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Full stack development
End-to-end product engineering across frontend, backend and data — one partner accountable for the whole system.
Outcome: One owner for the entire stack.
ReactNode.jsTypeScript
Available for new projects · Q4 2026
I build scalable software, AI agents and MVPs that move businesses faster.
I'm Jorge Bastidas — decode9, and CTO at The Empire. For 10+ years I've shipped scalable architectures, automation and production-ready products for founders, SaaS teams and companies that need senior engineering they can trust.
- Based in Argentina
- Available worldwide · remote
- Building since 2014
A senior engineer who ships — and leads.
I'm Jorge Bastidas, the engineer behind decode9. Since 2014 I've designed and built software across the entire stack — from the infrastructure and data underneath to the interface founders demo to investors.
Today I'm also CTO at The Empire, where I lead the engineering behind products like Solvo, Finami and Desaparecidos Terremoto Venezuela — from the first architecture decision to production, and the teams that keep them running.
Whether you're validating an idea, scaling under load or drowning in manual process, the goal is the same: turn complexity into a system that works — and keeps working.
Jorge Bastidas
Founder & engineer · decode9 — CTO · The Empire
- years shipping software
- 10+
- flagship products led
- 6
- users in one week on a single launch
- 52k
profile.json
- role
- Senior Full Stack Engineer · CTO
- experience
- 10+ years · since 2014
- focus
- Architecture · AI agents · Automation
- location
- Argentina · worldwide
- engagement
- Remote · contract / partnership
- status
- Open to new work
From idea to production — engineered end to end.
Senior capability across the full lifecycle. Pick a single service or a complete technical partnership.
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MVP development
Validated, production-ready MVPs built to demo, raise and grow — not throwaway prototypes you'll rewrite.
Outcome: Launch in weeks, not quarters.
Next.jsNode.jsPostgres
03
Automation systems
Automate manual operations and connect the tools your business runs on, with reliable, observable pipelines.
Outcome: Hours of manual work removed weekly.
Node.jsPythonn8n
04
Scalable architecture
Systems designed to grow — clean service boundaries, queues and data models that hold under real load.
Outcome: Infrastructure that scales with you.
ServerlessQueuesMySQL
05
AI agents & products
LLM agents that act on real data with guardrails in code — like Solvo — measured, guarded and shipped.
Outcome: AI that ships, not demos.
LLM toolspgvectorGuardrails
06
Infrastructure & DevOps
Serverless and containerized infrastructure as code, with CI/CD you can trust — repeatable, observable, boring in the best way.
Outcome: Deploys you don't fear.
TerraformAWSDocker
07
Technical leadership
CTO-level guidance on architecture, technical strategy and teams — senior judgment when the decision matters.
Outcome: The right call, the first time.
ArchitectureCode reviewTeams
08
Process optimization
Map, streamline and automate the processes behind your operation — less overhead, more throughput.
Outcome: Less overhead, more output.
AutomationIntegrationsData
Don't take my word for it — run it.
Small live demos of the kind of systems I build. Everything runs in your browser.
Automation pipeline
A WhatsApp lead qualified by AI, synced to the CRM, invoiced and announced to the team — without a human touching it.
- WhatsApp lead
- AI qualifies
- CRM sync
- Invoice
- Team notified
Press run to watch a lead flow through.
0hmanual hours saved per week
Resilience lab
Three patterns I reach for in every production app — simulated so you can see what they do.
Type in the box: every keystroke is an event, but only the pause fires a request.
- keystrokes
- 0
- requests
- 0
How the guide answers
What happens between your question and the reply, step by step.
Illustrative trace — not live telemetry
Your questionAsk the guide something, then replay it here.
Receive
The message reaches the agent with this visit's session.
Retrieve
Semantic search over decode9's knowledge base, with the source kept.
Guardrails
The draft is checked in code: on-topic, no invented facts.
Answer
The reply comes back — or a human takes over from the panel.
Real products, in production.
Products I've led end to end — most of them built with The Empire.
LiveProduct & engineering studio
The Empire
Role: CTO
The Empire is a product and digital-operations partner: it defines ideas before building them, then ships custom platforms, MVPs and AI agents. As CTO I lead the engineering behind its products and client platforms.
