# Omar Jesús Hernández Bastos

> Lead Applied AI Engineer, FinTech. Valencia, Spain. Applied AI & engineering leader with 10+ years building software products, scaling teams and shipping AI in regulated financial environments. Currently Engineering Director, Digital Banking, AI & Data at Blossom.

## Site

- [Home](https://hernandezbastos.es/): the story of a career, from an electronics bench to engineering director
- [CV](https://hernandezbastos.es/cv): the CV as a plain, one column page
- [CV PDF](https://hernandezbastos.es/cv.pdf): the CV to download
- [Full profile](https://hernandezbastos.es/llms-full.txt): everything above in one plain text file
- [Markdown version](https://hernandezbastos.es/index.md): the home page as Markdown

## Projects

- [CrimsonDesert.app](https://crimsondesert.app): A Crimson Desert fan wiki with an interactive map of 9,300+ markers. 37k visitors in its first week.
- [codigopostal.app](https://codigopostal.app): Your Spanish postal code from your device location, with the official IGN street map.
- [jevmod](https://jevmod.dev): Moderation for communities and apps: probabilities per category, thresholds you own.
- [interactive-cli](https://github.com/ohernandezdev/interactive-cli): An MCP server that lets AI coding agents drive interactive command line programs.
- [wtkill](https://github.com/ohernandezdev/wtkill): Finds and cleans stale git worktrees across all your repos, for humans and for AI agents.
- [flint](https://ohernandezdev.github.io/flint/): Create a bootable Windows or Linux USB from an ISO on macOS, safely. A minimalist Rufus for Mac.
- [Silkroad Online, in the browser](https://hernandezbastos.es/silkroad): Silkroad Online, a 2005 MMORPG, ported to WebGL with AI: playable in the browser, with the world, combat, skills and the original interface.
- [KnoxGPS](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3785238102): A road GPS inside Project Zomboid: set a destination on the map and the shortest road route is drawn, with live distance. 2,500+ subscribers, and translated into Chinese by the community.
- [Pickup Livestock](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3785685590): 500+ subscribers.

## Experience

- Engineering Director, Digital Banking and AI, Blossom (Jun 2025 to present)
- Engineering Manager, Online Banking, Blossom (May 2024 to Jun 2025)
- Technical Lead, Banking, Blossom (Jul 2022 to May 2024)
- Full Stack Engineer, Blossom (Jun 2021 to Jul 2022)
- Tech Lead, Metax Americas (Mar 2020 to Apr 2021)
- Head of Web Development, Fix4U Solutions (Jun 2018 to Mar 2020)
- Freelance developer, Fiverr (Jun 2016 to Jan 2018)

## Skills

Generative AI, LLMs, AI Agents, RAG, Embeddings, Vector Search, Prompt Engineering, LLM Fine-Tuning, AWS Bedrock, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, pgvector, GraphQL, Terraform, Serverless, FinTech, Engineering Leadership.

## Contact

- Email: omar@hernandezbastos.es
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/omar-bastos
- GitHub: https://github.com/ohernandezdev
- WhatsApp: @OmarBastos
- [Book 30 minutes](https://calendar.app.google/yAtCWYBJEfs6DQ9T8)