From Santiago to New York City, a first-gen kid's path through Brooklyn, college, and a career in tech.
Santiago, Dominican Republic
Born in Santiago. Left the island at 5 years old.
ROOTS ✓Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Landed in one of Brooklyn's most vibrant immigrant neighborhoods. Grew up resourceful. You learn to figure things out when you have to. 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 ✓