Guillermo Rodas

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer · Stockholm, Sweden

me@guillermorodas.comguillermorodas.comgithub.com/glrodaszlinkedin.com/in/guillermorodas

Summary

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with 14 years of experience building production systems at the intersection of web engineering and AI. At EQT Group I build agents, RAG pipelines and MCP integrations for the investment teams, after building microfrontend platform infrastructure at Klarna and identity products at Auth0. Former Google Developer Expert, international conference speaker and bootcamp instructor.

Experience

EQT Group · Global investment organization, €350B+ in assets

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

  • Take the investment team's hackathon prototypes to production: agentic screening of add-on M&A targets and an earnings-call screener, delivered as reusable agent skills over MCP data connectors.
  • Contributed to the internal platform for AI agents (model gateway, agent identity, MCP layer); defined its adoption funnel metrics and built the usage dashboard.
  • Built LLM tools for investment screening, with RAG over proprietary deal data (PGVector, LangChain) and LangSmith observability in production.
  • Established the foundations of a shared Design System with component scaffolding and automated testing across internal products.

Klarna · Global fintech serving 87M+ consumers

Engineer (Foundations team)

  • Designed and maintained 20+ shared microfrontend UI packages consumed by 5+ product teams across checkout, payments and consumer products.
  • Moved the team from 5–10 scattered micro-deployments to a daily deployment cadence with on-demand hotfixes.

Auth0 · Cloud identity platform, now part of Okta

Engineer

  • Developed internal products powering platform operations (React, Redux, Hapi.js, MongoDB); introduced Storybook and snapshot testing to prevent regressions.

Huge · Global digital agency for Fortune 500 brands

Web Engineer

  • Built a cross-browser, cross-device fintech web app with React and Redux, and led frontend on a performance-critical mobile web app.

Komet Sales · SaaS platform for the floral industry

Full-stack Developer

  • Delivered corporate projects in Java (Spring, Hibernate) and MySQL, and led the definition of the frontend architecture.
  • Drove the migration from SVN to Git and the adoption of Scrum.

Selected projects

Skills

AI & LLM
Google ADK, Gemini on Vertex AI, LangChain, LangSmith, MCP servers and connectors, RAG with PGVector, CopilotKit, agent evals, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
AI-first engineering
Claude Code, Cursor, reusable agent skills, PR-based review
Backend platforms
Node.js (Express, Fastify, Hapi.js), Python (FastAPI), Go, Rust, GraphQL, REST
Frontend frameworks
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Redux, Zustand, Storybook, Design Tokens, Tailwind CSS
Cloud & DevOps
GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Workflows, BigQuery), AWS, Cloudflare (Workers, D1, Pages), Firebase, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog
Data
PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MongoDB, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Firestore
Auth & Identity
OAuth, OIDC, Auth0, WebAuthn and Passkeys
Testing
Playwright, Vitest, Jest, Storybook interaction tests

Education

UX Designer Upskill · Hyper Island

Systems engineering (undergraduate) · Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Recognition & speaking

Google Developer Expert
Web Technologies2019 – 2025
Auth0 Ambassador
Identity & Security2022 – 2024
The Language of AI: Probability
DevFest OurenseNovember 2025 · DevFest MediterraneanDecember 2025
WebAuthn & Passkeys: The Future of Authentication
DevFest Singapore, EpicHey!November 2023 · DevFest ZagrebOctober 2023
Bootcamp Instructor
Código FacilitoOctober 2022, February 2023, March 2024 · Undefined AcademyMarch 2023 – October 2023 · Platzi MasterNovember 2020 – September 2022 · World Tech MakersJune 2017 – August 2017