I'm a second generation Mexican American and the first in my family to attend college. In high school, I earned a scholarship to run for UC Berkeley's Track and Field team after running a 4:12 mile. After college, I worked in tech sales in the ML/AI space for two years. I enjoyed my time in tech sales but ultimately felt like my passion was coding and building technology.

After my time in tech sales, I enrolled in App Academy's 6 month full stack software engineering bootcamp where I spent over 1000 hours learning how to build beautiful and intuitive web applications. I then worked at Appen for a year as a full stack software engineer where I worked on a data labeling platform used by the world's best Machine Learning and AI teams to label their data with high accuracy.

Things I enjoy doing outside of coding include going on runs, playing guitar, playing soccer, playing basketball, watching soccer, and eating my moms amazing mexican dishes 🙂