-----BEGIN CONTACT BLOCK----- name: Rodrigo Benzaquen role: Founder & CEO, BoulderTech based: Buenos Aires, AR twitter: @rbenzaquen linkedin: in/rbenzaquen web: bouldertech.fi topics: AI + crypto PGP: (on request) -----END CONTACT BLOCK-----
"Tech enthusiast AI + crypto."
Experience — Now
Managing Partner,
Shefa Investments — Jun 2026–present.
Driving the future where retail and technology converge.
Founder & CEO,
BoulderTech — Dec 2023–present.
Building the infrastructure for sovereign AI: as open-weight models reach frontier
capability, organizations no longer need to send their data to someone else's cloud.
AI Infrastructure & Agents
On-prem inference stack
bare-metal llama.cpp on dual AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (ROCm / RDNA4),
serving Qwen3 MoE & Gemma to a fleet of agents. Notes on tensor-split vs
single-GPU decode, KV-cache quantization (q8_0), parallel slots and context sizing.
OpenClaw multi-agent fleet
~15 agents across WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and web channels, with
Chatwoot human-handoff via a FastAPI webhook receiver (systemd service).
Legal RAG
Spanish-PDF retrieval over pgvector with semantic chunking and
mxbai-embed-large, plus an NL-to-SQL skill with few-shot vector memory.
IP trademark monitoring agent
processes INPI bulletins for an Argentine IP law firm.
Clients & Ecosystem
APPA — IRSA's loyalty super-app (4.3M users, 16 malls): unified loyalty, AI Personal Shopper, fintech wallet.
Experience — Previously
Chief Executive Officer, Nubeliu — Sep 2014–Sep 2020
(6 yrs 1 mo) · São Paulo, Brazil · Hybrid.
IT Specialist, Kaszek Ventures — Jan 2014–Sep 2014
(9 mos) · Argentina. Helping Kaszek portfolio companies to scale IT.
MercadoLibre — 14 yrs 6 mos.
· R&D Director — Oct 2011–Dec 2013 · Palo Alto, CA. Responsible for creating MercadoLibre Labs in Palo Alto.
· Site Operations & Infrastructure Director — Jul 2003–Oct 2011.
· First IT Employee — Jul 1999–Jul 2003.
Boards & Advisory
Advisor — OctUPus
Crypto / DeFi interests
Tokenization of real-world assets & digital securities, on-chain gold
(XAUt / Aave), gold ETFs, BYMA / CEDEARs and the Argentine fintech &
capital-markets stack. Depositary-Receipt architectures for international
investor access.
Education
Stanford University Graduate School of Business —
Kaszek Ventures Innovation and Leadership Program · 2016.
Stanford Continuing Studies —
Managing Innovation, Information Technology · 2013.
Universidad de San Andrés —
Executive Management Program · 2009.
ORT Argentina —
Information Systems Analyst (Equivalent to BS Computer Science),
Information Systems · 1995–1999.
Elsewhere