Gil Medrano | AI Design Engineer

Portfolio, Ventures & What I Build

Product/systems design that turns AI tech into business results

I'm Gil. I work at the intersection of product/systems design and applied AI engineering. I help teams turn complex workflows into useful products and multi-agent systems.

Selected Work

AI-native systems, enterprise platforms, and developer tools.

Energy Monitoring Kiosk

A lobby-scale energy dashboard that helped commercial clients visualize solar production, system performance, and environmental impact.

Energy & Climate

NextGen Biosurveillance

Monitoring nationwide health signals to detect, filter, and investigate emerging disease patterns.

Health

In-App Conversational Interface

A visitor-facing messaging widget that connected live support, announcements, product help, and feedback collection.

Marketing

EDDiE - Solar Design Tool

A homeowner-facing solar app that helped customers learn, design, compare savings, sign, track installation, and monitor performance.

Energy & Climate

SOL - Homeowners AI Chatbot

An early chatbot experience that helped homeowners learn about solar, ask questions, and move toward savings estimates.

Energy & Climate

Workflow Builder

A visual workflow builder that helped DevOps teams compose, inspect, and trust complex automation sequences.

Infra & DevOps

Consumer-Direct - Life Insurance

A direct-to-consumer life insurance experience that helped customers quote, qualify, sign, and submit online.

FinTech

Praedico

Tracking completed lab tests from invoice readiness to payment reconciliation.

Health

Personal Ventures

Craftal

An AI-native workspace for generating, inspecting, and validating complex product workflows.

Infra & DevOps

Contextus

A context-native workspace that turns scattered AI interactions into persistent, inspectable knowledge systems.

Health

Finetunio - Model Optimization

An intent-first workbench for planning, executing, evaluating, and deploying model improvements.

Infra & DevOps

What I Build

AI-Native Product Systems

From AI capabilities to usable products

I design and prototype AI-native systems for complex workflows: RAG pipelines, agentic interfaces, human-in-the-loop workflows, structured outputs, and context-aware product experiences.

I work where the interface, the workflow, and the AI logic have to fit together.

Product Design & Engineering

Where design meets implementation

I design for expert users, developer-adjacent tools, internal platforms, dashboards, workflow builders, and API-connected systems.

I bring implementation fluency (prototyping in React, Vue, Python/FastAPI) so design decisions are grounded in technical reality, not just visual preference.

Enterprise AI Transformation

From messy workflows to AI-ready systems

I help organizations turn complex operations, business logic, and AI capabilities into coherent systems.

My Product Systems Transformation Process starts with how work actually happens and builds from real workflow modeling to measured, governed automation.

Who I Work With

Developer Experience

AI Companies & Developer Platforms

Teams building developer tools, AI infrastructure, and technical products where the UX/DX problem is as hard as the engineering problem and needs the same rigor.

Product-Market Fit

Startups & Founders

Early-stage teams that need to move from vague AI capability to a working product, demo, or implementation-ready system, without agency bloat or fuzzy specs.

Digital Transformation

Enterprise Organizations

Companies with complex workflows that need a practical, measured path to AI adoption, not a generic transformation pitch.

Testimonials

Gilberto is one of the best UI/UX professionals I have encountered, and I do not say that lightly. He built our digital design practice from nothing and in the process helped to win both internal and user trust. Our product managers enjoy working with him across all types of projects, from sales software to operational interfaces.

There is not a part of our platform that has not benefited from his work. I recommend working with him and looking forward to doing so again.

Jake Wachman • Vice-President, Digital • SunPower Inc.

Gilberto is the best product designer I've worked with throughout my many years developing software. His experience spans beyond just UI/UX and additionally goes into frontend development, allowing him to effectively communicate with and work alongside deeply technical engineers.

When it comes to product design concepts, he has an incredibly deep understanding of how to structure various distinct modes of user interactions and semantically different activities.

Larry Diehl • CEO and Founder • Colimit

I'm Gil, an AI Product Design Engineer. I take complex workflows and turn them into AI-native systems, from discovery through shipped product.

My north star is the complete practitioner: the idea that the best AI-native products are shaped by one mind that can hold design, engineering, and AI logic simultaneously, not handed off through layers of interpretation.

