About Me

I'm Carlos. A designer who builds things with a purpose.

Over the last 10+ years, I've designed, led, and launched products at the intersection of design, technology, and (recently) climate action.

My journey as a designer goes back to my teenage years, digitizing old graffitis in Photoshop. Without knowing it, a mindset started growing then: find a purpose, learn how to do it.I became a self-taught designer. Spent a couple of years training and nurturing from different experiences: from graphic design, branding and video editing to UX/UI, a splash of frontend development and a lot of doing, doing and doing. I became a jack of all trades, but always looking for making an impact. To meaningfully change.

Since 2022, I've been leading product design at the Open Earth Foundation, developing open-source digital tools to accelerate climate action. In 2025, I became Head of Impact, ensuring our tools contribute to real-world emissions reductions and climate strategy implementation across 50+ cities in Latin America.

I now also have my own project ("Rediseñar"), a space where I keep building tools for citizen and climate action against environmental and social crisis in Argentina. My purpose is to collaborate and constantly to share how design goes beyond definitions, users and aesthetics. It's a powerful tool we have for social change.

10+
Years designing
50+
Cities served
5
Climate tools launched
$3M+
Won in grants

Currently

Head of Impact and Lead Product Designer

2022 – Present

Leading product design and impact strategy for climate tech tools at Open Earth Foundation. Designing systems that help cities and organizations measure, plan, and act on climate change.

Open Earth Foundation

Selected Projects

2022-2024Open Earth Foundation50+ Brazilian cities

CityCatalyst: Building Climate Tools That Actually Get Used

Product Design Lead
An open-source platform that helps cities generate GHG inventories, assess climate risks, and prioritize actions. Reduced inventory drafting time from 6-12 months to under 10 minutes.
ReactTypeScriptData VisualizationReplitFigma
2024-PresentIndependent600+ community members

Rediseñar: A Community to Rethink How We Design Everything

Founder & Editor
A platform and community exploring how we can redesign systems, habits, and imaginaries for a livable future. Raw, simple, and provocative climate communications.
Community BuildingContent StrategySocial Media
2023-2024Open Earth FoundationMulti-country deployment

Rapid Climate Risk Assessment: A Faster Way to Understand What's Coming

Product Designer + Project Coordinator + UX Engineer
A web-based tool that generates first-pass risk profiles for cities in under 5 minutes, combining local data, future scenarios, and expert frameworks through a simple interface.
Data VisualizationClimate Science APIsReactGIS
2023-2024Open Earth Foundation20+ city action plans

High-Impact Actions Prioritizer: Turning Plans into What Actually Matters

Product Designer
A lightweight tool that ranks climate actions based on their potential impact using expert scoring, local conditions, and AI reasoning to help cities prioritize effectively.
AI/MLLLMsReactData Analysis

Notes & Accolades

Speaker at "CCI25 – Conferencia Climática Internacional 2025"

2025

Guest speaker and panelist at "Artificial Intelligence (AI): Challenges and Opportunities for AI and City-led Climate Action" and pitched at GCoM Innovate4Cities Marketplace

Global Covenant of Mayors, ICLEI and Córdoba Government

Winner at Córdoba Climate Hackaton

2025

Won 1 out of 2 money prizes to develop a local resilience project in collaboration with local schools

Córdoba Municipality

CityCatalyst – Selected Project at LIFT Data

2025

CityCatalyst got drafted as one of the projects selected to participate of LIFT Data Lab 2025

LIFT Data Brazil

Local Leader @ Interaction Design Foundation

2024 – Present

Invited to be the local community leader at Córdoba IxDF Chapter

IxDF – Interaction Design Foundation

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Let's connect

Interested in collaborating, creating something together or just want to say hi? Feel free to reach out!

~0.05g of CO2

Generated per visit. This portfolio is built with environmental consciousness and achieved the highest rating (A+) on WebsiteCarbon, being more efficient than 95% of websites globally.