A small digital apartment for a builder who moved from mining engineering into AI. Each project is a plant, each discipline a room, each visit tends something already growing.
Open-pit optimization, scheduling, applied research. Three curated, two sealed.
· 9 2Where the AI work happens — agents, memory, tools, small inference. Four open, five sealed.
· 3 3Personal curiosities in health, longevity and self-tracking. All sealed.
The west-facing room. Work here concerns open-pit mine planning — pit optimization, production scheduling, cut-off strategy and resource estimation. Five plants live on this side: stewardship of the GEOVIA Whittle portfolio, a 3DEXPERIENCE mine-planning project, the Ceiba strategic-planning framework, and two private software siblings, Ginkgo and Bonsai. Most of it is pressed next to a paper in the Herbarium.
Application-portfolio stewardship of GEOVIA Whittle, the industry standard for strategic open-pit mine planning. Product definition, roadmap and technical validation of pit optimization, scheduling and NPV-driven strategy at global scale.
Application-portfolio work on a cloud-native mine-planning solution on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform — pit optimisation, pushback sequencing and scheduling optimisation.
Strategic mine-planning framework combining Whittle with Simulia Isight and Process Composer. Robust design, Monte Carlo simulation and ML to evaluate production scales, capital, phase generation and sequencing — across open pit, block caving and sublevel stoping.
Process-integration and design-exploration studio. Tools to design, simulate and analyze complex decisions under uncertainty in mining and industrial systems. The software sibling of Ceiba.
Project-portfolio planner with roadmap, backlog, analytics and reports. A desktop app that embodies the craft of application-portfolio management.
The north-facing room, brighter and more experimental. Work here concerns agents, tools, memory, orchestration and small inference — software built with and around AI. Nine plants: four on the open wall, five kept in the flat files.
A shared brain for multi-agent AI. Unifies search, memory and knowledge into one living space where several assistants work on the same base.
Persistent memory for code agents. Decisions and context survive across sessions instead of starting from scratch every time.
A security and privacy layer for code agents. Real-time protection over bash, files and the web.
An intelligent document generator. Turns ideas and data into several ready-to-share formats.
A living, cross-referenced wiki maintained from daily interactions.
A PTE Academic practice companion with AI-based scoring, installable from the browser.
A visual simulation interface to observe, orchestrate and study multi-agent interaction.
A local-first presentation generator. Turns text and ideas into export-ready slides without leaving the machine.
Fully local voice-to-voice translation for private multilingual conversations.
The sunlit annex, kept warmer. Personal curiosities — health, longevity, genomics, biometrics and self-tracking, plus the occasional small experiment built for the apartment itself. Explorations, not products. Three plants for now, all sealed. Future work in this space lands here by default.
Notes and research toward a personalised health assistant — genetics, lab indicators, wearables, nutrition and supplementation — designed from the start to run locally and securely.
A native iOS companion that reads signals from wearables and a smart scale, and turns them into personalised reports in real time. On-device first, built to grow slowly and endure.
A small computer-vision experiment that detects and identifies which cat is which from a home camera feed. Built to learn the residents of the apartment.
A documented collection of 14 specimens — papers, articles and conference talks in strategic open-pit mine-planning optimization, spanning 2016 to 2025. Each specimen is pressed next to the plant it grew from: Eucalyptus, Magnolia or Ceiba.
Poblete, C.
Poblete, C., González, J.
Hill, S., Poblete, C.
Poblete, C., Abouaali, M.
Bai, V., Hill, S., Place, D., Poblete, C., Rudge, I.
Hill, S., Bai, V., Place, D., Rudge, I., Poblete, C.
Smith, R., Faramarzi, F., Poblete, C.
Smith, R., Das, R., Poblete, C., Van der Hou, N.
Villa, D., Poblete, C.
Contador, E., Poblete, C.
Maldonado, E., Poblete, C., Villa, D., Ludwicki, C.
Miranda, F., Poblete, C.
Poblete, C., González, M., Romero, J., Fuentes, D.
Poblete, C., González, M., Romero, J., Fuentes, D., Abdrashitova, O.
14 specimens · pressed and labelled →
Mining engineer who tied his entire career to the technology and software side of mining. What started as planning open pits became, over fifteen years, a long study of how complex systems can be modelled, optimised and decided under uncertainty — first hands-on as a strategic mine planner, then as the technical voice behind the software other planners use.
What's alive right now. A day-job stewarding strategic mine-planning software, and a parallel workshop where I treat AI as a material to build with: multi-agent systems with shared memory, and small tools that sit close to daily practice.
What carries the work. Less the domain, more the way of looking at it. The same instinct — frame the problem, model the uncertainty, decide what's worth optimising — moves with me from mines to teams, to processes, to home, to health.
For published work — papers, articles and talks — see the Herbarium. For roles, companies and timeline, LinkedIn is the live record.