Uriel Crampton
Montevideo, Uruguay · Available worldwide

I build ambitious products
from zero to production.

Software engineer and product builder working across AI, IoT and cloud. I started building software and hardware to understand how things worked — eventually those projects left the desk: apps got users, hardware reached classrooms, and systems had to work in stadiums, hospitals and production.

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Backed / recognized by ANIILATU · IngenioMicrosoftSantander XIEEEESPN · Disney+PwC
Uriel Crampton
Co-Founder & Technical Lead — HyLabs · B.S. Computer Science, Universidad de Montevideo
Team

Led a team of 7 engineers and designers at HyLabs — firmware, backend, web, design.

Funding

Over $250K USD raised across startup funding, investment and event sponsorship.

In use

170 active licenses and 30 portable lab kits running in classrooms today.

Leadership

Chair of IEEE SBRM 2025: 200 participants from 15 countries, volunteer team.

01 — Selected work

Products, not portfolios.

Each project pushed further than the last — the problem, what I built, and what happened when it met the real world.

TURNING POINT
hyract.com/hylabs ↗

HyLabs

Co-Founder & Technical Lead · 2024 — 2026

Problem

A physical science lab is out of reach for most schools — cost, space and maintenance keep students out of real experimentation.

What I built

A portable lab platform: a plug-and-play IoT sensor hub plus a cloud product that streams live experiment data, guides practices and generates reports — with an AI assistant (LLMs + computer vision) that analyses results and writes them up.

How it grew

What started as an engineering project became a company. I architected the full stack — and as the product grew, my responsibilities grew with it: the technical roadmap, a 7-person team across firmware, backend, web and design, funding, pilots and product decisions.

Next.js PostgreSQL AWS · Azure LLMs · Azure Vision Embedded IoT
170+
active licenses
30+
labs deployed
5×
cheaper than a lab

Why it matters: hardware, cloud, AI and a real go-to-market — backed by ANII, LATU and Ingenio, finalist for the PwC Uruguay Innovation Award 2025.

HyLabs
IEEE SBRM 2025
Leadership at scale 2025 · Punta del Este

IEEE SBRM 2025

Chair · fully volunteer organizing team

I proposed, won and ran Uruguay's first Student Branches Regional Meeting: a six-figure, three-day congress for 200+ students and young professionals from 15+ countries, with international speakers, workshops and sponsor programs.

Owned budget, sponsorship (IEEE Region 9, IEEE Foundation, Photonics & ComSoc, Oracle), logistics and a distributed volunteer team — the closest thing to running a company for a year.

200+ attendees 15+ countries 6-figure budget
Enterprise engineering 2025 — 2026

World Travel Inc.

Full Stack Engineer · founding Uruguay team

One of the largest corporate travel consolidators in the US. I joined the founding engineering team in Uruguay, building and maintaining production web applications that carry real-time travel data and enterprise integrations for global corporate clients.

  • → Led the maintenance and feature team for systems in production.
  • → Shipped full-stack work on Next.js, PostgreSQL and AWS.
  • → Hardened CI/CD, monitoring and alerting to cut downtime and hold SLAs.
  • → Worked daily with distributed international teams and corporate IT standards.

Why it matters: proof I operate inside large-company constraints — compliance, reliability, review culture — not only in startup mode.

Terum drone
Robotics · live broadcast 2024

Terum — autonomous match drone

Hardware & systems lead · with DRONE.UY and UM

A custom drone with a 3D-printed mechatronic release module that carried the ball to midfield at Los Teros' international matches — designed, built and flown under live-broadcast conditions with zero margin for retries.

Broadcast live on ESPN and Disney+ to 350,000+ viewers.
Hisomatic
AI · robotics · health 2024

Hisomatic — hospital sampling robot

Technical lead · 4-person team

An autonomous robot that standardizes bacterial sampling in hospitals to reduce infection risk — computer vision, motion control and a clinical workflow the staff actually follows.

Winner — Robotics & AI Hackathon (Microsoft + Ingenio LATU) 1st place, University category — Santander X Awards Uruguay 2024
Also in production

Systems that run real operations every day — from Uruguay's national stadium to logistics fleets.

Movera

Route-optimization platform for truck fleets: live traffic planning, delivery windows, GPS tracking, dynamic reassignment.

Empresariales.uy

Enterprise event booking and management platform, delivered end-to-end and highlighted in client reviews.

Ticketing platform

Online sales, QR generation and access control used at major productions and venues in Uruguay.

Estadio Centenario — business systems

Accounting, electronic invoicing and financial reporting for the stadium, plus POS and inventory running the Museo del Fútbol's retail.

FING TU APP

Mobile app for engineering students — Top 7 in Google Play's Education category, Uruguay 2021.

02 — Experience

From prototypes to production.

At first I could build a solution alone. Then came users, clients, infrastructure and deadlines — and the role grew with the problems.

Jun 2026 — Present
Uruguay

Technical Lead · 24defend

AI-powered anti-phishing and fraud-prevention platform protecting users across SMS, WhatsApp, email and web. I lead the product and technical architecture end-to-end — mobile, backend, cloud, AI-assisted threat analysis and enterprise integrations — including a low-latency hybrid detection architecture that combines on-device classification with centralized threat intelligence and event-driven blocking.

