Andre
A platform of AI agents that answer, qualify, book and sell over WhatsApp, with a built-in CRM, in production with real customers.
Juan Andrés
Girón
I make software that has to work first thing on Monday. I built the self-service system behind the Electoral Tribunal kiosks, where Panamanians identify themselves with their fingerprint and get a duplicate ID card or a certificate without queuing, and the queueing system behind the 2021 vaccination rollout. Now I am working on two products: Andre, an agent that answers a business’s WhatsApp, books appointments and hands the sales team leads that are already qualified, and El Empleado Juan, which tracks attendance with face recognition and gets payroll ready.
Now: Andre and El Empleado Juan.
Now
El Empleado Juan
A B2B SaaS for biometric attendance and automated payroll for Latin American SMEs, with in-house facial recognition on low-cost hardware.
Projects
Everything before, from the latest to the first.- ongoing RAG agents in production An agent is only useful when it queries real systems without inventing the answers.
- 2022–2026 Fluyapp Four years of continuous operation is the one proof a SaaS cannot fake.
- 2021 National vaccination, Panama In a vaccination campaign the queue is not an inconvenience, it is part of the clinical protocol.
- 2018–2022 Electoral Tribunal of Panama A nation's identity fits inside a kiosk, if the system is not allowed to fail.
- 2010–2017 One Second Solver / Algebry Inc. A rules engine can solve symbolic mathematics step by step, the way a teacher would.
What I do
And where I did it.Symbolic mathematics from scratch
Parsing, expression trees, an inference engine and knowledge representation, with no library solving it underneath. A system that does not compute the answer: it reproduces the reasoning and explains it step by step.
One Second SolverComputer vision in production
An end-to-end pipeline of my own: detection with MTCNN and RetinaFace, embeddings with FaceNet and ArcFace, anti-spoofing, transfer learning and edge deployment. On cheap hardware and integrated with third-party terminals — which is where most vision projects fall over.
El Empleado JuanMission-critical identity
Systems where being wrong about who someone is not an option: legally valid documents, payment taken on the unit itself, continuous operation and every transaction auditable. No "we will fix it next sprint".
Electoral TribunalOperations in the physical world
Software governing people moving through a building in real time, across several sites at once, with a protocol to meet and no rehearsal. When somebody is waiting in front of it, availability is not a metric: it is the product.
National vaccinationDistributed architecture at scale
Microservice ecosystems with streaming and real-time processing: Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Spark and Flink on Kubernetes over AWS. Multi-tenant by design, which is the one thing you cannot retrofit later.
FluyappLLMs from the inside, not the API
A Llama-style decoder-only model written from scratch: tokenisation, attention, training. It is what lets you know why the model does what it does, and above all what its architecture cannot give you no matter the prompt.
WritingRAG agents with real customers
Retrieval, embeddings, tool use and integration with real systems, evaluated against questions with known answers. Agents that query live data and have an explicit path to saying "I do not know" instead of making it up.
RAG agentsAgents that operate, not just talk
Agents that qualify, book and move the pipeline on real systems, with the AI proposing and the system validating: typed schema, the user’s own permissions and constraints in the database. Stateful flows on LangGraph, multi-tenant with Row-Level Security and the official WhatsApp API.
AndreComplete product, end to end
From a WhatsApp bot to a multi-tenant platform with three capture layers, statutory payroll with auditable premiums, feature flags, licensing and CI/CD. A product with paying customers, not a prototype.
El Empleado JuanExperience
- Now Andre in production: AI agents that serve and sell over WhatsApp.
- Now El Empleado Juan: co-founder.
- 2022–2026 Fluyapp: co-founder and CEO.
- 2021 Platform for the AstraZeneca vaccination rollout in Panama.
- 2018–2022 CTO of XPLOR, vendor of the Electoral Tribunal multiservice kiosks: 100 units delivered.
- 2017 EO Global Student Entrepreneur Award Panama. Representing Panama in Frankfurt.
- 2016–2017 National press coverage: La Prensa, La Estrella de Panamá.
- 2016 One Second Solver on the App Store and Google Play.
- 2012 Winner of a national innovation contest.
- 2010 Technological University of Panama. One Second Solver begins: a symbolic language app that worked like a teacher.
About
I am Colombian and live in Panama. I started at university with a symbolic language app that worked like a teacher, was CTO at XPLOR, co-founded Fluyapp and El Empleado Juan, and now I am working on Andre.
As a kid I took everything apart to see how it worked. Still do, except now it is AI models.
Education
MSc in Computational and Mathematical Engineering
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. Before that, Computer Systems Engineering at the Technological University of Panama.
Education
Applied statistics
I help physicians in Panama with the statistics in their theses: the analysis design, the models and the figures they have to defend.
Writing
I write when something took me a while to understand.- Jul 2026 Shipping facial recognition on $200 hardware draft 9 min
- Jun 2026 What an AI agent actually is (and what is hype) draft 7 min
- Jun 2026 I built an LLM from scratch: what nobody tells you about transformers draft 12 min
- May 2026 RAG in production: what breaks that tutorials never show draft 10 min
For government
Work in the public sector? I have a concrete proposal, with two government systems already running behind it.
Read the proposalWrite to me
If you are thinking about building something with AI and want to talk it through with someone who has put it into production, write to me. I answer myself.
hola@giron.aiUsually the same day.