Alan Arguello

About

  • A straightforward showcase of my work, roles, and projects.
  • If you're just curious, you can read in depth about my experiences in my blog.
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Experiencev

Entrepreneur in Residence

Bunny Labs

Oct 2025 - Present

Executed market research to assess the feasibility of starting a company to gather Human Data for AI Labs. Went San Francisco to develop relations with Researchers.

Co-Founder & COO

Torrenegra Organization

January 2024 - May 2025

Co-founded and solo-operated this program to support bootstrapped founders with Shark Tank Investor, Alexander Torrenegra

  • Relaunched in 2024 as a fully bootstrapped company and hit breakeven in just 2 months
  • Owned organic + paid marketing, sales, partnerships, and operations for the accelerator
  • Built two business lines achieving $300K+ ARR with 70% net margin
  • Organic content marketing reached 4M+ total impressions
  • Reviewed and evaluated 1,400+ applications from founders across Latin America
  • Supported 101 Latin American startups over 18 months
  • Organized events for 30 to 200 people across Mexico, and Colombia
  • I managed Alexander Torrenegra (800k followers) social media presence to help businesses grow
  • Read the post-mortem about Torrenegra Organization's shutdown

Lead - Founding Team

Makers Fellowship

February 2023 - December 2023

Worked alongside one of Rappi's ($5.2b) co-founders Andres Bilbao to incubate the next generation of under-25 startup leaders.

  • Reviewed 750+ applications from founders and students across Latin America
  • Supported 300+ fellows who collectively raised $40M+ and joined YC, Thiel Fellowship, and Techstars
  • Organized events for 30 to 200 people across Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia
  • Organic content marketing reached 1.5M+ impressions
  • I managed Andres Bilbao (90k followers) social media presence to help businesses grow

Co-Founder

Trendi

December 2021 - February 2023

Created an educational program and community for content creators in Latin America.

  • Built community of 145 creators from 13 different countries
  • VC-backed and accelerated by Platanus Ventures (<1% acceptance rate for technical founders)
  • I was in charge of sales and we achieved up to $85k annual run rate
  • Read the post-mortem about Trendi's closure

Software Engineer

Beek.io

March 2021 - November 2021

Audio-content platform for Latin America backed by Y Combinator, Lightspeed, Accel, Greylock & Thiel Fellowship

  • Completely rebuilt website using NextJS improving SEO
  • Resolved Stripe and Apple subscription payment issues
  • Customized onboarding process based on user metadata
  • Worked with React, React Native, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL
  • Helped sustain development after 60% of the team (four senior engineers) departed

Software Engineer

National Western Life Insurance

January 2020 - March 2021

Rebuilt endpoints for insurance agent workflows from scratch.

  • Built end-to-end tests with JavaScript, Mocha, WebDriver, and Cucumber
  • Transitioned from SDET to backend engineer; built endpoints for insurance agents using .NET on Azure

Production Support Engineer

Citi North America

January 2019 - June 2019

Technical support for enterprise clients.

  • Learned SQL, Linux, and Shell scripting

Student Researcher

Instituto Tecnologico de Morelia

Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

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

  • Studied smart energy metering to reduce technical and non-technical losses
  • Supervised by Prof. Jose Luis Monroy (University of Waterloo researcher)
Side-Quests: Hackathons and Projectsv

Napa Hackathon

2025

Organized and hosted a hackathon in Napa, California in less than 1 week at the end of 2025 with support of Anthropic, Supabase, Lovable and Vercel, we got the attendance of 45 engineers.

AI Avatar Project

2025

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

Building for the Real World Hackathon Winner of best voice solution

2025

We built a voice-first app that streamlines daily truck check-ins for drivers and managers, replacing long forms and manual review; judged by OpenAI and Anthropic.

Gen Z Fellowship Program

2023

Co-hosted Gen Z Fellowship Program, this was a completely free program where we supported 20 founders.

San Francisco Hackathon Winner

On Deck

2021

I was part of On Deck Catalyst Cohort 2 and participated in On Deck's Build Weekend.

  • Out of 16 projects, our team won the $4,000 cash prize
  • I was responsible for designing and building the prototype
  • We developed an educational investment app for kids, where they could earn money deposited by their parents through gamification, helping them build financial literacy skills
  • As a result, we also received a fast-track interview for the ODX accelerator
Misc Achievementsv
  • Languages learned on my own: English (C1), German (B1), French (B1)
  • Achieved <9% body fat
  • 1,000 lbs+ club: Deadlift 200 kg, Squat 160 kg, Bench 110 kg
  • Competitive Runescape player during childhood, reached level 134

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