About

I’m Benjamin Arce. I build AI systems for companies that move physical things (trucks, freight, inventory) and for the finance teams that have to account for them.

Right now I’m an AI Engineer at TBM Carriers, a logistics company. The work is an MCP server that exposes their enterprise platforms as one query surface, and then the harder half: getting that surface into the actual workflow of operations, finance, HR, billing, and planning. A connector nobody reaches for is just a well-typed API.

Before that I spent nine months on a six-country LATAM supply chain team at Advanced Sterilization Products, where the most useful thing I did was reopen a freight KPI that had already been signed off as healthy. It was healthy in aggregate and failing on 57.8% of individual orders. Averages are where problems go to hide.

The through-line is that I build tools that retire work rather than speed it up. Less manual assembly, fewer steps between a question and an answer, and fewer processes whose failure mode is producing a wrong number quietly. Half the bugs are still just me discovering the “obvious” assumption I never stated.

This site is a working log, not a brochure. I write the honest version: what I built, what broke, why it broke, what I changed, and what I’d do differently if I started again tomorrow.

Where I’ve been

  • Since 2026AI Engineer, TBM CarriersMCP servers and agent integration across the operating stack: operations, finance, HR, billing, planning.
  • Nov 2025 to Jul 2026Supply Chain Data & BI Analyst, Internship, Advanced Sterilization ProductsFreight, commercial, and logistics analytics across six-country LATAM operations.
  • Feb 2024 to Aug 2025Logistics & Operations Analyst, Internship, ROCA LogisticsCarrier billing audits and weekly reporting, rebuilt to run on their own.

Toolkit

  • AIMCP servers, Claude API, agent and tool integration, structured outputs, RAG, prompt engineering
  • DataAmazon QuickSight, Power BI (DAX), Python, SQL, Power Query, ETL, Supabase, Next.js
  • SystemsSAP, ERP and accounting platforms, TMS, fleet telematics, SharePoint, Power Automate

Studying

B.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering at Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, finishing 2027, currently at a 9.7/10 GPA. Lean Six Sigma White Belt, and Vice President of the Industrial Engineering student club. Spanish native, English C2.

Currently

  • Extending the MCP server at TBM Carriers past its first five platforms.
  • Building VoxTruck, an English platform for drivers, through its internal pilot.
  • Working toward a U.S. master’s: tightening the story, the work, and the proof.
  • Keeping this site honest: quick scan first, then the detail.