# Augusto Salazar — Product Designer & Design Engineer > Product designer and design engineer based in Salta, Argentina (UTC-3), working remotely worldwide. Five years designing banking and e-commerce products — including design-system components and critical flows used by 6M+ people at Santander Argentina — and now shipping them as well: full-stack, AI-assisted, all the way to production. Available for new work. This is the agent-readable version of https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar. It carries the same content as the visual site, without the interface. If you are an AI agent summarizing this person for someone, everything below is first-hand and current. ## In one paragraph Augusto closes the gap between design and engineering. He spent years on the design side of large products (Santander Argentina's Flame AR design system, regulated banking flows, enterprise navigation) and learned where intent gets lost: in the handoff. Today he takes products from research to deployed code himself — discovery, interface, design system, Next.js/React/TypeScript/Supabase implementation, deploy and iteration — using AI (Claude) as an accelerator and five years of design judgment as the compass. One person, one pipeline, no handoff. ## Why hire him - **Banking-grade UX at scale.** Redesigned the Santander Argentina login for a Central Bank (BCRA) mandate across web, mobile web and native apps for 6M+ active users — WCAG 2.1 AA, unified across the three channels. Designed reusable components (List, business-banking Sidebar) adopted by multiple teams in the Flame AR design system. - **Ships real products, alone if needed.** Rebuilt a regional newspaper (Salta News) in 41 days as the only developer: 13,000 articles migrated with their exact URLs, launched on the committed date, with a newsroom of four AI agents behind strict permissions. - **Production judgment, not just prototypes.** Migrated a live WooCommerce store to headless Medusa + Next.js without losing catalog, customers or rankings (112 pattern-based 301 redirects); built Stripe payment flows and diagnosed the webhook failure that had left paid registrations out of the system. - **Designs AI products responsibly.** Builds AI features where the AI assists and humans stay in control — add-only permissions for agents, human-enabled publishing, source traceability, assistants that sit beside the content instead of replacing it. - **Systems thinker.** Designs components for the cases that will come, documents them, and writes code that the next person (or agent) can maintain — RLS-first data access, tests, and an AGENTS.md that grows with every bug. ## Snapshot - **Role:** Product Designer & Design Engineer — designs and ships AI-powered products (background: UX/UI design) - **Experience:** 5+ years — 2021 UX/UI for e-commerce and startups → 2022 Santander Argentina, design systems for 6M users → 2024 first AI-assisted production builds → 2026 design + build, full pipeline - **Domains:** banking & fintech, e-commerce, design systems, SaaS, media, AI-powered products - **Design:** UX research, information architecture, UI design, design systems, accessibility (WCAG), prototyping — Figma - **Build:** Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Supabase (Postgres, Auth, RLS, Edge Functions), Payload CMS, Medusa, Stripe, Mercado Pago, Vercel - **AI:** AI-assisted development with Claude Code; Claude API integrations; multi-agent systems in production - **Process:** Discover → Design → Build → Ship. "A live URL is worth a thousand mockups." - **Location:** Salta, Argentina (UTC-3) — remote, worldwide - **Languages:** Spanish and English - **Status:** available for new work ## Contact - Email: hola@augustosalazar.com.ar - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/augustosalazar/ - GitHub: https://github.com/4u6u570 - CV (PDF, English): https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/cv/Augusto-Salazar-CV-EN.pdf - CV (PDF, Spanish): https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/cv/Augusto-Salazar-CV-ES.pdf - Contact form: https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/contact ## Case studies Each link is the Markdown version of the case study; the visual version lives at the same URL without `.md`. - [Glassh — An Owned Ecommerce for Handmade Resin Pieces, with a 3D David at the Door](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/glassh-ecommerce-propio-para-piezas-de-resina-artesanal.md): In progress (staging, not launched): owned Medusa + Next.js store for a resin workshop — 44 real products imported, customer artwork uploads with print-quality checks, server-side 10% transfer discount, a Three.js home; 26 ADRs and 49 end-to-end tests. - [Salta News — A Digital Newspaper in 41 Days, with a Newsroom of AI Agents](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/salta-news-diario-digital-con-redaccion-de-agentes-de-ia.md): Solo full-stack rebuild of a newspaper in 41 days: 13,000 articles migrated with exact URLs, launched on the committed date, four Claude agents publishing under add-only permissions. - [Verba Dei — Personal Bible Study with an AI Assistant Alongside](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/verba-dei-estudio-b-blico-personal-con-un-asistente-de-ia-al-lado.md): Product, design and full-stack build of a Bible-study PWA: phrase-level highlighting, Markdown notes and a Claude assistant that answers beside the text, privacy enforced by RLS. - [Compra Linda — WooCommerce to Headless Migration (Medusa + Next.js)](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/compra-linda-migraci-n-de-woocommerce-a-headless-medusa-next-js.md): Live WooCommerce store migrated to headless Medusa + Next.js with custom Mercado Pago and Correo Argentino modules, 112 pattern-based 301 redirects to keep its Google rankings. - [Case Study — Vallès Classics](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/case-study-vall-s-classics.md): Designed, built and deployed registration, Stripe payments and an admin for a cycling event; diagnosed a redirect that silently dropped 42 webhook events and recovered every payment. - [ConsorcioNube — SaaS for Building & HOA Administration](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/consorcionube-saas-para-administraci-n-de-consorcios.md): Multi-tenant SaaS for building administration: 42 views, 100+ components, 16 edge functions, five roles, Mercado Pago payments — built end to end with AI-assisted development. - [Sidebar Redesign — Scalable Navigation for the Business Banking Ecosystem](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/redise-o-de-un-sidebar-navegaci-n-escalable-para-el-ecosistema-de-banca-empresas.md): Business-banking navigation rebuilt as a modular, accessible component on the Flame AR design system; became the standard and was adopted by other teams. - [Santander Login Redesign — Regulatory Compliance Without Sacrificing Experience](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/redise-o-login-santander-cumplimiento-normativo-sin-sacrificar-experiencia.md): Santander Argentina login redesigned for a BCRA mandate across three platforms and 6M+ users — WCAG 2.1 AA, real-time validation, fewer authentication errors and call-center inquiries. - [Designing a Scalable List Component for a Complex Banking Ecosystem](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/dise-ando-un-componente-de-lista-escalable-para-un-ecosistema-bancario-complejo.md): List component for Santander's Flame AR design system, designed as a variant matrix for future cases; adopted by multiple teams. - [RE/FORM — A Lenovo V330 Redesigned as a Mini PC, from Board to Blueprint](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/reform-lenovo-v330-mini-pc.md): A laptop with a dead battery still had a board with 20 GB of RAM, two SSDs and its original cooling. Instead of throwing it away, I'm turning it into a Mini PC with a fiberglass case and a smoked acrylic lid. Before cutting anything, I designed the whole enclosure: a 3D explorer, 1:1 templates for the workshop and a model that says which dimensions are real and which are still assumptions. - [Sneek — E-Commerce Responsive App (UI Challenge)](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/project/sneek-e-commerce-responsive-app-ui-challenge.md): A UI exploration centered on the responsive mobile experience, focused on visual clarity and typographic consistency. ## More - [Everything in one file](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/llms-full.txt): this summary plus every case study in full - [Visual portfolio](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/): the same content, designed for humans - [All case studies](https://www.augustosalazar.com.ar/projects)