Omar Hernández Bastos

I build AI products that ship — and earn their keep.

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.

10+Years shipping
30+Engineers led
0→prodML org in 1yr

omarhernandezbastos@gmail.com LinkedIn ↗ GitHub ↗

EXPERIENCE

10+ Years Shipping

A decade building software products and scaling engineering organizations end to end.

LEADERSHIP

Engineering Director

Leads Digital Banking, AI & Data at Blossom — 30+ engineers across AI, data, mobile & online banking.

IMPACT

Zero → Production

Built Blossom’s Data Engineering & ML organization from zero to production in a single year.

Founded AI Engineering

Created the AI team and Blossom Ask — an enterprise AI assistant & agent framework on AWS.

Agentic Banking

Productized an AI-powered Loan Origination System — agentic lending for U.S. credit unions.

STACK

RAG at Scale

AWS Bedrock · Amazon Titan · PostgreSQL/pgvector · ChromaDB · event-driven S3 ingestion.

METRICS

Measurable Wins

−50% PR review time · +60% analytics accuracy · 99.9% uptime · zero rollbacks.

STORY

Fast Climber

Full-Stack Engineer → Technical Lead in 1 year → Engineering Director in four.

EASTER EGG

Electronic Engineer

Trained as an Electronic Engineer at Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira 🇻🇪.

EASTER EGG

Builder at Heart

Ships side products fast — CrimsonDesert.app hit 37k visitors in week one, built with AI.

EASTER EGG

AWS Inner Circle

6+ AWS-led workshops on Generative AI, Bedrock & data platforms; primary AWS liaison.