About Me

I build products that help you ship faster and waste less time.

I'm Mario Guerra. For the last 18 years, I've built products, APIs, and AI systems.

At Microsoft, I led TypeSpec—an open-source API definition language. Today, nearly all Azure services use it to generate SDKs, cutting their development and review time by over 30%.

Currently, I focus on AI. I build products that automate the tedious parts of your work, so you can focus on solving real problems.

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Mario Guerra
/ Track Record

Experience & Impact.

Where I've worked and what I shipped there.

Principal Product Engineer, AI Strategy & Architecture

2025 - Present

IntelePeer/Aqurio

Own AI product strategy and the engineering execution behind it, from architecture through production rollout.

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AI Agent Delivery Platform

Architected and built the company's AI Agent Delivery Platform, shipping the full production stack and delivering the first live customer deployment in just three weeks.

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Patient Engagement Platform

Designed a healthcare patient-engagement platform on Temporal, Python, and PostgreSQL, with messaging workflows built for scalable, compliance-aware patient outreach.

Founder & AI Architect

2025 - Present

IgnitionAI

An AI consultancy that deploys senior engineering agents to architect and launch products in days, not weeks. Helping startups and SMBs turn ideas into launch-ready tools with measurable ROI.

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Orchid, Orchestration Interactive Debugger

Created Orchid, a local-first proxy and visual debugger for AI pipelines. Captures API traffic at the transport layer to record LLM prompts, tool payloads, and decisions to a local SQLite database. Integrates with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to expose trace queries to agents, enabling step-by-step visual debugging and deterministic offline replay testing.

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SOLO Protocol

Created SOLO (Single Operator Loop Orchestration), a framework that turns AI coding assistants into a production-grade engineering team of one. Slash-command workflows enforce spec-driven design, security-first architecture, and test-driven development, so every feature is architected, critiqued, and revised before a line of code is written.

Senior Product Manager, TypeSpec API Definition Language

2021 - 2025

Microsoft

Led product vision and strategy for TypeSpec, an open-source API definition language transforming API development. Guided Azure service teams as a member of the Azure API Stewardship Board, and defined the KPIs used to measure product success and iterate on real-world usage.

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TypeSpec 1.0 Launch

Led the zero-to-one launch of TypeSpec, delivering an API definition language that achieved 8-10x code reduction and 30% faster review times, delivering measurable developer productivity.

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@azure Functionality in GitHub Copilot

Prototyped a RAG-based solution to improve the model's responses, enhancing developer productivity through context-aware code suggestions with secure data handling.

Principal Engineering Manager, Hexagon DSP Tools

2008 - 2021

Qualcomm

Led the development of tools and platforms for Qualcomm's Hexagon DSP, the core of Snapdragon modem and Neural Processing Unit technology. Served as de-facto product manager for Hexagon tools used by first-party software teams, improving on-time delivery by 35% through data-driven development processes.

Independent R&D

Ongoing

Personal Projects

Self-directed work exploring where LLMs actually hold up in production.

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RAG-Enhanced Chatbots with Microsoft Teams Data

Built RAG-enhanced chatbots using Graph API and Azure Foundry, leveraging LLMs to optimize workflows and demonstrate API-driven user support with secure data exchange.

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AI Document Summarization

Developed an LLM-based solution to summarize large documents, optimizing data pipelines for efficient, secure processing with a sliding window approach.

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