About
Jorge Luis Buffa Mongelós · Director of Technology and Digital Transformation
A director with 25 years of experience, currently heading two departments at PRANA (Grupo Cartes): Web Development and New Technologies, and Digital Media. My work is to bring together three dimensions that rarely live in the same role: leading teams, design judgement, and the technical ability to build what gets decided.
I was part of the transformation of a five-person in-house team into an established agency in the Paraguayan market, and my role grew with that process: from designer to director. Leading a technical area well requires understanding the work being led; that is why I still build.
I designed and built Desk, the internal platform now used by 60 people at the agency, which replaced Monday.com and absorbed HR management. And I keep projects of my own where I test technology before bringing it to work, such as DoReSol, a music-learning platform I built end to end.
Self-taught since age 12, when I learned to program in BASIC. I went through every technological shift of the last 25 years by adopting it, not resisting it: from editorial design to Flash, from Flash to full-stack development, and today to integrating AI into the way we work.
Stack
PHP 8 MySQL / MariaDB Apache REST APIs · OAuth 2.0 HTML5 · CSS · JavaScript Alpine.js Claude Code Ollama · Python/Flask Google Workspace Adobe CS UI / UX Google · Meta · TikTok Ads Programmatic
Education
Systems Analysis — Universidad Americana · in progress
Graphic Design — Universidad Católica de Asunción · 3 years (1996–2001)
Marketing — Universidad Autónoma de Asunción · 1 year
Italian — acquired by immersion during a year living in Italy (2002)
English — Colegio Angloamericano
Portuguese — Centro de Estudios Brasileños
Languages
Spanish — native
Italian — advanced
English — intermediate
Portuguese — reading