From Santiago to New York City, a first-gen kid's path through Brooklyn, college, and a career in tech.
Santiago, Dominican Republic
Born and raised on the island. Grew up resourceful. You figure things out when you have to.
ROOTS ✓Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Moved to New York, settling in one of Brooklyn's most vibrant immigrant neighborhoods. The kind of place that teaches you to hustle.
NYC ✓Human Resource Administration
Supported 3 on-site software engineers by logging user-reported issues and deploying system patches to computers across New York City.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
First-gen college graduate with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems. Graduated Cum Laude with Dean's List honors.
CIS · CUM LAUDEDepartment of Health
Got hands-on experience building with VB.NET, ASP.NET, and SQL. The first time writing real code for a real system. That was it.
⚡ CAREER PIVOT DETECTEDSoftware Engineer, Verified Person
Built HR-XML integrations, rewrote a legacy VB.NET app to C# on .NET 2.0, and created utilities that cut data processing time from over an hour to seconds.
SHIPPED ✓Senior Software Engineer, Professional Examination Service
Built ProExam Write, a Rails SaaS platform for high-stakes certification exams. Migrated from SQL Server to PostgreSQL, created the open_xml Ruby gem, implemented real-time field-level encryption, and cut survey processing from 8 hours to 49 minutes.
▲ RANK UPSenior Software Engineer, CARMA
Managed AWS infrastructure for a Lucene-based NLP pipeline. Built a Sidekiq-powered newsletter system delivering 5,000 articles to 13,000 recipients in under 5 minutes.
SHIPPED ✓VP of Big Data Infrastructure, Accern
Moved from application code to owning all infrastructure. Built and scaled the data platform from MVP through Series A across AWS, GCP, Azure, and DigitalOcean. Saved $60K in compute with a custom GCP Scaler API and built "BB8," a Slack bot for on-demand deployments.
⚡ PIVOT ENGAGEDAVP, Senior Cloud Engineer, Allied World
Modernized engineering practices by building cloud-native IaC tooling with Terragrunt/Terraform. Created a custom CI/CD CodePipeline module that saved thousands of manual person-hours by automating plan on PR open and apply on merge.
SHIPPED ✓AVP, Lead Cloud Engineer, Allied World
Built and led a distributed cloud engineering team. Replaced AWS-only CI/CD with a Unified DevOps Framework powered by GitHub Actions, adopted company-wide. Achieved a 5x productivity increase over individual contributions.
▲ RANK UPAgentic DevOps Engineering
Building at the intersection of AI agents and DevOps. Agentic workflows, LLMs, and the next generation of intelligent infrastructure.
UNLOCKED ✓