Design first
More than 15 years in graphic design and web development. An interface is judged by whether someone unfamiliar can finish the task.
About the founder
Johnny Santiago Valdez Calderon.
Dominican technology entrepreneur based in Santo Domingo. Founder of Bytewonders, which builds and runs its own software for the Dominican Republic and the United States.
15+ years design & web
4+ years SaaS & AI
Santo Domingo, DR
Background
Fifteen years building, four years in AI.
The design years came first, and they left a habit: the work still tends to start at the interface and move inward, rather than the other way around.
Product, not projects
Bytewonders builds and operates its own platforms instead of selling development hours. Support tickets come to the same team that wrote the code.
Applied AI
More than 4 years building SaaS platforms and AI integrations, with people kept in the loop for judgment calls.
Two markets
The Dominican products and the US products share people and infrastructure, so every release has to hold up against two sets of expectations before it ships.
Universidad APEC
Director of Operations, Juricentro Multiservicios
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
The work
Five products, two markets.
Two serve the Dominican Republic, two serve families in the United States, and one is the software that runs the business.
ChatLeyes
AI-assisted legal information for the Dominican Republic, grounded in more than 180,000 official documents and explained in everyday language.
Legal AI · Dominican RepublicNotifacto
Compares how different Dominican media outlets cover the same story, making visible what each version highlights or leaves out.
Media intelligenceEasyTextNow & Photo Print Lab
Communication services helping families in the United States stay connected with incarcerated loved ones.
Messaging · United StatesCRM Platform
Lead, pipeline, compliance and advertising workflows for teams that outgrew spreadsheets.
Business softwareGet in touch
Working on something worth building?
For product, partnership or speaking enquiries, write directly.
jvaldez@bytewonders.com jsvaldez.com · LinkedIn · GitHub