CTO, AI Product Engineering & Agentic Software

I’m Miguel Ángel Ballesteros, CTO and co-founder of GoKoan. I also lead the technical/product work behind Koanly, a GoKoan product for AI-powered educational content production.

I help turn complex knowledge into useful software: AI learning products, educational content systems, AI tutors, engineering feedback loops and agentic workflows that let small teams move faster without losing control of quality.

My strongest professional pattern is not “using AI because it is new”. It is building systems where product, architecture, data, evaluation, team practices and AI-assisted execution fit together.

What I do

AI product engineering: transform fuzzy AI opportunities into production features with clear user value.
Agentic software workflows: design repo rules, guardrails, feedback loops and review processes so coding agents behave more like experienced team members.
Learning systems: build tools that help people study, understand, remember and progress.
Technical leadership: reduce ambiguity, structure teams, improve engineering quality and turn tacit knowledge into operating practices.
Architecture under real constraints: cost, latency, reliability, maintainability, data quality and evolving product needs.

Current focus

I am especially interested in:

LLMs and agents in real software teams.
AI tutors and personalized learning.
Retrieval, evaluation and quality loops for AI systems.
Turning PR comments, production bugs and operational pain into reusable engineering guidance.
Helping small teams get senior-level leverage from AI without creating fragile systems.

Selected proof points

Co-founded and led technology at GoKoan, an edtech platform combining planning, learning science and AI.
Applied generative AI to educational content generation and tutoring since the early GPT-3 era.
Built and documented agentic engineering practices from real codebases and review history.
Led complex software modernization and architecture work before the AI wave, including healthcare, education, portals, search and enterprise Java systems.
Wrote about software and programming since the 1990s, including published technical articles on Java, C/C++ and web architecture.

For concrete examples, see Selected work.

Writing that represents my current work

Good conversations

I am usually useful in conversations about:

CTO / Head of AI / AI Product Engineering roles.
Turning AI prototypes into reliable product capabilities.
Making engineering teams more effective with agents and copilots.
Learning products, tutoring systems and content automation.
Architecture and operating models for small but ambitious teams.

You can reach me by email or on LinkedIn from the sidebar.