Who is Luis Fernando Romero Calero?

Luis Fernando Romero Calero is an engineering lead with fifteen years of experience across Nike, British Airways, Booking.com, and Roche. He is Cursor (SpaceXAI) Regional Lead, Southeast Asia and runs Cursor community events and AI coding workshops in Southeast Asia.

Where is Luis Fernando Romero Calero based?

Luis Fernando Romero Calero is based in Thailand. He runs the Cursor community (SpaceXAI) across Southeast Asia, with workshops and community events in Thailand and Phnom Penh.

Cafe Cursor is a free community co-working day for people using Cursor. Events in Thailand and Phnom Penh, with Cursor credits and drinks at most of them.

What are the AI workshops?

AI workshops are sessions on Cursor, Claude Code, and how a team starts shipping with them, organized by Luis Fernando Romero Calero. Offerings include private team workshops and free community events such as Cafe Cursor and Cursor from Zero.

How to book AI workshops in Southeast Asia?

Contact Luis Fernando Romero Calero via email at luisfer.romero.calero@gmail.com, through LinkedIn, or register for upcoming events on Luma at lu.ma/cursor-bangkok-thailand.

Janaru is a save-game system for AI coding sessions. It uses trigger words like savegame, loadgame, and shipit to maintain small journal files that help future agent sessions resume without re-explanation.

Luis Fernando Romero Calero | Engineering Lead

Hola, I am Luis Fernando Romero Calero.

When I was 11, I created my first entrepreneurial project, a monthly newspaper issue and my classmates were my ‘employees’.

I have been creating projects ever since, most recently rian gèng, an app to learn Thai the way Thais speak it, and Authentic Timer, a calm corner of the Internet for gentle productivity.

As a Software Engineer and Architect, I have worked for 15 years in places like Nike, Booking.com or British Airways. I have been also involved in the AI arena, and I am the Cursor/SpaceXAI Ambassador for Thailand and the whole ASEAN, at cursorthailand.com.

I live in Bangkok and work a lot from Singapore, where my company is based.

Write to me at , book a call, or read my resume.

Cursor / SpaceXAI Community

I started the Thailand chapter from zero, with Cafe Cursor, Cursor from Zero and Cursor Sunday, in Bangkok and Phnom Penh. Most events have around a hundred people. I am now the SpaceXAI Ambassador and Regional Lead for ASEAN.

See the workshops, the chapter site at cursorthailand.com, or the next event on Luma.

Cursor Sunday Bangkok Q&A with Nick Miller at The Decaf

Luis Fernando Romero Calero teaching at Cafe Cursor Phnom Penh

Work

Cursor Community (SpaceXAI)
Nov 2025 to present
ASEAN Regional Lead. Shared with Agrim Singh and Sherry Jiang.
- Started the Thailand chapter from zero and ran nine events across Bangkok and Phnom Penh (Cursor from Zero, Cafe Cursor, Cursor Sunday), averaging over 100 attendees.
- Senior engineers and engineering managers from Europe and Asia picked up Cursor after attending, and took it into their own teams.
- Built cursorthailand.com, now the Evergreen boilerplate used by 20 country chapters.
- Support neighbouring chapters, including Cambodia and Myanmar, on format and first events.
Independent consulting
Apr 2025 to present
Engineering lead and AI adoption. Own company, incorporated in Singapore.
DoneQuote Superagent Skills Union Dripdrop
- Overlab, on DoneQuote. Netherlands, Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Engineering lead on an AI quoting product, across foundations, user experience and full-stack work.
- Dripdrop. Sweden, Jan 2026 to Jul 2026. Built a station-management application for a water operator covering documents, maintenance, revision approvals and Zeus SCADA, on Next.js, TypeScript and Supabase.
- Skills Union. Singapore, Mar 2026 to Jun 2026. Technical Lead. Built the NTU learning platform covering students, teachers and coaches across classes, assignments and progress, plus a global skills taxonomy tool.
- Superagent. Singapore, Nov 2025 to Feb 2026. Technical Lead. Rebuilt an AI rental-matching brokerage end to end, frontend, backend and database, and owned the product decisions including branding and the full user experience. The site is live.
British Airways
Jan 2025 to Apr 2025
Full-stack Development Consultant. London, remote.
- Led the frontend on a fleet-management application for aircraft scheduling and runway optimisation, in React and TypeScript.
- Ran interface audits with the business stakeholders and got the recommended changes approved and shipped.
- Left to relocate to Asia.
Garaje de Ideas and Roche
Mar 2024 to Jun 2024
Tech Lead. Madrid and Basel, remote.
- Wrote the proof of concept for moving the Navify marketplace from Angular to Next.js. The team built the migration from it.
Nike
Dec 2021 to Apr 2023
Solution Architect, Marketplace and Automation. Hilversum, Netherlands. Joined through Cognizant, then full-time.
- Led a full-stack team on white-label storefronts for sports retail vendors and on internal supply-chain applications. Shipped to five Asian countries in 2022.
- Scoped pre-release requirements coming from headquarters in Oregon against what the European teams could deliver, and said no to what would not fit.
- Harmonised the interface across EMEA and North America.
Cognizant Benelux
Jan 2021 to Feb 2022
Senior Software Engineer. Amsterdam. Clients: Booking.com and Nike.
- At Booking.com, Mar 2021 to Oct 2021. Built the financial portal for invoicing and accounting.
- Brought new developers into the team and mentored them, and ran workshops across the account.
Contract engineering
May 2015 to Dec 2020
Senior frontend and full-stack. Remote, clients in the UK, Germany and Australia.
- Deloitte, London. Led the frontend on a government data import and export tool. React, Node.js, Neo4j.
- ClearBank, London. Built the platform frontend in Vue.js for a new UK clearing bank.
- Cision and Prime Research, Mainz. Led the frontend on media-intelligence charting, in React.
- Other engagements with McKinsey and Accenture, and with Tata, Doctorly, Burnet Institute, Foodspring, HeavenHR, Modomoto and Nowtilus.
Startups in Germany
Jun 2012 to Apr 2015
First engineering roles.
- azeti. Aug 2013 to Apr 2015. Software Developer at an IoT startup working in close partnership with Cisco. Built the Social Sensor Cloud for sensor data and the Azeti Lab Android app.
- Suitepad. Sep 2012 to Aug 2013. Founding engineer, second on the team. Four people when I joined, over 25 and clients in 15 countries when I left.
- i/Pol, Heilbronn. Jun 2012 to Sep 2012. Worked on an iOS and Android app for following the Bundesliga, built for Der Spiegel.

The full résumé has the details, and you can also download it as a PDF.

Projects2024 to 2026

The rian gèng home page: a headline, Learn Thai as Thais speak it, and the waitlist form beside a grid of comic panels

Ubon
Scanner for React, Next.js, Vue and Python projects: hardcoded secrets, broken links, risky eval patterns, accessibility misses and dependency holes.
Janaru
Save-game system for AI coding sessions, so a later session resumes without a full re-explanation.
mesen
Split-screen journal that rewrites an entry through literary voices and returns prose plus one question.
Clean Serve
Notes on prompting and how I actually write code with AI.
Rosemary.js
A graph of notes for JavaScript. Fuzzy search, structural search, and an optional LLM layer if you want one.