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Maria José González Antelo
Founder / Product & AI Engineering Lead• 19+ years
"Experienced CPO / ICT Project Director / Head of Product | 10+ Years of Experience"
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Founder / Product & AI Engineering Lead
CVChatlyNov 2025 – PresentBerlin, Germany
Founded and built end-to-end a multi-product AI platform (career identity and job-search tooling, plus a second learning product on its own host), covering product strategy, architecture, production deployment, and continuous delivery.Architected a 5-service distributed system (Next.js 16/React 19 frontend and admin, Express/TypeScript API, Python/FastAPI AI service, PostgreSQL/pgvector, Manifest V3 Chrome extension) with strict service boundaries and typed, circuit-breaker-protected inter-service clients.Designed a 10-agent LLM orchestration layer: job matching, application-bundle generation (tailored CV, cover letter, and gap analysis), career development, conversation intelligence, and analytics. It runs with per-agent kill switches, versioned prompts, and admin-selectable models per task.Built a recruiter-facing 'digital twin' chat, grounded only in the candidate's verified profile (anti-hallucination), with streaming (SSE) responses, intent detection across 9 intent types and 6 languages, conversation memory, and a recruiter workspace to match candidates against roles.Shipped a Chrome extension (MV3) that reads job descriptions on LinkedIn and ATS platforms, computes profile-to-job fit, generates application bundles, and autofills forms, including Shadow DOM and web-component ATS forms.Developed an AI-driven learning product: skill-gap-based training plans, daily agenda scheduling, EU-competition (EPSO) grade-aware practice tests, course narration (TTS), and a recruiter outreach track.Established an AI cost and reliability layer: multi-provider routing (local → Mistral → Scaleway → template fallback), hard daily budgets, semantic caching, batching, and a uniform token-gate and billing model, with Stripe.Implemented production delivery: Redis/BullMQ async pipelines (idempotent charging, retries), GitHub Actions CI/CD, Nginx load balancing across two backend instances with zero-downtime rolling releases, on Vercel + VPS + managed Postgres, with cost tuning of serverless DB usage.Led security and GDPR engineering: PII masking across AI pipelines and logs, RBAC, refresh-token rotation, cascading account deletion, signed CDN URLs for private documents, and third-party LLM data-residency reviews.Delivered multilingual support (EN/ES/FR/DE) with language detection and translation (LibreTranslate) across chat, profiles, and job matching.Owned product, architecture, AI strategy, roadmap, reliability, cost, and compliance decisions.
CPO / ICT Project Director
Metrics-drivenAt Wick Entertainment — later rebranded as Kulcho — I served as CPO and ICT Project Director across two successive AI-powered creator platforms, owning everything from product vision to technical architecture, compliance, and go-to-market execution.Defined product strategy and roadmap for two platforms targeting the creator economy, aligning engineering, design, legal, and marketing teams around a shared delivery vision.Delivered two full MVPs in under 4 months each using Scrum and Kanban, managing cross-functional teams with Jira, Notion, and Slack.Architected and managed AI integration workstreams including OpenAI-powered generative features, AWS Rekognition automated content moderation, and AI chatbot/messaging agents.Designed headless microservices infrastructure on AWS (Lambda, CloudFront, Firebase) with Next.js/React frontend, coordinating both hands-on technical work and external team management.Built and led a comprehensive compliance programme covering GDPR, the UK Online Safety Act, and the Digital Services Act, including age verification systems and sensitive content access controls across international markets.Managed full project governance: project charter, risk register, RAID log, vendor contracts, and Statements of Work throughout the lifecycle.Onboarded 2,000+ creators within 2 months through B2B partnerships and automated payout management, improving operational efficiency by 90%.
CPO / ICT Project Director / CTO / IT Director
Metrics-drivenLed product strategy, AI/ML integration and ICT project delivery for a high-traffic sustainable fashion e-commerce platform, managing cross-functional teams across engineering, data science, design and operations. AI/ML product roadmap: Google Cloud AI personalisation engine · recommendation systems · ML-driven search optimisation. Agile delivery: Scrum + Kanban · Jira · Notion · Slack · cross-functional team leadership. Automated logistics pipeline: Amazon Seller APIs · 5,000+ monthly operations. Scalable headless e-commerce architecture: hands-on technical contributions + external team management. GDPR compliance: sensitive user data handling · consent management · data retention policies across EU markets. Project governance: project charter · risk register · RAID log · stakeholder communication plans. Grew platform to 1M users and 30,000 monthly garment sales through data-driven product decisions.
Signature Projects & Case Studies
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Solidus Colaboration (Open source, Spree Commerce)
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Solidus Colaboration (Open source, Spree Commerce)
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Education & Credentials
Education
Master in business mobile, administration and company management
IEBS2015–2016
Project Management
Accenture2009–2009
Maths Degree, Statistics and Operations Research
Certifications & Licenses
Product Owner PSPO 1 Scrum
Udemy
2023
Product Owner Certification
Udemy
2023
Become a Product Manager | Learn the Skills
Udemy
2023
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Key Highlights
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Versatile
46+ technical skills
Full-stack capabilities
3 Companies
Diverse industry exposure
Adaptable & well-rounded
9 Companies
Diverse industry exposure
Adaptable & well-rounded
Leadership & Decision-Making
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Strategic Decisions
Founded and scaled a fashion rental marketplace, leading strategy, product, and technology from concept to growth stage.
Strategic Decisions
Defined strategy and roadmaps as CPO / Product Manager Director / Technical Product Manager at Kulcho
Strategic Decisions
Led global SAP HR transformation projects across 15+ countries, focusing on digital enablement, data centralization, and predictive analytics readiness.
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Other Skills
accessibilityaccount managementbrand developmentbudget managementbudgeting
Product & Leadership
agileit strategyleadershipproduct strategysales strategy
AI & Data
aidata sciencegenerative aillmmachine learning
Cloud & Infrastructure
awsaws rekognitiondockergcpci/cd
Soft Skills
client presentationcollaborationcreative directionmentoringproblem solving
Programming & Development
go-to-market strategyhtml/cssjavascriptrailsreact
Databases & Storage
postgresqlredissql
Personal Interests
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Books
Generative Deep Learning, Teaching machines to paint, write, compose and play. David Foster.Transformers for MAchine Learning, A Deep Dive. Uday Kamath, Kenneth L. Graham, Wael Emara.
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I’m passionate about shaping the next generation of AI-driven products — where intelligent systems amplify human creativity, operational efficiency, and business value.