The Founder

I'm Sergio Arath Guzman — a first-generation Latino engineer who started with circuits and soldering irons before ever writing a line of code. That hardware-first background is why I think about problems differently than most software people. When I look at a system, I see the physical constraints, the signal flow, the failure modes. That instinct doesn't go away just because you switch to Python.

My path hasn't been linear. I studied electronic systems, moved into civil engineering design, and I'm currently finishing a degree in Industrial Engineering at Texas State University. Each jump happened the same way — I'd get deep enough into a field to see the inefficiencies no one was fixing, and the curiosity would pull me toward the tools that could fix them.

The turning point was working on a power engineering team building schematics for electrical substations. The work was tedious, the processes were manual, and the team was stuck — not because they lacked talent, but because red tape and “that's how we've always done it” had calcified into the workflow. I couldn't build the tools to fix it there. But I couldn't stop seeing the same patterns everywhere: hours burned on work that a well-designed system could eliminate.

That frustration became Arath Industries. I started building the tools I wished existed — an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered platform that monitors 150+ government agency portals so civil engineering firms don't have to do it manually. A dashboard that maps Texas's water crisis across 254 counties so decision-makers can see the problem instead of reading spreadsheets. A wireless sensor system that puts machine learning on a $30 microcontroller so a university lab doesn't need a $7,000 data acquisition rig.

I work part-time as a Civil Engineering Designer while studying full-time and building these tools on the side. The range is the point — hardware, software, data, design, infrastructure. Real problems don't fit neatly into one discipline, and neither do the solutions.

When I'm not building, I'm probably thinking about building something else.