Ruben Bisso

Innovator & entrepreneur · Product engineer · AI engineer

I build hardwareand AI systemsthat do real work.

Seven years designing physical products, from first sketch to production. Two years building automation and agentic systems that run business operations with a human at the gate. Today I own the automation layer for a 2,000-Realtor brokerage group.

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Ruben Bisso, black and white portrait Open to consulting and remote roles
7+
years of product engineering
50+
production workflows shipped
1,000+
physical units designed and sold
2
SaaS platforms live today

Selected work

Five builds, two disciplines, one habit: ship, then stay on it.

Diagram of the agentic request-to-delivery pipeline with human approval gates

AI & automation · 2026

Agentic request-to-delivery pipeline for a 2,000-Realtor brokerage group

Five service requests were each handled by hand across forms, a CRM, a project board and email. I mapped them end to end, found they shared one intake and one close, and collapsed five builds into one shared pipeline with five small branches. Nothing consequential fires without a human release.

5 → 1
services on one pipeline
2,000+
Realtors, 50+ offices
0
unattended consequential actions
n8nPostgresAsanaTypeformOutlookClaude
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Agenia AI Studio landing page

Product · live since July 2026

Agenia AI Studio, a pay-as-you-go generative AI studio for francophone Africa

Image, video and audio generation paid with Mobile Money from 500 XAF, no subscription, no card. I built the PWA, the credit and wallet model, the payment integration, a provider abstraction so models swap without touching product code, and the safeguards that only matter once real traffic arrives.

500 XAF
minimum top-up
10+
models behind one API
Live
studio.agenia.ai
Next.js 14TypeScriptSupabaseVercelClaude Code
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MYGAZ V4 UltraSense device render

Hardware · 2016 to present

MYGAZ, a smart LPG monitor built through five hardware generations

An IoT device that tells a household how much cooking gas is left before it runs out. Started with a 10,000 FCFA fish-scale sensor and a wooden base, ended with ultrasound sensing, a custom PCB, ESP32 firmware, BLE and a mobile app. Co-founded MYGAZ SAS, raised $30K, won a TEF-GIZ grant.

5
hardware iterations
4
sensing technologies tried
$30K
raised in crowdfunding
Fusion 360ESP32PCB designUltrasoundBLE3D printing
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SkyBulb quadcopter prototype with 3D-printed docking head

Hardware · robotics · 2017 to 2021

SkyBulb, a light bulb a drone can change so nobody has to climb

Falls from height are the leading cause of fatal workplace accidents, and aerial lifts cost $7,000 to $100,000. SkyBulb paired a smart LED bulb with a quadcopter and a 3D-printed docking mechanism, so a faulty lamp on a pole or a ceiling could be swapped from the ground. Flown and docked as a proof of concept with two classmates.

< 2 min
per bulb swap
90%
no human at height
PoC
flown and docked
Fusion 3603D printingQuadcopterDocking mechanismEmbedded
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ZITEEF laser-cut desk organizer with engraved name

Product brand · 2023 to 2024

ZITEEF, a consumer product line designed, manufactured and sold in-house

Desk organizers, engraved frames and phone stands designed in Fusion 360, cut on a diode laser, finished by hand. Trained the team on LightBurn, ran batch production, handled custom orders. The first time something I designed and made myself produced real income.

~1,000
units sold
~$10K
revenue in year one
12
product designs
Laser cuttingFusion 360LightBurnBatch production
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2025ShopymateAI agents for WhatsApp business conversations: support, sales, CRM. Scaffolded with Bolt, rebuilt in Lovable, live at shopymate.ai.Live
2025Agenia automation workCold outbound systems, CRM bridges with six-hour sync and cross-channel suppression, a trigger-first pipeline polling 15+ public feeds. 90% less manual data entry and 3x qualified leads for one client in 60 days.Client work
2025ALGAA Claude plugin with 20+ interoperating skills for LinkedIn growth: research, scoring, message generation, reply monitoring. Built, used, then discontinued. It taught me how to package multi-skill plugins.Discontinued
2020 to 2024Bisso DynamicsProduct design consultancy. 22 projects across consumer electronics, industrial machinery and robotics: an eru slicing machine, drone casings for Tagus Drone, a smart fish tank for Aquareign Industry, a 3D-printed reusable mask.Closed
2019 to 2021ENSPY 3D printing centerDesign engineer with open access to Stratasys FDM and PolyJet machines at the National Advanced School of Engineering. Prototypes, architectural models, client parts.Role

AI & automation

Agents that do the work, and stop where a human should decide.

