Background
Six years turning systems into the way a company actually runs.
I started out writing software on the cloud and today I decide how the ERP, the data and the AI fit together. What is worth telling is not the list of tools: it is that each stage left behind a capability the company kept using after I left.
About me
I work where enterprise architecture, management platforms and applied artificial intelligence meet. What a company actually buys is rarely a diagram: it is that the same figure stops being typed into three systems, that the month-end close lands on time, and that the cost of serving a customer falls far enough to sell for less without earning less. That is the part large companies solved years ago with budgets a mid-sized company does not have.
I started in 2020 building applications on AWS, spent a stretch moving critical systems to the cloud, and since 2024 I have implemented Odoo ERP end to end: requirements, configuration, testing, go live and support. Today I design solution architectures for transformation programmes with AI, and I contribute to the Odoo Community Association.
I do not sell hours. I hand over assets: an architecture written down, a system in operation and a team that knows how to run it.
- Based in
- Quito, Ecuador
- How I work
- Remote and hybrid; on site in Quito and in Bogotá, Colombia
- Languages
- Spanish, native · English, intermediate
- Community
- Contributor to the Odoo Community Association, the non-profit that maintains hundreds of free Odoo modules
Track record
Enterprise solutions architect, on my own account
Andrés Briñez
- Architecture, Odoo and applied AI for mid-sized companies, with a written scope and published prices: what the work includes, what it costs and where it ends are on the site before the first call.
- Work sold as pieces a company can actually buy rather than as an open-ended project: process mapping, an architecture map, an upgrade radar for the custom code nobody dares touch, and a maturity diagnostic to answer what has to be settled before signing anything.
- Odoo Community implementations with my own Ecuadorian localisation: electronic invoicing built to the specification of the SRI, Ecuador's tax authority, already authorised in its test environment, and supplier invoices that enter the system on their own, on the free edition rather than the paid one.
- AI put inside processes that already work: document automation, transcription and minutes, assistants over operational flows.
Odoo and enterprise architecture consultant
Penta Digital Lab
- Solution architecture on Odoo for a consumer-goods multinational: target operating model, gap analysis, systems integration and the deliverables the client signs off.
- Process modelling with C4, BPMN 2.0 and ArchiMate; documentation as code in Markdown and LaTeX, with the architecture decisions recorded as they were taken, so the reasoning outlived the meeting it came from.
- Generative AI inside the programme itself: document automation, meeting transcription and minutes, assistants over operational flows.
- A React and TypeScript web application to model the ERP's flows, so the people who run each process could read their own; audits and bulk data loads on Odoo.sh.
Lead Odoo and cloud architect
TECNACORP
- An Odoo platform built on free OCA modules, containers and continuous integration: the discipline a large company pays a vendor for, without the licence bill.
- Cloud deployment with infrastructure as code and managed secrets, so the platform could be rebuilt from its repository rather than from somebody's memory.
- Observability with Grafana, Prometheus and Loki; disaster recovery with automated backups, tested rather than assumed.
- Business intelligence with Apache Superset on top of the ERP, automation with n8n, field data capture with KoboToolbox and secure access with Cloudflare Zero Trust.
ERP solutions architect and presales
SOINTEM
- End-to-end Odoo implementations in manufacturing, retail, floriculture, e-commerce and services.
- Configuration of Accounting, Inventory, Purchasing, Sales, Manufacturing, CRM and HR; functional testing and user acceptance.
- Opportunity classifiers built with Dialogflow and wired into WhatsApp, which in this part of the world is where customers and suppliers actually talk.
- Technical proposals with an estimated return, for manufacturers and for groups of companies under one owner.
Cloud solutions specialist
Universal Waterproofing
- Automations and custom Odoo modules; migration to AWS with Docker and Terraform.
Before that: cloud developer at Nutrabiotics (Bogotá, Colombia, 2022–2023), moving critical systems to AWS; and full-stack developer at Shield Cloud (2020–2022), with React, Node and infrastructure as code.
Credentials
Education
- Systems Engineering, in progressUniversidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, UNAD, Colombia's national open university2025 – 2027
Frameworks
- TOGAFAs a reference for architecture governance, not as liturgy: the part that serves a mid-sized company
- ArchiMateFor the company as a whole: business, application and technology layers
- C4 modelFor each system built or integrated, in four levels of zoom
- BPMN 2.0For processes, with minutes the client's team signs
- Self-taughtNo certification behind them. What there is to judge is published: the maps on this site, the localisation diagrams and 132 books with a card each
Certificates
- AWS fundamentals and computePlatzi, the Spanish-language online school for developers
- High-concurrency architecture (Platzi)
- Business intelligence and data science for business (Platzi, 2020)
- Cybersecurity, data-loss prevention and social engineering (Platzi)
- Professional Python, object-oriented programming and algorithms (Platzi)
- Git and GitHub, application deployment and backend (Platzi)
Languages
- Spanish · Native
- English · Intermediate
What I read
What holds up a judgement is not the last project, it is what gets read between projects. This is the library I work from, sorted by subject, with a card for every book: what it says, what I did with it, and which ones gave me little.
The rest: 17 on business and selling, 16 on foundations -the mathematics, statistics and logic that hold up the others-, 8 on finance, 3 on tax rules and 12 that fit on no shelf.
Each one has an entry written about it, not a line in a list. The ones that gave me little are there too, with the reason, because a library where everything is excellent is no use for deciding what to read next.