AI threat analysis On-device detection Cloud architecture REST APIs · webhooks Technical roadmap
Jan 2024 — Jul 2026
Montevideo, UY

Co-Founder & Technical Lead · HyLabs

Built the portable-lab platform from first prototype to a product with paying schools: full-stack architecture, IoT data pipeline, AI assistant — and, as it grew, a 7-person team, innovation grants and investment.

Next.js PostgreSQL AWS · Azure LLM integrations Team leadership
Sep 2025 — Apr 2026
Montevideo, UY

Full Stack Engineer · World Travel Inc.

Founding member of the Uruguay engineering team at a major US corporate-travel consolidator. Led maintenance and feature delivery for production systems, improved reliability through CI/CD and monitoring, and shipped alongside international teams.

Next.js PostgreSQL AWS CI/CD · observability
Jan 2022 — Aug 2024
Montevideo, UY

Co-Founder & Technical Lead · Hyract

Deep-tech studio building hardware–software platforms for real-time data. Owned architecture, ML optimization models and cloud integrations; defined the product roadmap, led funding pitches, and represented the company at Collision and Web Summit. Named a Top IoT & RPA consulting company 2024 by Clutch.

2019 — Present
Uruguay · remote

Full Stack Developer & AI Consultant · Independent

Custom platforms for events, retail and industry — ticketing and access control at Estadio Centenario, FunFest by Conmebol and Huawei; computer-vision tooling for industrial environments; multimodal AI agents for AR procedural guides.

2023 — 2025
Uruguay

Technology Advisor & Instructor · Instituto Geselliano · Universidad de Montevideo

Advised teachers on integrating technology in the classroom and taught hands-on electronics, microcontrollers and programming — plus engineering workshops and prototype mentoring at UM.

03 — Recognition

Selected recognition.

Awards, elected roles and press coverage from Microsoft, Santander, IEEE and national media.

2024

Winner — Robotics & AI Hackathon

Microsoft + Ingenio LATU. Autonomous hospital sampling robot.

2024

1st place — Santander X Awards Uruguay

University category, for innovation and impact.

2025

Chair — IEEE SBRM 2025

First edition in Uruguay; 200+ participants from 15+ countries.

2024

Featured innovation — autonomous drone

Los Teros international matches, live on ESPN and Disney+.

2023 — Present

IEEE leadership roles

Uruguay student section representative; Region 9 entrepreneurship committee.

2023 — 2025

Global stages

Collision, Web Summit, CLEI & JAIIO finalist, talks at universities across LATAM.

In the press
El Observador — RadarIA

Live on #RadarIA with CUTI and the co-founder of PedidosYa.
Canal 4 — Vamo Arriba

The Uruguayans who built a portable physics lab, live on national TV.
ESPN / Disney+

The autonomous drone that delivered the ball at Uruguay vs. Scotland.
El Observador — Café y Negocios

Democratizing science in classrooms — and expanding across the region.
InfoNegocios

Teaching science for US$5 per student per month.
Universidad de Montevideo

First place in the University category at Santander X.
Uriel Crampton
04 — About

I like owning the whole problem.

I'm an engineer from Uruguay. I enjoy owning problems end-to-end: understanding what actually needs to be solved, designing the system, writing the code, shipping it — and seeing what happens when real people use it.

Taking products further kept forcing me to learn things that don't fit inside an IDE: talking to users, prioritizing a roadmap, presenting ideas, raising funding, coordinating a team. Those things made me a better engineer — not a less technical one.

I still want to be close to the architecture, the code and the product.

The toolbox those products required

Full-stack

Next.js, React, Node, PostgreSQL.

Product & architecture

Discovery, UX, system design, scalability.

AI & LLMs

OpenAI, Gemini, LangChain, computer vision.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Azure, CI/CD, monitoring.

IoT & hardware

Embedded systems, sensors, 3D design.

Technical leadership

Roadmaps, mentoring, technical decisions, delivery.

05 — Education
Universidad de Montevideo
Expected Nov 2026

B.S. in Computer Science

Universidad de Montevideo — School of Engineering

80% merit-based scholarship. Software engineering, embedded systems, data processing, IoT.

Georgia State University
Jul 2025

Leadership & Business Globalization

Georgia State University — Atlanta, GA

Fully funded international program: leadership, public speaking, intercultural teamwork.

UTU
Nov 2020

Technical Diploma — Robotics & Telecom

Instituto Tecnológico Superior — UTU

Hands-on microcontrollers, network infrastructure and automation.

06 — Let's talk

Building something
ambitious?

I'm looking for the next hard product to build — product engineering, forward-deployed engineering and founding-engineer roles where engineers have real ownership, from the problem to architecture, implementation and production. I do my best work embedded where the problem lives — with users, clients and real constraints, not just tickets. Comfortable taking technical leadership when needed, but always close to the product and the code.

Location
Montevideo, Uruguay
Phone
+598 98 861 006
Languages
Spanish (native) · English