball Federation

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Arturo helped the FBCyL become one of the leading Spanish sport federations in terms of technology by architecting a Web 2.0. platform that provided different services online. This platform had a huge impact in reducing the administrative costs and improving the media coverage.

His responsibilities included:

• Website development and administration.

• Database design and administration.

• IT Consultancy for new projects.

• Technical support in events.

• Role: IT Consultant
• Dates: Aug 2005 - Jun 2011
• Location: Valladolid (Spain)

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