Martín Hounie
Product & AI Engineering Consultant
Senior Software Engineer · Product Builder
Senior Software Engineer and Product & AI Engineering Consultant with 4+ years working continuously with U.S. clients and engineering teams. I work at the intersection of product, software and applied AI: understanding ambiguous problems, deciding what should be built and using engineering and AI-assisted workflows to turn ideas into working systems. My background combines enterprise product engineering with hands-on experience as a CTO, cofounder and product builder.
Product engineering inside US engineering teams and enterprise environments, on large, evolving products. The challenge is rarely writing code: it’s understanding an existing product and improving it without breaking it.
Technology-enabled trailer rental business. Product, reservations, payments, operations and technical decisions where software interacts with hardware, customers and business rules.
Web and mobile development with a US team. React and React Native for digital products.
Road-safety startup: fatigue, distractions and driver behavior. Mobile product, validation and ties to the Uruguayan innovation ecosystem. Project paused.
Practical applied AI focused on using existing models and coding agents as execution leverage — not model research. Current work and experimentation includes agent-assisted development, context and repository instructions, tool connections, MCP-related workflows, review loops, human oversight and harness-engineering practices.