I start with process discovery rather than tooling: sit with the people who do the work, map what they actually do, then decide what an agent should own, what a human must approve, and what should not be automated at all.

01

Discovery before tooling

Five separate builds became one pipeline because I mapped the work first. Most automation waste comes from automating the org chart instead of the process.

02

Human at the gate

Completion gates before send, specialist approval on the board, a 48-hour escalation that chases stalled work instead of letting it die quietly. The AI prepares, a human releases.

03

Fail loud

An indexing race that returned empty with a clean 200. Truncated identifiers that broke exact-match routing on 24 fields. Each one caught against verbatim production payloads before release, not after.

n8nClaude CodeClaude APIMCPClaude Agent SDKOpenAI APIPythonTypeScriptSupabase / PostgresNext.jsVercelMakeZapierHubSpotGoHighLevelZohoAsanaAirtableTypeformMicrosoft 365Google WorkspaceWhatsApp API
AnthropicClaude Certified Architect · ProfessionalCertified on the Claude ecosystem: API, Agent SDK, MCP, skills and plugins. I build my own Claude plugins and MCP-connected agents. n8nCertified CreatorPublished templates past 3,500 views. One brought in a paying client unprompted. TeachingRuben AI communityA paid community and YouTube channel on the Claude ecosystem and practical automation.

Hardware & product

Sketch, CAD, PCB, print, assemble, test. Then do it again.

Every product I build goes through iterations until it works reliably in the real world. MYGAZ went through five of them, each one a different sensing technology.

V1 · 2017MYGAZ V1 wooden prototype with display unit
Weight, wooden baseFish-scale sensor, Arduino, LCD
V2 · 2018MYGAZ V2 installed under a gas bottle in a kitchen
Body-scale sensorsFour sensors, 80% slimmer, battery
V3 · 2019MYGAZ V3 3D printed enclosure
Infrared, 3D printedFirst printed enclosure
V4 · 2022MYGAZ V4 UltraSense device
Ultrasound, custom PCBUltraSense and UltraDetect, ESP32, BLE
V5 · 2024MYGAZ V5 concept render
Commercial conceptToward the V06 production unit

The story

From a construction site to agentic systems, one build at a time.

2011
First job, age 15

Laborer on a construction site, then iron framework maker. Learned the trade from YouTube the night before claiming I knew it. Stayed five months.

2015
Engineering school

B.Eng Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Did research from an Android phone during a year-long internet shutdown. First computer in fourth year.

2017
First MYGAZ prototype

A fish-scale sensor bought with my last 10,000 FCFA, an Arduino, a wooden base from a carpenter. Garbage data for days, then a single screw-sized fix. It worked.

2019
Grant, FabLab, SkyBulb, dropout

Selected for the TEF-GIZ program ($5,000). Discovered Fusion 360 at a FabLab, bought my first 3D printer, built the SkyBulb drone. Left university a few months from graduating to build full time.

2021
MYGAZ SAS

Crowdfunding raised $30K. Co-founder joined, company formed, ultrasound R&D started. By August 2022, UltraSense and UltraDetect were working.

2023
ZITEEF

Under financial pressure, bought a diode laser and launched a product line. About 1,000 units and $10K in sales by end of 2024.

2024
AI and automation

Vibe-coded Shopymate, opened Agenia, went deep on n8n and the Claude ecosystem. Started teaching what I learned.

2026
Agentic systems in production

Shipped Agenia AI Studio. Hired to build the automation layer of a 2,000-Realtor brokerage group, where the work is now being productised for its offices. Claude Certified Architect.

Ruben Bisso, thinking, black and white
Most of the job is this part.

Writing & videos

I build in public and publish what breaks.

YouTube

Ruben AI

Claude ecosystem tutorials, n8n agents, practical automation for builders and business owners.

youtube.com/@rubeninai → Substack

Ruben AI newsletter

Longer write-ups on agent architecture, human-in-the-loop design and the tools I actually use.

rubenai.substack.com → Community

Ruben AI on Skool

A paid community where I teach this stack to non-technical builders, with templates and live builds.

skool.com/ruben-ai →

Contact

Have an operation that needs an agent and a gate?

Available as a consultant or on a remote team, in three shapes. I answer every serious message.

AI engineerWhat a Claude Certified Architect does for a company: agent architecture, MCP and plugin design, evals, human-in-the-loop systems, Claude Code adoption for your team.
Product engineerSketch to production: CAD in Fusion 360, PCB and firmware, 3D printing and laser, iteration until it works in the field.
Automation consultantProcess discovery, n8n and CRM systems, the operations layer of a business, documented so your team owns it.
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