A short biography.
Dominican engineer based in Toronto. Spent my teens going pro at Counter-Strike and Fortnite, tried finance briefly, then learned to code at a kitchen table.
Now focused on applied AI systems and backend product engineering: retrieval, agents, model evaluation, data-heavy workflows, and the unglamorous plumbing that makes models useful. Outside the screen: BJJ blue belt, snowboarding, surfing, building silly things.
Experience
Applied ML Engineer, TI Automotive
Polymer-blend recommendation system from OEM specs: forward modeling, feature engineering, uncertainty, and model-based search.
Full-stack Software Engineer, Xello
Major contributor to "The Real Game" — a career-exploration tool used by millions of students.
Lead Software Developer, Centennial OER Lab
Led engineering on open educational tools for 12k+ students. Type-safe, small team, high leverage.
SDE II, Exactera
Implemented ML-powered vector search at scale.
Full-Stack Developer, 305 Global Marketing
Multi-tenant e-commerce platform + ops dashboard on Next.js + AWS + Postgres + Mongo.
Education
Graduated with High Honours; highest GPA in the Software Engineering Technology AI cohort.
Stack
- Languages
- TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Frontend
- React, Next.js, Astro, Tailwind, Angular
- Backend
- Node, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, FastAPI, tokio
- Infra
- Vercel, AWS, Docker, GH Actions, Terraform
- ML
- PyTorch, Hugging Face, LoRA, fine-tuning, RL