Ismael Velasco
Chief Technology Officer at Adora Foundation
Lockerbie, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIsmael Velasco is a founder and multidisciplinary technology leader focused on AI engineering, research and governance, with eight years of formal software experience and over three decades of parallel careers spanning software, social action, and sustainability. He builds green, serverless architectures and agentic AI systems while embedding eco-design and rigorous lifecycle thinking into product and policy work, most recently shaping Life Cycle Assessment tooling and AI4LCA benchmarking. As CTO of EarthShift Global and founder of the Adora Foundation he combines hands-on API and full‑stack engineering with community-driven social innovation and arts-led mobilisation. His track record includes rescuing and modernising a 50,000‑page digital heritage library, rapid crisis-driven productisation during COVID response, and helping design conversational symbolic agents for wellbeing. Comfortable translating across academia, policy and engineering, he deliberately bridges siloed disciplines to apply social, environmental and technical lenses to the same problem. A Mexican cosmopolite and open‑source dabbler, he pairs rigorous systems thinking with a persistent optimism about society’s capacity to adapt.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MA (hons) History Comparative world history, MA (hons) History Comparative world history at The University of Edinburgh
Spanish, English, French, Arabic, Persian, Italian, Portuguese, maasai
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Github Skills (79)
pantheon8
green-software8
testing8
tdd8
lambda7
golang7
laravel7
wordpress7
aws-lambda7
sustainability7
drupal7
consumption7
php7
footprint7
bref6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BahaiLibraryOnline/bahai-library-online-laravel
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Rebuild of the legacy bahai-library.com site in Laravel
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
rebuildlaravelphpbahai
Leamsi9/laravel-rapid
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 41 pushes in 1 month
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