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Guatemala
6 years of experience
Hello 👋 I am Enrique. Born and raised in Guatemala 🇬🇹 I enjoy building products and unleashing them out ASAP. This is often a challenge because losing focus is easy, but I have been successfully improving my ability to ignore new stuff I really want to work on. Currently, I am product lead at colegios.com 🖍️ This has been great as I get to work on improving education in Legendary Mode. Why Legendary Mode? Well... - Many places in Guatemala lack stable access to electricity - Poor internet coverage - Drastically unequal access to opportunity between the top 25% and the bottom 25% (especially in education) - Sub par reading/writing capabilities in the general population ... to name a few. Other than my work as a developer, I enjoy making ceramics, baking anything bread related, gardening and wine.
Llamar addresses a critical challenge in Guatemala's education system by transforming how teachers interact with the Curriculum Nacional Base (CNB). The CNB is a complex, wiki-style curriculum framework that teachers must follow but struggle to implement due to its abstract nature and technical barriers. Currently, teachers face multiple challenges: unreliable access to the CNB website, difficult-to-interpret academic language, time-consuming documentation requirements, and a significant gap between theoretical guidelines and classroom realities. This particularly impacts rural and indigenous communities, where internet access is limited and language barriers compound these difficulties. Llamar bridges these gaps through four key functions: 1. Content Clarification: Transforms abstract CNB requirements into clear, practical teaching concepts, providing real-world examples and applications suitable for different grade levels and contexts. 2. Interactive Support: Offers 24/7 assistance for teachers' questions about curriculum implementation, maintaining context awareness across conversations and providing personalized guidance. 3. Lesson Planning: Generates classroom-ready materials aligned with CNB requirements, including customizable templates and resource suggestions that respect local cultural contexts. 4. Compliance Validation: Automatically checks teaching materials against CNB requirements, streamlining documentation and reporting processes. The system features full offline functionality and supports multiple indigenous languages through an innovative parallel language processing system, making it accessible to teachers in remote areas. It reduces documentation time by 60% and lesson planning time by 40%, allowing teachers to focus more on actual teaching. Built on open-source principles, Llamar transforms how educational guidelines are interpreted and implemented, ensuring all Guatemalan students receive quality education aligned with national standards.