Software engineer in San Juan, PR. Harvard CS, class of 2017.
Most recent writing: Two numbers from VaultGemma.
Mostly Python, TypeScript, and Rust at the moment.
| Period | Role | Company | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 - present | Senior Associate | ZetaMinusOne | AWS, full stack tech advisory & development, ML & data-science |
| 2024 – 2026 | Software Engineer | Red Ventures | Education portfolio engineering, AWS, shared frontend platform |
| 2023 – 2024 | Software Engineer | MVMNT | Freight TMS frontend, TypeScript, Svelte, Tailwind, AWS Cognito |
| 2022 | Software Engineer | Pocus | PLG tooling, NestJS, Prisma, customer-facing APIs |
| 2021 – 2022 | Software Engineer | ChipBrain | AWS Transcribe pipelines, Django, ML-enabled product engineering |
| 2021 | Software Engineer | SoWork | Real-time collaboration, async infrastructure |
| 2021 – present | Founder | Pseudorandom Technologies | Freelance ML / full stack applications & consulting |
| 2017 – 2020 | Founding Engineer & CTO | Zoba | ML for urban mobility, React, Mapbox, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS |
| 2014 – 2016 | Productivity Tech Lead | Quorum | Full-stack Python / Django, political data tools |
| Technology Intern | Lockheed Martin | Defense & aerospace systems | |
| Business Technology Scholar | Deloitte | Enterprise digital transformation consulting |
Zoba, where I was founding engineer and CTO, was acquired by Marti in February 2024.
| Project | Notes |
|---|---|
| dpdap | Signed receipts and a black-box conformance probe for DP aggregate releases. Source private through v0.3. |
| modelreceipt | Receipts for DP claims on trained models and synthetic data. Early. |
| cs227r_Final_Project | DP-WHERE on Census data, final project for Cynthia Dwork's CS 227r at Harvard (2017). |
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