From Córdoba to San Francisco: Building Developer Tools for the AI Era

I grew up in Córdoba, Argentina — a city that most people in tech haven't heard of but that produces some of the best engineers in Latin America.

I studied Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Universidad Católica de Córdoba. The program was rigorous, but what shaped me most wasn't the coursework — it was the culture of building things from scratch with limited resources. In Córdoba, you learn to be resourceful. You learn to ship with constraints. That mentality became the foundation of everything I've built since.

My career started at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, working on manufacturing innovation. Then I moved into software — first as a QA automation engineer, then at Solvd building testing frameworks, then at Pluto TV as a Senior Software Test Engineer working on one of the largest streaming platforms in the world. Each step taught me something about building products at scale.

But the move that changed everything was deciding to build Bugster.

I went through Founder University (Cohort 7), then Build Club's Y24 batch in Sydney, Australia, and Startmate's W24 batch. These programs connected me with founders and investors across the US, Australia, and LATAM who were all seeing the same thing: AI was transforming how code gets written, but nobody was solving the testing and review problem that comes with it.

Bugster was born from that insight. We're building AI-powered QA agents that understand your application, test your flows, and give development teams the confidence to ship fast without breaking things. No scripts. No dedicated QA team. Just intelligent agents that test like a senior engineer would.

Today, I split my time between Córdoba and San Francisco. I recently judged the Agent Glow Up Hackathon in SF alongside Google, and our team at Bugster is growing. But my roots in Córdoba are core to who I am as an engineer and founder.

The Argentine tech ecosystem is underrated. The engineers coming out of Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Mendoza are world-class. They just need more visibility. That's partly why I'm writing this — to show that you can build a global developer tools company from Córdoba, Argentina, and compete with anyone in the world.

If you're an engineer in Argentina thinking about starting something: do it. The technical talent is here. The resourcefulness is here. The global market is accessible. The only thing missing is your decision to start.