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Data Intelligence & Cybersecurity student · Co-Founder & CTOMexico City / UTC−6

Built by Luis Cedillo

Luis Cedillo: Ideas into systems.

I build AI systems that do real work, as Co-Founder & CTO at Dopamina and iLuk.

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Currently / Mexico City Currently building Dopamina
01 / AI systems / Backend / Product engineeringThe story below

The way I build / 001 / 003

Not just the code.The whole picture.

[01]UPocket

Start with people.

A useful product begins with the everyday. In UPocket, that meant bringing a student’s academic life into one clear iOS experience.

UPocket
[02]Flowlink / StackUp

Connect the pieces.

Simple on the outside takes careful work underneath. At Nyx, I built the backend for Flowlink / StackUp, connecting hotels with their booking channels.

Flowlink / StackUp
[03]Dopamina

Make it act.

At Dopamina, I build AI systems that turn a message into useful marketing work, with people setting the direction and keeping the final word.

Dopamina
From a first tap to a financial workflow.Explore my work

01 / Selected work

Selected systems.

Different industries. One through line: make complex systems useful to the people who depend on them.

All projects
[00] / DopaminaNow / AI-powered marketing
Message-to-marketing flow · Dopamina
Dopamina
  1. WhatsApp
  2. Doppies
  3. Content Studio
  4. Publishing
  5. Community
  6. Ads
AI agents + your direction

Co-Founder & CTO · 2026–present

A message in, a campaign out.

At Dopamina, I lead the engineering behind an AI-powered marketing workspace. Ergo routes WhatsApp requests across Content Studio, Publishing, Community and Ads, keeping human direction at the center.

Content StudioPublishingCommunityPaid Ads

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[01] / iLukSince 2026 / Fintech AI
Workflow overview · iLuk
iLuk
  1. Acquisition
  2. Onboarding
  3. KYC
  4. Payments
  5. Collections
AI orchestration + human oversight

Co-Founder & CTO · 2026–present

From conversation to action.

At iLuk, I lead the architecture of a multi-agent platform for traditional finance. AI employees carry work across acquisition, onboarding, KYC, payments and collections, with humans in the loop.

100K+
WhatsApp messages processed
200+
AI employees deployed
Platform figures reported on my LinkedIn profile ↗Meet iLuk
[01] / FlowlinkWeb / 2024–2025
StackUp hotel selection interface

Backend developer · Nyx Technology

Flowlink / StackUp

Nyx Technology's channel manager lets hotel operators manage rooms, prices and availability across Booking, Expedia and their own site from one screen.

SvelteJavaScriptFastAPIPostgreSQLDockerAWS

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[02] / UPocketiOS / Ongoing
UPocket student dashboard with academic overview

Full-stack developer

UPocket

University students see their schedule, attendance, grades and academic links in one place instead of piecing them together from separate systems.

FastAPIPythonPostgreSQLSwiftUIKubernetesDockerAWSOllama

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[03] / DermawareiOS / Jul–Nov 2023
Genesis skin-health dashboard

Development lead • Full-stack developer

Dermaware / Genesis

People can record skin changes, receive tailored guidance and speak with a dermatologist through one mobile app.

SwiftUIFlaskPythonSQLiteAWS

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02 / Awards & recognition

Awards & recognition.

Hackathon wins, published research and credentials, with the work behind them.

Hackathons

  • Luis holding the 2026 first-place Bimbo challenge award at Universidad Panamericana
    First place · Swift Change Makers 2026 · Photo from LinkedIn

    1st place nationally

    BimboNecta

    Swift Change Makers · Enactus México · May 2026

    An iOS copilot for Grupo Bimbo's route salespeople, built with the iOS Development Lab UPMX. Shelf photos become practical sales guidance through on-device AI.

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    • Apple Vision and Foundation Models analyze shelf gaps, near-expiry stock and layout issues, with confidence scores for each suggestion.
    • AI-assisted orders remain editable before syncing. Mexican Spanish voice input and local visit history keep the workflow useful while prioritizing privacy.
    • Team: Luis Cedillo Maldonado, Rafael Nuñez Arellano and Daniel Emiliano Peláez Romero.
    BimboNecta shelf analysis screen with product markers and a gap alert
    Shelf analysis · LinkedIn
    BimboNecta dashboard with delivery, route history and current store visit
    Route dashboard · LinkedIn
  • Luis with the Best Prototype award beside the Swift Change Makers 2025 event display
    Best Prototype · Swift Change Makers 2025 · Photo from LinkedIn

    Best Prototype

    Swift Change Makers

    Enactus México · Grupo Bimbo challenge · May 2025

    A SwiftUI app that encourages environmental awareness and sustainable habits through gamification, developed with the iOS Development Lab UPMX.

Published research

  • Cover of Machine Learning Methods in Biomedical Field, the Springer book containing the DermAware chapter
    Book cover · Springer

    First-listed author · Book chapter

    Development of a Mobile Application for Dermatological Diagnosis Using Image Recognition: The DermAware Case Study

    Springer · Online October 11, 2025 · Citation year 2026

    A mobile skin-health research project combining SwiftUI, Django and image recognition. Published in Machine Learning Methods in Biomedical Field, Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 1218, pp. 25–47.

