About Me

I obtained both a B.S. in CS focusing on Human-Computer Interaction and an M.S. in CS focusing on Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University.

Experience

• Graduate Fellow @ Regulation, Evaluation and Governance Lab, Stanford Law School. 2021-Present
  • Worked and lead computer vision and NLP projects, including:
    • “Improving Case Adjudication with Natural Language Processing: Periodic Entitlement Review at the Department of Labor”
    • “Shortcomings of the Word Embeddings Bias Framework”
    • “Detecting Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations from Satellite Images with Deep Learning”
• Software Engineering Intern @ Hallow, Inc. Summer 2021
  • Worked on the foundational software infrastructure for language internationalization to expand to multiple languages, focusing on iOS. Other responsibilities: QA testing and feature tracking.
• Technical Research Assistant @ Stanford Internet Observatory, Stanford University. Summer 2020
  • Engineer for the Data Gathering and Analysis Portal (DGAP) used during the 2020 Election Integrity Partnership for live social media analysis. Platform continues to be used during election years.
• Lead Software Developer @ Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. Summer 2020
  • Software engineer for a mathematical logic instruction web application. Helped on-board and train interns unfamiliar with large-scale software development, large code bases, and version control.
• Software Developer @ Adobe, Inc. Summer 2019
  • Design Systems team for Adobe Xd. Focused on improving the features of the components elements and developed + shipped a new feature for UX design in Adobe Xd.
• Software Engineering Intern @ Apple, Inc. Summer 2018
  • Apple Health + Apple Watch team. Worked on developing internal first party app health experiences for iOS and watchOS devices.
• Lead Instructor @ CODeLLA Summer 2017
  • CODeLLA’s 8 week cohort serving underprivileged middle school girls with 21st century skills. Taught design thinking and coding for girls to build their own apps.
• Stanford Summer Engineering Academy, Stanford University Summer 2016
  • Spent a month exploring the different fields of engineering with +16 professors.
• iOS Engineer @ Faceplay, Inc. (now Magic Studio, Inc.) Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
  • Worked remotely with a small team to develop different iOS apps.
  • InstaStory (+300K downloads)
  • PokéLocator (#4 Navigation Apps on App Store’s Top Charts)
  • Voicify (Vodafone U.K. Best New Apps in July 2016)
• Indie iOS Developer Jun 2014 - Present
  • Self-taught iOS Developer. Created a variety of iOS projects.
  • Some of the iOS Apps include: C.U.B.E., COLOR5, SPUTNIK, CloudCamera (1st place overall winner MangoHacks 2017).

Skills

VSCode

Xcode

IntelliJ IDEA

Unity

Sketch

Adobe XD

Blender

Python

Swift

JavaScript

Objective-C

C#

C++

C

Numpy

Pandas

Pytorch

Version Control – Git/Subversion

AWS/GCP

Software Engineering

Software Development

iOS/watchOS/macOS Development

Web App Development

Design Thinking

Product Management

Entrepreneurship

Activities

• Stanford Triathlon Team
• Society of American Magicians
• Silicon Valley Secret Magic Garage Member
• International Brotherhood of Magicians
• Have co-taught magic classes at Google and Stanford University

Fellowships & Awards

• Zephyr Institute Summer 2022 Fellow, A Seminar on Technology, Apocalypse, and Revolution.
• Hertog Institute Summer 2022 Fellow, Living with Artificial Intelligence Seminar.
• Thomistic Institute Fellow 2021, Philosophy and Natural Science Symposium.
• First Principles Summer Philosophy Scholar 2020, Witherspoon Institute at Princeton University
• Civitas Dei Fellow 2020, Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception with the Thomistic Institute
• Junior Fellow Winter 2020, Zephyr Institute
• Nike & Elle Magazine Mexican Women 2018
• Premio Nacional de la Juventud 2017 Finalist (Mexico’s National Youth Award)
• Facebook Developers Conference F8 2017 Scholarship Recipient
• Poster Child for Apple’s Inclusion and Diversity: Creating Opportunities Campaign
• Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference Scholar 2015 and 2016
• The Miami Herald Digital Media Silver Knight Award 2016
• NCWIT National Aspirations in Computing Award Runner-up
• 2016 Congressional Achievement in Coding Excellence

As seen on…

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Entrepreneur Magazine	The Miami Herald	Univision
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