Summary
Toni Soriano is a Principal AI Engineer and lifelong coder with over 18 years of hands-on experience, currently leading AI initiatives at Sesame HR after progressing from AI Developer. A self-taught Laravel and TALL-stack specialist, he combines deep backend expertise with practical automation skills—CI/CD, custom scrapers, payment integrations—and early adoption experience with tools like Laravel Forge. He has led product and engineering teams at Jabu (YC S21), built a long-running freelance and entrepreneurial practice with Cloudstudio, and continuously ships open-source Laravel packages including a Resource Generator and an Ollama integration. Toni pairs production-grade engineering with experimentation in open-source LLM tooling and consumer AI apps—several personal projects (Kidpofy, Boolu, Phopet, Vidix) showcase his flair for playful UX and practical AI agents. Based in Valencia and an avid world traveler, he brings a global perspective and a knack for turning novel AI ideas into usable developer-first solutions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English, Spanish