- offerings: Solvo, Blueprint, MVP, Platforms
- 4
- products & platforms shipped
- 15+
- Terraform
- AWS
- Next.js
- Node.js
- GitHub Actions
LiveAI · Conversational commercepowered by The Empire
powered by The EmpireSolvo
Role: Architecture & lead engineering
An AI sales agent for WhatsApp that knows each business's catalogue, stock, prices, calendar and orders. It qualifies, quotes, books and hands off to a person whenever money or judgement is involved.
- agent tools
- 15
- audited order states
- 13
- test files
- ~306
- Node 22
- PostgreSQL + pgvector
- OpenAI tools
- Twilio
- AWS Lambda
- Terraform
LiveSocial impactpowered by The Empire
Desaparecidos Terremoto Venezuela
Role: CTO · architecture & operations
A public platform to reconnect families after the La Guaira earthquakes of June 2026: report someone you can't reach, mark them as found, search by photo and follow live metrics — run by volunteers, funded through Latin Freedom.
- active users in week one
- ~52k
- records managed
- 44k+
- volunteers & moderators
- 150+
- Next.js
- Node 22
- AWS Lambda
- MySQL
- SQS
- WAF
LiveFintechpowered by The Empire
Finami
Role: Lead engineer
Two products under one brand: Finami App, a personal-finance app whose data is encrypted on the phone, and Finami Business, a multi-tenant financial ERP for invoicing, cash, accounting, inventory and credit.
- mobile tests, 0 failing
- 1,647
- encrypted sync
- E2E
- schema per tenant
- 1:1
- Expo
- React Native
- SQLCipher
- Express
- PostgreSQL
- Next.js
LiveNonprofit
Latin Freedom
Role: End-to-end engineering
Latin Freedom trains, connects and funds citizens leading community initiatives across Latin America. I built its digital platform: the public site, donations, volunteering, the staff back office and the Tándem Ayuda landing.
- apps on one API
- 4
- campaigns
- 12
- automated tests
- ~210
- Next.js
- Node 22
- Stripe
- AWS Lambda
- MySQL
- Terraform
LiveMedia · Gaming
La Patilla Games
Role: Co-technical lead
The video-game vertical of the Venezuelan news site La Patilla: a public catalogue, in-house games with Venezuelan identity, game jams with voting and ad revenue shared with developers — white-label ready for other media.
- in-house games
- 12
- serverless functions
- 13
- per game
- < 3 MB
- React
- Phaser
- FastAPI
- MongoDB
- AWS Lambda
- Kotlin Multiplatform
Also built
Municipal fee collection with a taxpayer mobile app — audited, moved to the cloud and handed over.
LaravelReactMobileB2B jewelry commerce on WooCommerce with a custom commerce plugin.
WooCommercePHPB2B- MiUniforme · Avianca
Keeps Avianca's employee data in sync across corporate systems.
EnterpriseIntegrations - Academy Studio
21 training videos rendered with three.js + GSAP — deterministic and voiced.
three.jsGSAPVideo
A stack chosen for production.
Battle-tested tools picked for reliability and scale — not novelty.
Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python
- Kotlin
- Java
- C#
- PHP
Frontend, mobile & motion
- React
- Next.js
- React Native
- Expo
- Angular
- Tailwind
- three.js
- GSAP
Backend & APIs
- Node.js
- Express
- NestJS
- FastAPI
- REST
- gRPC
- Microservices
Data
- PostgreSQL
- pgvector
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- SQLite · SQLCipher
- MSSQL
Cloud
- AWS Lambda
- API Gateway
- CloudFront
- RDS
- Amplify
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- DigitalOcean
DevOps & IaC
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
- SonarQube
AI & automation
- LLM tool calling
- RAG
- MCP
- AI agents
- Guardrails
- n8n
Product-minded engineering, not just code.
A clear path from problem to a running product you can defend.
- 01
Discover
Understand the goal, the constraints and what success really means.
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Architect
Design a system that fits the problem and is built to grow.
- 03
Build
Ship clean, tested, production-grade code in tight iterations.
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Automate
Remove manual work with reliable pipelines and integrations.
- 05
Launch
Deploy with CI/CD, monitoring and confidence — no drama.
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Iterate
Measure, refine and keep the system working as you scale.
Contact
Have an idea, product or process to decode?
Tell me what you're building. I'll tell you the fastest, most reliable way to ship it — and how I'd help. I read and reply to every message.