Ignacio Miguez

Automated a zero-downtime CI/CD workflow using GitHub Actions and Docker to deploy to AWS Fargate, managing the full lifecycle from image build to automated ECS task updates. Configured secure, least-privilege IAM roles and policies to authorize cross-service interactions between ECR, ECS, and GitHub Actions.

Automated a zero-downtime CI/CD workflow using GitHub Actions and Docker to deploy to AWS Fargate, managing the full lifecycle from image build to automated ECS task updates. Configured secure, least-privilege IAM roles and policies to authorize cross-service interactions between ECR, ECS, and GitHub Actions.

Built a credit MVP for gig workers featuring robust billing cycles, repayments, and ACID transactions, granting credit lines to 200+ users and processing thousands of transactions in the alpha phase. Engineered secure money movement flows and validation layers to proactively mitigate fraud risk and ensure financial data integrity via webhook-driven state management and government API integrations. Developed a backend proxy layer over an OpenAI agent, handling message processing, business rules, and persistence, while enabling real-time streaming via SSE, reducing perceived latency by ~60%. Researched and prototyped a real-time AI avatar by integrating open-source speech and animation tools, optimizing heavy speech and lip-sync models to overcome hardware constraints and deliver a fluid, low-latency conversational interaction.