# Martín Hounie

> Product & AI Engineering Consultant and Senior Software Engineer based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Works in Spanish and English, remote, with LATAM and international clients.

## Current Positioning

- Product & AI Engineering Consultant (primary consulting role)
- Senior Software Engineer (professional credibility)
- Product Builder (broader identity)

## Location

Montevideo, Uruguay — Remote · LATAM · International · Spanish and English

## Professional Summary

Software engineer and product & AI engineering consultant working at the intersection of product, software and applied AI. Focus: understanding ambiguous problems, defining what to build, and designing systems where people, software and AI agents execute reliably. 4+ years of professional software experience, including US enterprise product work, plus cofounder and CTO experience. Professional software experience began in 2022.

## Experience

### WyeWorks — Senior Software Engineer (2023 — Present)
Product engineering inside US engineering teams and enterprise environments, on large, evolving products. Frontend/product engineering, React, TypeScript, testing, maintainability, cross-functional collaboration and delivery. The challenge is rarely writing code: it's understanding an existing product and improving it without breaking it.

### Remolk — CTO (2023 — Present)
Technology-enabled trailer rental business. Product, reservations, payments (Mercado Pago), GPS/IoT, operations and business rules. Software decisions interact with hardware, customers and real operations.

### Kinamic Technologies — Software Engineer (2022 — 2023)
Web and mobile development with a US team. React and React Native for digital products.

### SafeDrive — Cofounder (2020 — 2025)
Road-safety technology startup: driver fatigue, distractions and behavior. Mobile product, startup validation and ties to the Uruguayan innovation ecosystem. Project paused. Support/funding: Incubaelectro — UYU 150,000; ANDE VIN — UYU 222,000. Ecosystem relationships: ANDE, Incubaelectro, Antel, LATU, MIEM, INITIUM, Universidad de Montevideo, UNASEV.

## Projects

- Enterprise Software Engineering (WyeWorks) — software engineering in US/enterprise environments.
- Remolk — technology-enabled trailer rental (product, payments, GPS/IoT, operations).
- SafeDrive — road-safety startup (cofounder, paused).
- AI-assisted Engineering Workflows — personal experiments, documented in the AI Lab.

## Applied AI

Applied, practical AI — not model research. Where AI creates real leverage, agent-assisted workflow design, and automation with a human in the loop. Areas: AI for engineering, AI for operations & knowledge, AI-native product building.

## Agentic Engineering

Coding agents, repository context and instructions, skills, MCP, agent workflows, review gates, feedback loops and engineering harness design — with controlled, reviewed execution. No claims of full autonomy.

## Technical Skills

- Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Python
- Frontend / Product: React, React Native, AngularJS, product UX, testing, maintainability
- Backend / Data: Ruby on Rails, APIs, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
- Platform: AWS, integrations, development workflows

## Education

Universidad de Montevideo — Computer Engineering (Ingeniería en Informática) with a diploma in Business Management.

## Languages

Spanish (native), English (professional).

## Company

Mahomarino Technologies SAS — company-level engagements are executed through Mahomarino.

## Confidentiality

Some clients (including healthcare and security companies in the US) are kept confidential under NDAs and are not named.

## Canonical Links

- Website: https://martinhounie.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-hounie/
- Remolk: https://remolk.uy
- Company: https://mahomarino.com
- Email: hola@martinhounie.com