Juan Andrés Miguel
University of Pennsylvania
Penn Engineering
Camino de Santiago
Camino de Santiago
Penn Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Penn Engineering
Camino de Santiago
University of Pennsylvania
Penn Engineering
Camino de Santiago
Camino de Santiago
Penn Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Penn Engineering
Camino de Santiago

About Me

El Salvador flagxUniversity of Pennsylvania logo

I grew up in El Salvador and now study Systems Engineering at Penn, with a minor in Computer Science (class of 2028).

I co-founded Navega Technologies, where we built Atlas — an AI platform that manages the full lifecycle of travel itineraries for agencies. Before that and alongside it, I've worked across product, strategy, and research, mostly on tools that make complicated processes easier to run.

Off the laptop: squash, wakeboarding, and the Camino de Santiago — twice. Any spare time goes to reading theology and investing in high-beta ventures.

Experience

Product Management Intern

Applaudo Studios logoApplaudo Studios
Jun 2026 – Present
  • Mapped demand planning for a US distribution client spanning 1,300+ SKUs through 2-3 weekly stakeholder sessions alongside the lead PM.
  • Scoped an AI forecasting feature that automates demand planning from historical order data to reduce over- and under-stocking without added headcount.
Product DiscoveryDemand PlanningAI Forecasting
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
  • Ran 10+ primary interviews with importers, wholesalers, and retailers for a $100M PE fund, mapping the US supply chain for Latin American food and beverage products.
  • Prioritized 12+ acquisition targets across three verticals, translating interview signals and self-built DCF/LBO models into a thesis adopted into the fund's deal pipeline.
Primary ResearchDCF/LBO ModelingInvestment Thesis

Operations Intern

Intradeco logoIntradeco
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023
  • Analyzed meter readings across 500+ spinning, weaving, and dyeing machines with the Lean Six Sigma team, identifying a power factor correction that cut plant electrical costs 15%.
  • Mapped warehouse flow for 800+ raw materials and helped replace manual counts with a barcode-scanning inventory database, nearly eliminating shortage occurrences.
OperationsLean Six SigmaInventory Systems

Projects & Research

Navega Technologies Ltd

Active

Co-Founder & Head of Product

  • Led development of Atlas, an AI itinerary lifecycle platform for travel agencies, cutting client-facing itinerary production from 6-8 hours to 8 minutes.
  • Led weekly working sessions with 23 travel agents to map manual workflows and prioritize the roadmap from observed operational pain points.
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Machine Learning Researcher

Dec 2025 – June 2026

University of Pennsylvania

  • Researched how the Linux scheduler handles time-critical decisions and how peer labs tackle ML inference latency in scheduling for the LDOS Lab, becoming the team's reference on competing approaches.
  • Benchmarked competing labs' solutions into comparative deliverables the team adopted to guide its implementation of learned resource-management policies.
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Recruiting Tools

Active

Resume Tailor + Outreach Helper

  • Tailors my resume to any job in seconds: paste a URL, Claude rewrites the bullets to match the role, patches the DOCX without touching formatting, and opens it in Word.
  • Drafts personalized LinkedIn outreach in my voice, decides InMail vs. free connection, and logs every contact to my recruiting tracker.
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Let's build.

Interested in product, strategy, and startup teams building things that matter.

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