    Explore the details
    • The study combines CoreML/ResNet50, HealthKit, real-time messaging, patient history and secure authentication. LinkedIn lists the research project from September 2023 to October 2025.
    • The publisher's abstract reports 85% model accuracy on public dermatological datasets. This is a research result, not clinical diagnostic validation.
    • Authors, in publication order: Luis Cedillo-Maldonado, Iñaki Sigüenza-Noriega, Sara Rocio Miranda-Mateos, Lorenzo Reinoso-Fuentes, Mauricio Pérez-Aguirre, Daisy Escobar-Castillejos and David Escobar-Castillejos.
    • DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96328-5_2.

Credentials

  • Apple App Development with Swift Associate badge
    Official badge · Credly

    Apple

    App Development with Swift - Associate

    June 2023

    Apple's associate-level app development credential, with a publicly verifiable badge on Credly.

  • AWS Academy Cloud Foundations training badge
    Official training badge · Credly

    AWS Academy

    AWS Academy Graduate - Cloud Foundations

    October 2023

    Cloud Foundations course-completion badge from AWS Training and Certification. This is an AWS Academy training credential, not the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam certification.

03 / Experience

Built along the way.

A fast scan of the systems, teams and outcomes that shaped how I build today.

roles across product, systems & leadership
2021–Present

  1. Jul 2026Present

    Active now

    Dopamina

    Co-Founder & CTO

    Leading engineering for an AI-powered marketing workspace: on-brand image generation, social publishing, an AI community manager and paid ads in one product.

    • Agentic AI
    • Product
    • Architecture
    Open field notes
    • Building Ergo, a WhatsApp-first AI agent that routes requests across Content Studio, Publishing, the shared inbox and Ads.

  2. May 2026Present

    Active now

    iLuk.ai

    Co-Founder & CTO

    Leading the architecture of a multi-agent platform for acquisition, onboarding, KYC, payments and collections.

    • Agentic AI
    • Architecture
    • Leadership
    Open field notes
    • Building orchestration systems where AI and humans collaborate in regulated financial workflows.
    • Company milestones reported on LinkedIn: official Meta Tech Partner and ElevenLabs grant recipient.

  3. Dec 2025May 2026

    iLuk.ai

    Co-Founder & Head of AI Engineering

    Led engineering for enterprise generative AI and agentic systems, shaping the technical vision and architecture.

    • AI
    • Product
    • Engineering

  4. Jun 2025Dec 2025

    Vyvo Tech

    Co-Founder & CTO · Acquired

    Guided the technology vision, product direction and engineering roadmap of an AI-powered social network.

    • Product
    • Architecture
    • Leadership
    Open field notes
    • Built and mentored the engineering team, connecting architecture decisions with product releases.

  5. May 2024Aug 2025

    Universidad Panamericana

    President – Engineering & Data Intelligence and Cybersecurity Student Councils

    Led the organization of 5+ academic and social events.

    • Leadership
    • Community
    • Mentorship
    Open field notes
    • Established mentorships for 30+ students.
    • Represented students and connected academic and technical initiatives with faculty and industry.

  6. Aug 2024May 2025

    Nyx Technology

    Tech Lead

    Led Flowlink for Marriott and City Express, removing most of the manual re-entry between channels.

    • Backend
    • Architecture
    • AWS
    • Leadership
    Open field notes
    • Built a backend with FastAPI, RDS, Lambda and Svelte.
    • Reported 99% system uptime on LinkedIn.

  7. Jan 2023Present

    Active now

    Universidad Panamericana

    Technical Lead – iOS Development Lab

    Developed 4 iOS apps for students and staff.

    • iOS
    • Swift
    • Agile
    Open field notes
    • Led Agile sprints, shortening delivery by 3 weeks.

  8. Dec 2022Apr 2023

    Independent

    Freelance Developer

    Automated Airbnb reservations through a Twilio WhatsApp bot with message tracking.

    • Chatbot
    • Twilio
    • Automation
    Open field notes
    • Reported on LinkedIn: reply time reduced from 5 minutes to 30 seconds, with a 25% improvement in efficiency.

  9. Jan 2021Mar 2022

    Zenco

    Junior Backend Developer

    Created CRM systems with Python, Flask, MySQL and AWS.

    • Python
    • Flask
    • MySQL
    • AWS
    Open field notes
    • Built automated data synchronization, reducing manual entry by 75%.

04 / Behind the work

An engineer. A builder. A person.

I build AI systems that do real work, as Co-Founder & CTO at Dopamina and iLuk.

At Dopamina, I turn a message into coordinated marketing work across content, publishing, community and ads. At iLuk, I build the orchestration layer for AI employees handling acquisition, onboarding, KYC, payments and collections. Both systems share the same standard: human direction, clear handoffs and infrastructure that keeps working.

Awards, research & credentials

What I work with

From product intent to systems in production.

The through line

Anyone can write code. The real craft is turning an ambitious idea into a system that keeps working after everyone stops watching it.

Education

  • B.Sc. Data Intelligence & Cybersecurity · In progressUniversidad Panamericana · 2022–2027

Languages

  • SpanishNative
  • EnglishFluent
  • FrenchIntermediate

Mentoring & research

  • Mentor at university hackathons, supporting Python/backend development and technical project design.
  • Research activities include graph-based optimization of school processes and collaboration on gamification and learning theses.
Academic activities on LinkedIn

05 / Field notes

Notes from the work.

All notes

06 / What’s next?

Let’s make something real.

Building something, untangling a system, or just want to exchange ideas? Tell me what you have in mind.

me@luiscedillo.com