Juan Idrovo - Resume | Product-Focused Technologist & Legal-Tech Builder

Professional Summary

Product-focused technologist with legal expertise building compliance and legal-tech solutions. Founded Markatzy, an AI-powered trademark monitoring platform now serving IP law firms in Ecuador. Identified the problem during IP law practice, then built and shipped production software that automates what would otherwise require 170,000+ manual comparisons monthly for a mid-sized firm. At Kriptos Inc., bridged security compliance and engineering: managed SOC 2 Type II certification managing vulnerabilities across 220+ repositories, then shipped 37,000+ lines of TypeScript/React for enterprise agent deployment platform. Licensed attorney (Ecuador) with postgraduate cybersecurity training (UT Austin McCombs) and AWS certification. Bilingual Spanish/English, learning German.

Technical Proficiency

Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python | React, Next.js, Node.js

Infrastructure: AWS (S3, EC2, Amplify), Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis | CI/CD automation

Compliance & Security: SOC 2 Type II, Vanta, Strike, SonarCloud | Vulnerability assessment & remediation

AI/Legal-Tech: RAG systems, OpenAI API, pgvector | Semantic/phonetic matching (Double Metaphone) | SENADI IP database integration

Product Stack: tRPC, Prisma, Express, Zod, Tailwind CSS | Hexstrike, Amazon Inspector

Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent - TOEFL 104/120), German (learning - A2)

Professional Experience

Frontend Developer & Cybersecurity Analyst (Contract) | Kriptos Inc., Miami, FL (Remote) Oct 2024 - Present

Built frontend for Update Manager platform enabling enterprise clients (including Latin American banks) to deploy and monitor Windows security agents across thousands of endpoints. Delivered 37,000+ lines of production TypeScript/React (primary contributor to core repository) implementing real-time agent status monitoring, automated deployment workflows, and role-based access controls.
Managed vulnerability remediation for SOC 2 Type II certification, triaging findings from automated scans (SonarCloud, Amazon Inspector, Hexstrike) across 220+ repositories and coordinating resolution with development teams. Implemented security fixes in primary frontend repository (authentication flows, dependency updates, input validation) while maintaining feature delivery schedule.
Reduced pre-commit hook runtime by 50% by configuring selective test execution on changed files only (full test suite still runs on merge to main). Refined existing Mock Service Worker (MSW) setup into coherent mocked backend layer with schema definitions, enabling frontend work to proceed while backend APIs were being developed and providing precise API contracts for faster iteration.

Founder & Lead Developer | Markatzy - AI-Powered Trademark Monitoring Platform Jan 2023 - Present (Full-time 2023-2024, part-time while at Kriptos 2024-Present)

Founded SaaS platform solving trademark conflict detection problem identified during IP law practice. Now serving IP law firms in Ecuador. For a mid-sized firm with 100 brands, platform automates 170,000+ monthly comparisons and applies DuPont factor analysis to filter results down to single-digit percentages, allowing attorneys to focus exclusively on genuine conflicts.
Built full-stack web application (TypeScript/React/Next.js) with multi-dimensional AI-powered conflict detection: semantic similarity (OpenAI embeddings + pgvector HNSW), phonetic matching (Double Metaphone + IPA scoring), and typographic analysis. Implemented two-tier search architecture achieving 60-100ms end-to-end latency across hundreds of thousands of database entries (Tier 1 Metaphone filtering in 1-32ms, Tier 2 IPA phonetic + typographic scoring in 57-97ms). Parallel batch processing scales to millions of comparisons monthly across organizations.
Engineered event-driven data pipeline for trademark data ingestion with background job processing. Implemented data validation, deduplication, and multi-stage enrichment workflows (IPA phonetic forms, semantic embeddings, Metaphone indexing) ensuring data quality for conflict detection accuracy.

Attorney Associate & Technology Consultant | Grace Nelson Attorneys at Law, Cuenca, Ecuador Apr 2021 - Present (Full-time Apr 2021 - Oct 2022, Contract Oct 2022 - Present)

Managed immigration procedures for 100+ U.S. nationals annually with 98%+ approval rate
Led firm's digital transformation: implemented first CRM system, automated workflow processes, and developed multi-language website with secure payment processing and appointment booking
Coordinate real estate transactions and provide counsel on intellectual property and technology-related legal matters

IP Attorney | IMBAIP Cia. Ltda., Quito, Ecuador Jan 2022 - Oct 2022

Managed trademark registration, opposition, and appeal processes for 200+ trademark applications before SENADI (Ecuador's IP office)
Built custom scripts to supplement inadequate firm tools for trademark monitoring workflows, automating comparison of ~1,700 weekly publications against client portfolios. Experience with these limitations led to founding Markatzy.
Drafted legal actions and maintained comprehensive case management system for IP portfolio management

Education

Postgraduate Diploma in Cybersecurity | University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business 2025

GPA: 4.13/4.0 | Focus: Network Security, Cyber Attacks, Security Controls, Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC)

Software Engineering Diploma | BrainStation (Konrad Group), London, UK Oct 2024

Won Lloyds Banking Group partnership hackathon (team project building fintech fraud detection prototype). Intensive 12-week program covering full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, and agile methodologies.

Abogado (Law Degree, equivalent to J.D.) | Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador Apr 2021

260 credits | Thesis: "Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) in Dollarized Economies" - analyzed implementation challenges for digital currency adoption in Ecuador's dollarized monetary system. Relevant coursework: Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, International Commercial Law.