Andrés Castañaza
Andrés Castañaza

Senior Product Manager - Fraud, Compliance, AI Automation & Platform Systems

Actively looking · Member since 17 Jun 2026
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Location
Costa Rica
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Unspecified
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Full Time
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About

Professional summary

I am a senior product manager and full-stack founder with experience across fraud, risk investigations, account security, billing, customer operations, platform MVPs, and AI-assisted automation. I have built 0->1 digital products for government, civic tech, beauty and wellness, and marketplace-style workflows, and I enjoy turning ambiguous operational problems into scalable tools and customer experiences.

My background includes work at Amazon and AWS, where I handled billing, technical account management, and account security/risk investigations. In those roles, I worked in high-trust environments that required strong judgment, confidentiality, data security awareness, and clear communication with customers, internal teams, and leadership.

I have also founded and led multiple products and ventures, including AI-driven and civic-tech initiatives. I have designed onboarding flows, dashboards, admin tools, checkout experiences, and operational systems that reduce manual work and improve repeatability for teams and users.

A major theme in my work is cross-functional leadership. I have partnered with engineering, operations, government stakeholders, media, universities, vendors, and founders to translate complex needs into practical product decisions. I am comfortable working asynchronously and communicating clearly in written form.

I am especially interested in fraud and compliance product work, where risk controls, automation, stakeholder alignment, UX, and operational scalability need to evolve together. I bring a product mindset that balances user needs, business goals, and operational realities.

I am based in Costa Rica and work fluently in Spanish and English. I am open to remote opportunities where I can contribute product strategy, execution, and systems thinking to high-impact teams.

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Experience

Career history

Founder & AI Product Lead LuVelle AI

Built and launched MVP flows across social channels, onboarding, checkout, provider operations, and customer activation; designed AI agent workflows; owned roadmap, positioning, GTM experiments, and stakeholder narratives.

Founder & Civic Tech Product Architect Smarter Elections / Voto Inteligente

Led 0->1 product creation for voter education and issue-based matching; designed data models; integrated AI-assisted analysis and educational flows; built partnerships with media, ministries, civic organizations, and universities.

Founder & Strategic Mentor Startup Founders: The Blueprint

Created frameworks for product-market fit, validation, storytelling, and traction; coached technical students and early founders through MVP definition and execution.

Operations Manager / Customer Success Manager GoFeria / GoPass

Managed operations, customer success, staffing, stakeholder communication, vendor relationships, budgets, and operational policies; monitored KPIs and improved customer experience and retention.

Billing & Technical Account Management Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Served as customer advocate for AWS billing and technical account needs; gathered feedback, escalated trends, supported launches and events, and translated operational issues into improvements.

Account Security / Risk Investigations Specialist Amazon

Investigated suspicious activity, fraud patterns, account-change risks, password escalations, vendor chargeback disputes, and unknown-charge workflows; created process improvements and SOPs.

Product Owner Ministerio de Salud de Costa Rica - Denuncia Salud

Sold, designed, and launched a mobile/web complaint system; created UX flows, website, app, and operational process; trained ministry teams on backup, classification, follow-up, and routing.

Founder / Product Owner Mobile Ease S.A.

Founded a mobile app development company; hired and coordinated a small team; delivered mobile/web products; managed product discovery, UX, delivery, and client relationships.

Fixed Asset Accounting / Process Improvement Intel

Supported finance/accounting operations, partner communication, and business process improvements in a multinational shared-services environment.

Education

Learning history

Universidad Estatal a Distancia

Bachelor's degree coursework in Systems Engineering

Coursework in systems engineering.

Harvard Innovation Labs

Turning Products into Companies

Program focused on product-to-company development.

INCAE Business School

Business Strategy

Business strategy studies.

Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje

Web Developer and Designer

Training in web development and design.

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