Tobalo Torres-Valderas's Resume

Tobalo Torres-Valderas

Systems Architect, Software Developer, Investor, Entrepreneur, Advisor, Analyst, and most importantly a Life Long Student

Texas

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About

Tobalo is a technical business leader with over 9 years of experience in IT and Cloud for both Enterprise and Startups. Recent work has been developing agentic workflows and embedded AI agents into workflows and processes. Strong awareness of state of the art and latest techniques for cloud and AI engineering.

Work Experience

WhitegloveAI

Aug 2024 - Present

VP, AI Lab

  • Lead engineering team to design AI-based data engineering workflows for complex business documents, improving data serialization, structured outputs, and process automation, saving 1000+ hours for clients.
  • Designed and engineered state-of-the-art AI-enabled document OCR pipelines.
  • Provided strategic advice on AI industry updates for product strategy and technical due diligence.
  • Developed multi-model AI agents for regulated industries using Go, Python, and TypeScript.
  • Lead Architect on AI engineering design, delivery, and tailored solutions consulting.
  • Agentics
  • Technical Enablement
  • Management

Y2

Aug 2024 - Present

Founder

  • Architected and shipped multiple re-platform iterations integrating OSINT data mining for niche information flow; y2.dev flagship product serving global investors, analysts, and researchers.
  • Technical consultant for Cloud & AI engineering, developing autonomous agents for real-time intelligence gathering and analysis; designed scalable webhook/API infrastructure and cloud-native solutions across Cloudflare, Vercel, Docker, and Postgres.
  • Consulted clients on end-to-end systems architecture using TypeScript, Python, Golang, Next.js, PostgreSQL; designed pub/sub and event-driven architectures integrating multi-modal AI workflows with LangGraph, Mastra, Agno, and CrewAI.
  • Established multi-tier content strategy producing executive briefings, insider trading analysis, cybersecurity newsletters, and reindustrialization intelligence for American manufacturing and Industry 4.0 transformation.
  • Bootstrapped profitable platform from concept with zero external funding; implemented FinOps best practices and business automation systems while managing P&L and scaling technical capabilities.
  • Skills: Business Strategy, Product Development, Strategic Planning
  • Bootstrap
  • Product Engineering
  • FinOps
  • Strategy

Oracle

Aug 2018 - Jul 2024

Solutions Architect

  • Driven ~$25mm OCI ACR. Partnered with sales to build organizational relationships for business & technical problems.
  • Designed and deployed OCI landing zones for data center consolidation & migrations.
  • Onboarded customer tenancies to expedite time-to-consumption and ensure delivery success.
  • Deepened Cloud-Native engineering relationships in the OCI ecosystem.
  • Liaison for pain points from P0 security to CSAT/CX/XDR.
  • Advised day 2 operational excellence best practices with cloud-native methodologies.
  • Augmented XDR resolution times by 2x through cross-functional collaboration.
  • Finalist in Accenture OCI 2023 mastermind hackathon (space & satellite innovation) and 2024 Mastermind (edgeAI for emergency response).
  • Led program for OCI-C->OCI upgrades for 150+ clients.
  • Advised cloud security posture assessments and audits per CIS standards.
  • Certified OCI Security Professional & Architect. TPM Tiger Team for Oracle@Azure.
  • Field researcher in OCI strategic innovation - AI & Blockchain.
  • Published Blogs: 📝 Edge Data Analysis with LLMs|📝 Natural Language Querying at the Edge
  • Skills: Business Development, Strategic Planning, Data Analysis, Solution Architecture
  • Enterprise
  • OCI
  • Security
  • Databases
  • Customer Success

Freelance

Nov 2016 - Aug 2018

Web Developer

Web development for various clients.
  • Wordpress
  • HTML/CSS
  • Vanilla JS

Texas State University

Apr 2016 - May 2018

Analyst - Network Operations Center

  • Monitored Texas State University System NOC for anomalies in HVAC, network outages, and security incidents.
  • Trained new employees on support operations and data center monitoring.
  • Responded to critical systems escalations for faculty, staff, and students.
  • SOC
  • NOC

McCoy Corporation

Aug 2015 - Dec 2017

Information Systems Specialist

  • Programmed scripts to automate image deployment, software installations, and system administration tasks, saving over 100+ hours per year.
  • Implemented one-click silent software installations to streamline processes and increase efficiency.
  • Developed automation solutions for legacy IT shop at McCoy Corporation in San Marcos, TX.
  • IT Automation

Solid IT Networks, Inc.

Feb 2017 - May 2017

Networking Contractor

  • Instructed cabling team during wireless upgrade project for 100+ academic buildings and 20+ dorms with 5ghz Cisco Meraki APs.
  • Conducted quality assurance for 2,300+ wireless access points, advising on necessary changes.
  • Achieved seamless implementation of wireless network infrastructure for educational facilities.
  • Networking Contractor

Tilt.com (acquired by Airbnb)

Jul 2015 - Feb 2017

Team Lead, Growth

Managed growth of tilt.com at Texas State by hiring ambassadors, issuing promo codes, promoting events, and selling items.
  • Startups

Education

Texas State University

2014 - 2018
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems

Skills

  • React/Next.js/Vite.js
  • TypeScript
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • Cloud-Native Systems Design
  • Microservices
  • DB Systems
  • IAM/IdP
  • AuthN/AuthZ
  • LLMs/VLMs
  • Golang
  • Python
  • FastAPI/Flask
  • Ai Agent
  • System Architecture
  • Team Leadership
  • Web3
  • DAOs
  • OSINT
  • Internet Investigations

Projects

Covara

AI document processing engine for Property & Casualty Insurance

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Vercel
  • GCP
  • PostgreSQL

Gogent

Distributed log analysis system that uses embedded NATS messaging and LLM-powered agents to process and analyze system logs in real-time and at the edge.

  • Golang
  • Ollama
  • Nats.io
  • SQLlite
  • EdgeAI

Fort Worth DAO

Founded and building the leading City DAO and Crypto leadership for Fort Worth. Driving civic innovation, digital ownership workshops, and thought leadership.

  • Web3
  • Blockchain
  • IPFS
  • Community Leadership
  • Education

The Great Capitulation

Thesis on National Financial Security risk to USG + American Retirements.

  • Macroeconomics
  • Theory
  • Market Research
  • Information Capital

Ilios OCR

Lightweight, high performance document to markdown API & Worker Queue using Mistral OCR with SQLite + Turso for Embedded Cloud Syncs

  • Bun
  • Hono
  • Mistral
  • Tigris
  • Turso

Edge Healthcare Research

Healthcare research platform leveraging knowledge graphs and edge AI for market discovery and analysis

  • Knowledge Graphs
  • EdgeAI
  • Market Research
  • Market Discovery
  • Analysis

Gloria SDK

TypeScript SDK for Gloria AI - an AI-powered news protocol utilizing x402 for payments and stablecoin native infrastructure

  • TypeScript
  • Bun
  • Web3
  • AI
  • x402

Dispatchr

Enabling agentic workflows for driver assignment, driver communications, and load management for logistics company

  • Twilio
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • Agentic Workflows

Production Grade OCR with dots.ocr

Deploying dots.ocr via Truss for multilingual document layout parsing in a single vision-language model configured for Baseten inference

  • Hugging Face
  • Python
  • Bash
  • YAML
  • MLOps
  • Baseten
  • Truss