Charly Cardeno

Worked on diverse projects across SaaS, education, and creative industries. Delivered Product Requirements, Technical Architectures, and Risk Plans to guide execution.

Key achievements include supporting a messaging app, an AI chat for students, a marketplace for Lightroom presets, and a script reader for actors. Currently improving workflows for a cloud-based client intake platform.

Led cross-functional teams to deliver product improvements and streamline processes across finance, healthcare, and oil & gas sectors, focusing on efficiency, automation, and user satisfaction.

• Healthcare: Led the development of AI-driven solutions by integrating LLMs, boosting user satisfaction by 300% and saving 1,200+ hours per month through automation.
• Finance: Reduced a cash account reconciliation process from 3 hours to 30 minutes by designing an automated Excel tool, minimizing errors and improving accuracy.
• Oil & Gas: Directed the implementation of a new security framework, reducing approval times by 82% and improving system integrity.

Led a team of 40+ developers for three B2B products in the Netherlands, focusing on strategic planning, execution, and optimization. Took products from 0 to 1 and scaled them for increased performance and user satisfaction.

• Automated data collection for an elevator auditing startup, reducing report generation from 5+ days to seconds. Increased client onboarding by 50% in under a year.
• Rebuilt a school payment platform's architecture, enabling acquisition and expansion from 150 to 2K schools, increasing monthly payments from 200K to over 3M.
• Led migration of a financial reconciliation platform from monolithic to microservices architecture, expanding capacity from 2M to 7M monthly transactions.

When I joined Fleks, a B2B SaaS startup for job agencies, the founders were down to their last €20K. I slept on the CEO's couch to help save money while turning the company around.

• Replaced a €50/hr software house with €12/hr Colombian talent, extending runway from 2 to 8+ months while improving output quality.
• Guided the team to reduce API response times from 30+ to under 2 seconds.
• Delivered a seamless user flow enabling growth from dozens to hundreds of users in the first year.

Scientific and engineering aspects of computing, including programming, algorithms and data structures, computer architecture, database systems, computer simulations and data science.