Zürich, Switzerland

Carlos Prieto

Product Owner · Engineer · Builder

Product owner for AI tools, with 20+ years of engineering, architecture, and product behind the decisions.

Career arc

  1. JavaDeveloper 2005 – 2010
  2. SolutionArchitect 2010 – 2019
  3. ProductManager 2019 – 2023
  4. ProductOwner 2023 – 2025
  5. IndependentBuilder 2025 – present

Hands-on engineering credibility at every level of the ladder, from code to roadmap.

What I do best

  • Translate messy customer requirements into clean, reusable product features — not one-offs, not special cases.

  • Design features that scale across users, tenants, and markets.

  • Bridge architecture and product integrations, system landscapes, how the pieces actually fit.

  • Ship AI product features agentic retrieval, document processing, tool-use loops, running in production today.

  • Lead distributed teams across Switzerland, Hungary, India, and Serbia with clarity and motivation.

Selected work

Three deep case studies. Same structure each time: context, problem, what I did, outcome, reflection.

Currently building

Building with AI, not just reading about it.

  • usrPulse

    In development

    A multi-tenant feedback platform with LLM-driven analytics (sentiment, tagging, keyword extraction) built on AWS Bedrock. Embeddable submission flows, self-serve insights dashboard.

Experience

  1. Jun 2025 – present

    Independent product owner + engineer

    AMICOVERED · usrPulse

    Zürich
  2. Jun 2023 – Jun 2025

    Product Owner, Farcaster DMP

    Goldbach Media

    Zürich
  3. Jun 2019 – Jun 2023

    Product Manager, Skye

    Innoveo

    Zürich
  4. Dec 2010 – Jun 2019

    Senior Solution Architect

    Innoveo

    Zürich
  5. Nov 2006 – Dec 2010

    Java Developer / Solution Architect

    CSC (now DXC)

    Spain
  6. May 2005 – Nov 2006

    Java Developer

    Felguera TI

    Spain

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About

I'm a product owner with a deep engineering and architecture background. I started as a Java developer in Spain, moved into solution architecture at Innoveo in Zürich, then took on product for the Skye no-code insurance platform — the same system I'd helped build. After twelve years at Innoveo I moved into media as Product Owner for Goldbach's data management platform, leading a distributed team in Zürich and Belgrade.

Since mid-2025 I've been independent, building AI products that tackle the same kind of messy real-world problems I've always enjoyed. AMICOVERED is a live Swiss insurance app with agentic reasoning over users' own policy documents. usrPulse is a multi-tenant feedback platform with LLM-driven analytics, currently in development.

Based in Zürich. Open to remote, hybrid, or on-site. carlos.prieto.lab@gmail.com .

Contact

Location
Zürich, Switzerland