Ricardo Mejia · Lead AI Software Engineer
I lead AI innovation and internal tools at WebstaurantStore. I also co-founded WingAI, an AI dating assistant with 2M+ downloads and seven-figure ARR.
2M+
downloads
WingAI · iOS + Android
4.8★
average rating
~110K ratings
1B+
organic views
creator + UGC content
5K+
receipts a day
ExpensePro
Featured · Co-founder, 2023–present
An AI dating assistant that helps people start better conversations. Its openers pull roughly 2.5× the replies of a typical first message. I co-founded it, built the app in React Native, and led product, AI, monetization, and growth from launch to 2M+ downloads.
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WebstaurantStore · Sept 2021–present
I lead the AI-innovation side of my team: finding business processes worth automating, then designing and shipping the internal products that automate them. I make the architecture calls, lead the developers, work with infra and platform teams, and present the results to senior technology leadership. Projects go from idea to prototype to production, and they stay in production.
Internal AI platform
An AI platform that generates product and catalog imagery and marketing assets. I set the architecture, infrastructure, and dev strategy, then built it end to end, integrating with the company’s custom backend and database without depending on those teams to ship.
Enterprise mobile app
An expense platform processing 5,000+ receipts a day. I led the team and owned the architecture.
WingAI · Internal tools
Scaling WingAI took more than the app itself. I built the operational layer underneath it: the system that pays creators and catches fraud, and the platform that runs every push, email, and SMS campaign.
Creator payouts & fraud detection
Tracks posts across five platforms, calculates creator payouts against a weekly budget, and screens for duplicate accounts and bots before a payout goes out.
Notification platform · public beta
Runs WingAI's push, email, and SMS campaigns across 300K+ devices. Built as a multi-tenant SaaS with Stripe billing, a published SDK, and AI-personalized messaging, now in public beta as a standalone product.
exponotify.com →I’m a product engineer who happens to lead. I like ambiguous problems, the kind where the spec doesn’t exist yet, and I like being the person who ships the first version and then the tenth. At WebstaurantStore that means internal AI platforms. At WingAI it meant everything from the React Native app to the subscription funnel to the creator program behind a billion organic views.
React · React Native / Expo · TypeScript · Next.js · Node · Tailwind · Firebase · Supabase · Vercel · Railway · MinIO · Azure DevOps
I’m open to conversations about AI engineering leadership and founding-engineer roles.