London, UK

Adolfo Tamayo

Tech Lead, AI Engineering at Lawhive

Hands-on technical lead building AI infrastructure, platform systems, and fintech products. Currently leading AI engineering at Lawhive, evolving legal AI from conversational assistance into agentic workflows that help lawyers work faster.

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AI, platforms, fintech.

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Lawhive

Tech Lead, AI Engineering

Mar 2026 - Present

London, UK

Leading the AI Experience team and the technical direction for Lawrence 2.0, evolving Lawhive's AI from chatbot to autonomous agent.

  • Setting architectural vision and technical roadmap for the AI experience layer.
  • Driving system design through RFCs and architecture reviews.
  • Architecting agentic workflows that can act across the platform on demand or proactively.
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Senior Engineer, AI Platform

Jul 2025 - Mar 2026

London, UK

Built foundational AI infrastructure for document processing, conversational AI, and research automation at scale.

  • Architected ingestion pipelines, case context distillation, and automated document workflows.
  • Built multi-agent conversational AI with streaming responses and citation tracking.
  • Reduced PDF processing latency by roughly 70% through benchmarking and strategy optimisation.
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Revolut

Lead Software Engineer, Technology Governance

Jul 2022 - May 2025

London, UK

Led an internal developer platform for software governance across component catalogues, SLOs, scorecards, service maps, and cost monitoring.

  • Built governance workflows for metadata, ownership, documentation, infrastructure, and observability.
  • Developed scorecards and service health views to drive production readiness and security practices.
  • Connected cloud cost monitoring to component ownership and team accountability.

Lead Software Engineer, NLP

Jul 2021 - Nov 2022

London, UK

Advanced Help Centre CMS, chatbot, and translation services while contributing to Python engineering standards and shared libraries.

  • Mentored up to five backend engineers across localisation, scheduling, and HR systems.
  • Piloted infrastructure migrations and contributed to common Python engineering guidelines.

Senior Software Engineer, Compliance and NLP

Nov 2019 - Aug 2021

London, UK

Helped establish the Compliance Product team before moving into NLP systems for support automation and internal knowledge services.

  • Built a training data platform that improved chatbot intent detection and customer satisfaction.
  • Developed an NLP orchestrator for intent detection, search, and article recommendation models.
  • Built a PostgreSQL ltree-backed knowledge base data service.
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Fincite

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2018 - Nov 2019

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Led client-facing and internal fintech products, including digital asset management software, with distributed teams in Peru and Ukraine.

  • Worked with product owners to shape architecture and delivery.
  • Improved internal tooling, documentation, and hiring standards.
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Inka Labs

Software Engineer

Apr 2013 - May 2018

Arequipa, Peru

Built full-stack software for German clients across fintech and investment tooling, later taking on team lead responsibilities.

  • Delivered digital family office, commodity marketplace, and portfolio analytics products.
  • Collaborated with product and design teams during client demos and delivery.

Education

  • BSc Computer Science, Universidad Catolica San Pablo
  • MIT Global Startup Labs