When the same person who defines the workflow also builds the prototype and wires the AI, translation loss disappears. Teams move faster and the gap between what we designed and what shipped closes.

What I Bring

Enterprise Systems

Enterprise End-to-End Systems Builder

I've designed complex product ecosystems at enterprise scale — multi-product platforms, multi-role workflows, and long-running transformation initiatives as a solo designer. Systems thinking, not just screen design.

AI Product Engineering

AI-Native Product Design Engineer

I design and prototype AI-native product systems — RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop interfaces, structured outputs, and context-aware products. AI product work grounded in real systems, not demos.

Education & Evangelism

Technical Educator & Evangelist

I help people understand, adopt, and build with new technologies — through demos, workshops, tutorials, and product systems thinking. Teaching as adoption; adoption as product design.

A consistent practice across technology cycles

Tech Speaker Microsoft · 5,000+ developers

Co-founder 8th Light · Digital transformation

Startups + Enterprise Engine Yard · ThoughtWorks · Dev tools

Founder Skowak · Design engineering · Teaching

Enterprise Focus SunPower · Digital transformation · Ecosystems

AI Eng Focus Craftal · CareDash · Multi Agent Systems

Now Contextus · Craftal v.2 · AI-native systems

How I Work

I don’t start with AI. I start with how work actually happens.

The method works in cycles. Each one scoped small enough to prove value fast, wide enough to compound across the whole system.

Each cycle makes the next one faster, safer, and more valuable. Real workflows before AI use cases. No baseline, no proof. No proof, no scale.

01 — 03

Understand

Discover
Model
Baseline

Know before you build

04 — 06

Intervene

Design
Adapt & Script
Measure

Build small, prove value

07 — 08

Promote

Promote
Orchestrate

Make it durable and connected

09 — 10

Scale

Govern
Reuse & Expand

Govern and compound

Where most AI projects break down

Most AI failures aren't technical. They're structural: siloed teams, AI built without real workflows, ideas that can't survive contact with production. The method closes those gaps.

Design, engineering, and AI in separate rooms

Work lands in three different hands. Every handoff is a translation, and translation is where ideas lose fidelity.

One practitioner across all three layers

I lead design, write code, and wire the AI as one strategic partner across all three disciplines. No handoffs, no interpretation layers, no gap between what was designed and what shipped.

AI built without a workflow to plug into

Teams rush to launch LLM features with minimal ROI. Without mapping real workflows or solving real problems, the result is unused chatbots and shallow automation.

Bridge between LLMs and real work

I map how work actually happens first, then wire the AI stack into those real decisions. The result is automation that runs, not a chatbot no one uses.

Technical Toolkit

The full stack, from workflow model to deployed AI system.

My stack spans the full system: AI engineering (OpenAI & Anthropic APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, DSPy, RAG pipelines, vector stores, structured outputs, agent orchestration), frontend and prototyping (React, Angular, Vue, TypeScript, API-connected interfaces), backend and tooling (Python, FastAPI, Rails, PostgreSQL/pgvector, Docker), and product and design (systems modeling, workflow mapping, information architecture, interaction design, design engineering).

As a product generalist, I choose the right tool for each layer (design, front end, data, or model) so ideas travel from workflow model to shipped system without unnecessary handoffs.

Getting personal

Things I do when I'm not building

Still-life sketching, coastal hiking, PC teardowns, and slow travel through cities with good architecture.

I draw to stay sharp. I travel to stay curious. I take things apart to stay honest about how they work.

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Project Spotlights

Selected Work

AI-native systems, enterprise platforms, and developer tools.

Energy Monitoring Kiosk

NextGen Biosurveillance

In-App Conversational Interface

EDDiE - Solar Design Tool

SOL - Homeowners AI Chatbot

Workflow Builder

Consumer-Direct - Life Insurance

Praedico

Personal Ventures

Personal Ventures

Craftal

Contextus

Finetunio - Model Optimization

What I Build

From AI capabilities to usable products

Where design meets implementation

From messy workflows to AI-ready systems

Who I Work With

AI Companies & Developer Platforms

Startups & Founders

Enterprise Organizations

Testimonials

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