Alan Arguello

Alan Arguello

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  • Emma Group
    Co-Founder & CTO (Torrenegra Consulting)
    Emma Group
    Apr 2026 - Current (7 months)
    We work with SMBs, enterprises, and governments to identify where AI can create measurable impact, redesign workflows, and support implementation.

    Our team has worked across healthcare, government, energy, insurance, logistics, and software.
  • Emma Group
    Forward Deployed Engineer
    Emma Group
    Mar 2026 - Current (8 months)
  • Emma Group
    Entrepreneur in Residence
    Emma Group
    Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 10 months)
  • Emma Group
    Entrepreneur in Residence
    Emma Group
    Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 (4 months)
    Emma Group is a family office focused on venture building. I was responsible for researching, independently conducting market research, and executing feasibility assessments for different business ideas through 0-to-1 sprints. Examples include:

    1. The human data market for multimodal models and robotics labs (VLA), by building relationships with researchers at AI labs such as xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, AI Fund, Samsung, and Adobe.

    2. Bunny Social, a platform that connects brands with nano-creators.

    3. AI consulting services through an "FDE-as-a-Service" model, helping companies with at least $2M USD in annual revenue implement AI workflows.
  • Emma Group
    Co-Founder & COO/CRO
    Emma Group
    Jan 2024 - May 2025 (1 year 5 months)
    Co-founded, bootstrapped and solo-operated this program to support bootstrapped founders to $300K ARR

    1. Owned organic marketing, sales, partnerships, and operations for the accelerator
    2. Organic content marketing reached 4M+ total impressions on LinkedIn
    3. Reviewed and evaluated 1,400+ applications from founders across Latin America
    4. Supported 101 Latin American startups over 18 months
    5. Organized events for 30 to 200 people across Mexico, and Colombia
  • Makers Fellowship
    Founding Team - Lead
    Makers Fellowship
    Feb 2023 - Dec 2023 (11 months)
    Helped incubate the next generation of under-25 startup leaders across Latin America through a selective educational program and community.



    1. Led special projects, including grant fundraising, expansion into Africa, and strategic networking.

    2. Led the content marketing strategy using Andrés Bilbao’s and the company’s LinkedIn, achieving 2M+ organic impressions in 6 months. This helped expand to Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil.

    3. Collaborated in reviewing 770+ applications; selected and supported 300+ fellows, including founders who collectively raised $40M+ and talent we placed to high-growth YC startups.

    4. Led program operations, bringing in speakers f
  • Trendi
    Co-Founder (backed by Platanus Ventures)
    Trendi
    Dec 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 3 months)
    TLDR - I made plenty of mistakes.

    1. Got investment and was accelerated by Platanus Ventures (
  • Beekio
    Software Engineer
    Beekio
    Mar 2021 - Nov 2021 (9 months)
    Backed by Y Combinator, Lightspeed, Greylock, and Accel.

    I had the privilege of learning from exceptional people across Engineering and Product.

    Given the small size of the engineering team, we operated as full-stack engineers, building features across mobile (React Native, Kotlin, and Swift) and web (React and Next.js).

    I also helped sustain development after 60% of the team (4 senior engineers) left at the same time. That left just 3 engineers supporting the product while the company was on track to raise its Series A.

    Special thanks to Pamela, Guillermo, Alejandro, and the entire Product and Engineering team.
  • National Western Life Insurance Company NWL
    Software Engineer
    National Western Life Insurance Company NWL
    Sep 2020 - Mar 2021 (7 months)
    Kept learning by myself, and then I got the opportunity to join another National Western Life Insurance (NASDAQ: NWLI) project, where we rebuilt from scratch an API for one of their workflows with their agents.

    Technologies: .NET Core and Azure.

    Big thanks to Hugo Mancinas and Mauricio Torres for trusting me.
  • National Western Life Insurance Company NWL
    Software Development Engineer in Test
    National Western Life Insurance Company NWL
    Mar 2020 - Sep 2020 (7 months)
    Joined to National Western Life Insurance (NASDAQ: NWLI) project where I was in charge of doing scripts for testing one of their products in their portal.

    Technologies: Javascript, Mocha, Cucumber and WebdriverIO.
  • Enroute
    Graduate Engineering Trainee
    Enroute
    Jan 2020 - Mar 2021 (1 year 3 months)
    With all seriousness, life-changing for me.

    I had no idea about Software Engineering, our work consisted of completing and passing MIT's Course: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python being assessed by real Software Engineers.

    I learned the foundations of Software Engineering, which made a complete difference in my professional career.
  • Citi
    Production Support Engineer
    Citi
    Jan 2019 - Jun 2019 (6 months)
    I had to learn SQL, Linux, and Shell scripting as part of my job. Besides that, I supposedly joined to CITI North America project providing support, but to be honest I wasn't doing anything.
  • Instituto Tecnologico de Morelia
    Student Researcher
    Instituto Tecnologico de Morelia
    Aug 2017 - Dec 2017 (5 months)
    Research on the benefits of switching from analog to digital meters for households in Mexico using an ATMega microcontroller.

    Assisted by Prof. Jose Luis Monroy: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37085473979
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  • Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
    Master of Business Administration - MBA
    Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
  • Latitud
    LF5 Fellow
    Latitud
    Latitud is building Latin America’s first remote tech entrepreneurship education platform.
  • Platanus
    Founder (PV 22-1
    Platanus
    Investment & acceleration program.
  • Tecnológico Nacional de México TecNM
    Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
    Tecnológico Nacional de México TecNM
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
    Master's Degree, Computer Science
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Jan 2026 - Aug 2026 (8 months)
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    Camaral | AI Avatars for live events and customer support
    Oct 2025 - Dec 2025 (3 months)
    Co-developed an AI avatar that interacted in real-time using Anam, Deepgram, LiveKit, ElevenLabs and Recall. We got it to $1K MRR and $3K one-off in 8 weeks and sold it to 15 B2B companies
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    Member & Build Weekend Winner
    Sep 2021 - Nov 2021 (3 months)
    ODF (https://www.joinodf.com/) On Deck Catalyst Cohort 2. Met a lot of very, very cool young people and mentors.

    We participated in On Deck's Build Weekend, where out of a pool of 15+ projects we ended up winning. I was in charge of designing and building the prototype.

    I also applied to ODX (On Deck's Accelerator) Inaugural Cohort, where I reached the final interview.

    Thanks to Shriya, Katarina, and Karel.
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    Estudiante
    Issued by Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia
    Primera Sesión de Ponencias de artículos de investigación de Ing Eléctrica, ITM. Ponencia: "Medidor de Energía Inteligente basado en un microcontrolador ATMEGA"