Juan Hurtado is a product leader and former full-stack developer with eight years of experience building AI-driven conversational products across Latin America. As Head of Product at Jelou AI he leads the developer marketplace and SMB product Pocket, scaling adoption rapidly and powering over $50M USD per year in transactional volume via WhatsApp agents. He combines hands-on technical experience launching Web3 dApps and frontend systems with product instincts shaped by growth marketing wins at McDonald’s Ecuador. Juan’s work focuses on core capabilities like KYC and linkless payments, enabling real transactional flows inside chat where most companies are still experimenting. Comfortable bridging design, engineering, and commercial teams, he has a track record of turning conversational AI ideas into scalable revenue-generating products. Based in Guayaquil, he pairs Harvard Business School Online training with practical execution across startups and enterprise integrations.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Marketing, Marketing at Universidad de Navarra
CORe: Credential of Readiness, with Honors, CORe: Credential of Readiness, with Honors at Harvard Business School Online
Intercambio, Marketing, Intercambio, Marketing at University of Asia and the Pacific
Full Stack Developer, Full Stack Developer at Henry
This serves as a backend for my E-commerce Dashboard repo.
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