About Rolando
Fractional CTO for companies that need senior technical leadership without a full-time hire. I also build ML pipelines, operations platforms, backend infrastructure for operationally complex industries. Zero-to-one is where I work best. Looking for founders and operators who know their domain and are committed to building something real.
Recent Impact:
- Production ML: End-to-end infrastructure for a fashion subscription company—ETL pipelines, feature store, model training, serverless inference. Zero to production in weeks, not months.
- TMF (Transportation Management Functions): The application layer that enables AI agents to perform real-world freight operations like rating, booking, and tracking.
- Childcare Platform: The complete tech stack for an emerging startup focused on children with special needs, from idea to production.
- Proprietary TMS: A Transportation Management System I designed and built, then ran for nearly a decade—$10M+ in shipment value, 10,000+ bookings.
Your project might be a good fit if:
- Your architecture was built for where you were, not where you are going
- Technical decisions are being made by default, not by design
- You are not sure your engineering team is building the right things, in the right order
- Investors or the board are asking technical questions nobody can answer confidently
- Your CTO left and you need strategic direction without a six-month search
- You feel pressure to move on AI but do not have a clear strategy yet
- You are about to raise and do not know what a technical due diligence review will find
Spanish
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Portuguese
Basic
Italian
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Collaboration Lab LLCFounderAugust 2025 - Today (10 months)Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, USACompanies reach a point where the technical decisions that got them here are no longer enough to get them where they are going. Collaboration Lab fills that gap.What we bring:
- Fractional CTO leadership: architecture, roadmap, and technical direction without the full-time hire
- Hands-on engineering alongside strategic oversight, not just advice from a distance
- Architecture reviews for teams with known problems and no clear path forward
- AI strategy and implementation for companies feeling the pressure to move before they have a clear direction
- AI-augmented planning and auditing built into every engagement: faster delivery, fewer things falling through the cracks
Where we have built:- Freight logistics and transportation infrastructure
- Subscription commerce and ML-powered recommendation systems
- Marketplace platforms for complex operational domains
- Franchise management and compliance systems
Who we work best with:- Founders who need senior technical judgment without a six-month search
- Companies whose architecture has outgrown their current stage
- Teams building in operationally complex industries where generic tech consultants fall short
- Falcon Freight LabsCo-founder/CTOLOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAINAugust 2025 - Today (10 months)Building infrastructure that lets AI agents execute real-world freight operations—rate, book, and track shipments through natural language.
- Unified interface over legacy carrier APIs (REST + SOAP)
- MCP server enabling Claude to execute live freight functions
- Reusable integration framework for fast carrier expansion
- E-Commerce Subscription Fashion ServiceFounding ML EngineerE-COMMERCEJune 2025 - December 2025 (6 months)Architected the end-to-end ML infrastructure for a fashion subscription service—from zero to production.
- Built the ML Feature Store and engineered the feature pipeline
- Trained and iterated XGBoost models for keep rate prediction
- Deployed serverless real-time inference API with caching layer
- Integrated LLMs for customer intelligence and styling context
- Orchestrated data pipelines and ETL jobs across AWS
Tech: AWS Glue, SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, XGBoost, Bedrock/Claude
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Education
- The AI Boot CampUNC-Chapel HillThe AI Boot Camp
- Bachelor of Arts (BA)Stanford University2009Bachelor of Arts (BA)