Santos Hernandez
Serial builder. Lead Product Engineer at Stellar One. Shipping AI products, building agentic systems, and scaling teams. Previously founding product hire at ZBD ($0 to $12M ARR, 10K to 3M users).
10+ years in fintech, product, and data infrastructure. Led roadmap, strategy, and product at ZBD from seed onward — scaling team to 10, owning AI governance, and securing MiCAR (first in Europe). $800K/mo in product sales at Bank of America.
I started out when I was 11 building custom sites for insurance agents, spinning up custom game servers and databases. I am entirely self-educated, having completed 75+ MOOCs and 100+ books.
I got into competitive esports, reaching greater than 1% of North America across multiple games. My interests include AI, product building, community, coffee, and movies.